Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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1 | For the reject results the same calculations are done on the unshaded area giving revised probabilities of 0.32 for the 10 per cent and 0.68 for the 2 per cent levels . |
2 | The introduction on Oct. 22 of a 10 per cent general consumption tax ( GCT ) provoked widespread criticism from the political opposition and scepticism from the business community . |
3 | Does the Chancellor agree that our abysmal economic growth performance since the Government took office in 1979 is due largely to the dismal performance of British manufacturing industry , and that the forecast for the year 1991 of a 15 per cent . |
4 | For the reject results the same calculations are done on the unshaded area giving revised probabilities of 0.32 for the 10 per cent and 0.68 for the 2 per cent levels . |
5 | In view of the CBI 's projected figure for 1992 of a 4.4 per cent . |
6 | The workers at Hawick , Galashiels , Earlston , Berwick and Arbroath voted 732 to 670 against a 4 per cent pay rise plus an extra day 's holiday by 732 votes to 670 . |
7 | Banking stoppages begun in February resulted in agreement on April 4 on a 5.4 per cent pay increase , backdated to Feb. 1 and applicable for 13 months , plus a one-off payment of DM |
8 | These savings amount to roughly £1 billion for every 1 per cent cut in the base rate . |
9 | The 0 coefficients vary between 0.44 and 0.67 for the 50 per cent pass mark and between 0.44 and 0.74 for the 70 per cent pass mark . |
10 | The announcement on Oct. 3 of a 28 per cent devaluation of the local currency , the ouguiya , against the dollar was met by rioting in Nouakchott as local merchants increased food prices by 40 per cent ( US$1.00=105.852 ouguiya as at Oct. 19 , 1992 ) . |
11 | For their UK data ADD carried out such a test and obtained a test statistic of 17.93 which has to be compared with a critical chi-square value of 15.5 at the 5 per cent level and 20.1 at the 1 per cent level , with 8 degrees of freedom . |
12 | The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) . |
13 | Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation . |
14 | Although many countries satisfy PLAN 's eligibility criteria , Tanzania ranks extremely high in terms of having one of the lowest per capita GNPs , low life expectancy , low primary school enrollment rates . |
15 | Bassano is at the centre of a large and prosperous area in the Veneto with one of the highest per capita incomes in Italy and therefore in Europe . |
16 | This gave it " one of the highest per capita rates of deforestation in the world " . |
17 | But if you are one of the 75 per cent who have decided against having an independent survey , then read on — you need this book more than anyone . |
18 | He was on his way to becoming a statistic , one of the sixty per cent of fathers who lose all contact with their children within five years of divorce . |
19 | They feared he was one of the three per cent of victims who would die . |
20 | For their UK data ADD carried out such a test and obtained a test statistic of 17.93 which has to be compared with a critical chi-square value of 15.5 at the 5 per cent level and 20.1 at the 1 per cent level , with 8 degrees of freedom . |
21 | The 0 coefficients vary between 0.44 and 0.67 for the 50 per cent pass mark and between 0.44 and 0.74 for the 70 per cent pass mark . |
22 | By the end of the day the raid was complete ; Tiphook had paid £7.7 million for a 9.9 per cent slice of its main competitor . |
23 | New owners , who bought Wentworth for an almost " give-away " £17 million , instructed a Japanese firm to raise £32 million for a 40 per cent equity , and investors were targeted in Japan , Hong Kong and Sweden . |
24 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that the Football Trust gets an extra £20 million from the 2.5 per cent . |