Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report noted that the industrialized countries could improve the lot of 1,100 million people living on an average per capita income equivalent to less than US$370 a year by increasing and targeting aid to countries committed to reducing poverty . |
| 2 | The shares are selling on a 25 per cent discount to assets and ‘ there is virtually no downside risk but at least 25 per cent upside potential ’ . |
| 3 | The economy of the Cayman Islands continued to grow during 1989 and 1990 , building on the 16 per cent growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in real terms recorded in 1988 . |
| 4 | Government backbenchers effectively destroyed the Devolution Bill by insisting on the 40 per cent rule in the devolution referendum . |
| 5 | The broader view based on cost benefit analysis ( taking all costs and benefits into account ) was still unacceptable to a government insisting on an 8 per cent direct investment return . |