Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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1 | Borders businesses are also likely to benefit as a 17 per cent reduction in water bills is planned . |
2 | It is then assumed that these mortality measures correctly reflect more general health ( or morbidity ) differentials and , furthermore , that 10 per cent extra resources are needed to compensate for a 10 per cent excess risk . |
3 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
4 | Central London agents Cluttons estimate that for properties valued under £185,000 , it is now cheaper to buy with a 95 per cent mortgate than to rent . |
5 | Many , financially stretched with community care implementation , find it hard to locate the 30 per cent needed to qualify for the 7- per cent grant . |
6 | Officials are already concerned he does not spend enough time there to qualify for the 12 per cent tax laws . |
7 | I 'd be very surprised if he manages to keep to the 1.5 per cent increase in public sector pay . |
8 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
9 | Chief executive Mr Baker , 54 , saw his earnings increase from £135,911 to £383,935 while his workers had to settle for a 5.5 per cent wage rise . |
10 | There was no increase in the licence fee to pay for a 50 per cent jump in programme hours . |
11 | This will amount to about a fifth of the £20m Aegon is to pay for the 40 per cent cut in the business . |
12 | We were tremendously encouraged by the active support we received throughout the battle from so many customers and employees , and a comfortable majority of your fellow shareholders have now demonstrated their confidence in our future , for Anglo-Welsh were only offered a further 6.7 per cent of shares to add to the 29.75 per cent they already owned . |
13 | The AGRs have also enabled the nuclear component of electricity production in the United Kingdom ( including Scotland ) to push through the 20 per cent barrier . |
14 | If they are to return to a 10 per cent liquidity ratio , they need only retain £11 billion as balances at the Bank of England ( £11 billion £1 l0 billion = 10 per cent ) . |
15 | Claiming to speak for the eighty per cent of Kindertransporte refugees who were clearly Jewish ( though of these only twenty per cent were orthodox and at least fourteen per cent were non-practising ) , Schonfeld argued a policy of Jewish homes for Jewish children and , if this failed , for the RCM to devote its energies to raising money for hostels where religious supervision ( of a strictly orthodox nature ) could be guaranteed . |
16 | Then it was presented with a list of terminal patients and had to skim off the 25 per cent who would be okayed for resurrection . |
17 | Subsequently two-thirds of all the recognized abuse in their population was found to occur in the 18 per cent predicted high risk group-19 out of the total of 28 recognized cases . |
18 | Trade with European Community ( EC ) countries , on the other hand , was expected to rise to a 40 per cent share of Hungarian trade in 1991 . |