Example sentences of "[noun sg] with [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have gone from being the bread basket of Central America to being its basket case ; an international beggar with the largest per capita foreign debt in Latin America . |
| 2 | Often schoolchildren aged in their early teens , who struggle through a reading test with a 15 per cent error rate , reduce errors to 2 per cent and increase confidence visibly on first meeting a rule-based spelling . |
| 3 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 4 | Calculate the issue price of a new two-year bond with a 10 per cent coupon . |
| 5 | This is the price that a bond with a 9 per cent YTM will have on the next coupon payment date . |
| 6 | Consider a UK government bond with a 9.25 per cent coupon . |
| 7 | For example , our hypothetical Phillips curve shows that a 4 per cent per annum wage increase ( equivalent to 2 per cent inflation with a 2 per cent productivity growth ) is associated with a 3 per cent unemployment rate , and that a 9 per cent annum wage increase ( equivalent to 7 per cent inflation ) is associated with a 2 per cent unemployment rate . |
| 8 | LASMO remains as operator of this block with a 33.85 per cent interest . |
| 9 | I note that the biggest single beneficiary is Scottish Opera with a 2.3 per cent increase for the coming year ; likewise , Scottish Ballet attracts the same increase . |
| 10 | Well , here we go into our first home game of the new season with a 100 per cent record so far in Division Three . |
| 11 | In principle , mergers can be referred to the MMC if they will create a firm with a 25 per cent market share or if they involve assets of over 30 million . |
| 12 | After the treatments , beauty products will be available at the clinic with a 15 per cent discount . |
| 13 | Arsenic is very volatile and was unobtainable by ancient smelting techniques , but arsenic minerals commonly occur in association with copper ores and an alloy with a few per cent can be obtained by smelting these . |
| 14 | That , Mr Sampson said , gave rise for concern with a 15.7 per cent increase during the year , which compares with a 14 per cent rise for Scotland as a whole . |
| 15 | This was rejected on grounds of ease of use and familiarity with the 100 per cent marking scale . |
| 16 | But do n't be greedy : a fund with a 7 per cent to 8 per cent yield is likely to produce a much better capital gain over time than one with a higher yield . |
| 17 | The pensioner movement is only growing very slowly in Britain and it is hard to imagine the prosperous 20 per cent of pensioners feeling they had much in common with the 40 per cent who are completely dependent on state benefits . |
| 18 | The decline is generally in line with the 60 per cent fall in world salmon catches . |
| 19 | In the first three months of last year , Ti'ko was listed as the UK 's seventh largest direct selling computer manufacturer with a 5.3 per cent share of the market . |
| 20 | THE chairman of Tate & Lyle , Neil Shaw , received a massive sweetener to his annual salary this year with a 53 per cent increase , taking the amount to £534,000 . |
| 21 | Hamilton , like the other Scottish courses , bucked the national trend of falling attendances last year with a 15 per cent increase . |
| 22 | With hyper-inflation , BR started the year with a 20 per cent fares increase — despite furious cost-cutting . |
| 23 | Once the basic wage was agreed , increments would be given each year up to the age of 40 and additional payments made for each family member with a 25 per cent component left for job performance . |
| 24 | In a survey with a 75 per cent response rate undertaken by the residents ' association on its new housing estate , some two-thirds of the respondents favoured the setting up of a multi-denominational school . |
| 25 | Ms Short , the Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood , gave the warning as the conference agreed to give women a higher profile in the party with a 40 per cent quota for women on all party committees and local party delegations . |
| 26 | Mr Bain was speaking as Coats delighted the market with a near-13 per cent jump in annual pre-tax profits to £109 million and an unexpected rise in the final dividend from 4p to 4.25p , lifting the total from 7p to 7.25p . |
| 27 | LASMO , which continues as operator , and Shell each have a 47.5 per cent interest , while the Oil and Gas Development Corporation of Pakistan is the third partner with a five per cent holding . |
| 28 | Wasps , top of the table with a 100 per cent record , admit they have yet to play to their full potential . |
| 29 | Well , of course the guy with the sixty per cent just kept saying , you know , up yours , in the nicest possible way , you know , it may work for you , but why should I do it when I get no benefit from it , and I own sixty per cent of this outfit . |
| 30 | Norway will be the leading producer with a 3 per cent rise in output to an average of 2.3 million bpd . |