Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man in charge of road mending says he 'd need a thirty per cent increase in funds to fill the hole in his budget |
| 2 | If this is the case , you will need a 100 per cent loan . |
| 3 | Guardian borrowers will enjoy a 0.5 per cent discount for one year , giving a saving of £250 on a typical Guardian mortgage of £50,000 . |
| 4 | Liberal Democrats would introduce a 50 per cent subsidy tapered over five years ( ie 50 per cent in year one , 40 per cent in year two etc ) for salaries of scientists and engineers working on R&D in small and medium sized companies . |
| 5 | Lloyd 's List had earlier reported the Kharg/northwest Europe voyage as particularly profitable : a VLCC at current rates could pick up $3.7 million at W40 which would yield a 25 per cent profit , compared with W27 a month earlier which would have earned just $1.5 million . |
| 6 | The programme suggests that these could achieve a 5 per cent share of total vehicle fuel consumption , through the production of 11 million tonnes of fuel per annum from the seven million hectares of land taken out of food crop production under the EC 's agriculture policy . |
| 7 | Retailers can expect a 35-38 per cent share of the selling price . |
| 8 | The figures published yesterday did not show a 30 per cent . |
| 9 | Although the country 's economy had grown in real terms by 3.5 per cent in 1989 , the Central Bank 's current prediction was that the figure for 1990 would show a 3 per cent contraction , attributable largely to a drop in tourism and to the continuing weak performance by export manufacturing . |
| 10 | Will the Secretary of State say now why he will not give a 100 per cent . |
| 11 | My accountant is n't sitting here on my shoulder , and I 'd have to ask her , Bill , but it 's certainly we do n't assume a hundred per cent take up for the purposes of estimating like this . |
| 12 | Italian farmers can claim a 50 per cent . |
| 13 | Consequently , the local authorities would make a 5 per cent contribution rising in yearly increments to an absolute maximum of 15 per cent , the residual cost of 85 per cent being reclaimed from the pool . |
| 14 | When an act becomes more established , or if it is a new band with good management and someone who knows the business , the agent may make a 10 per cent deal — the standard commission rate . |
| 15 | Use of the same proportionate sampling error would suggest a 95 per cent confidence interval of plus or minus 74 000 children in this age-group , leading to a possible error in the GRE under this heading of about –75 million . |
| 16 | The United States has threatened to ban EC companies from bidding for a range of government contracts from 22 March if the EC does not drop a three per cent pricing preference for domestic over foreign suppliers in public utility contracts . |
| 17 | Two New Zealand firms , Fay Richwhite and Freightways , an investment bank and a transport and security company respectively , would each take a 5 per cent stake in Telecom , while the remaining 40.1 per cent of the company would be offered to the public and international investors through a series of share offerings . |
| 18 | In return , Aegon will take a 40 per cent stake in the infrastructure profits ( that is management charges less expenses ) generated on unit-linked and non with-profits business . |
| 19 | The original idea that Ghana should take a 40 per cent stake in the project vanished early on . |
| 20 | Morgan will take a 51 per cent share and invest about £3.7 million in technology and equipment for the Shanghai Morgan Carbon Company . |
| 21 | It was agreed that the Italian conglomerate FIAT would take a 30 per cent share in the Volga Automotive Plant Association factory ( VAZ ) at Togliattigrad , the largest car-making plant in Russia [ for 1966 Italian-Soviet agreement to construct plant see pp. 21404 ; 21566 ] . |
| 22 | ‘ There will not be any rights issues and my dream is that we can take a 20 per cent share in advertising markets abroad . |
| 23 | Another way of stating the information , since the area under the curve represents probability , is any item taken from the sample at random will have a 68.3 per cent probability of lying between -1 and +1 standard deviations of the mean and a 95.4 per cent probability of lying between -2 and +2 standard deviations of the mean . |
| 24 | Another way of stating the information , since the area under the curve represents probability , is any item taken from the sample at random will have a 68.3 per cent probability of lying between — 1 and + 1 standard deviations of the mean and a 95.4 per cent probability of lying between — 2 and +2 standard deviations of the mean . |
| 25 | It may well be that if you set the penalties so high , and if you can have a hundred per cent detection , then there may well be a deterrent element in these crimes , but basically the law is clearing up a mess , and the mess has occurred , and then the law comes along and does the best it can . |
| 26 | For example , if a bank had £100 million of assets , of which £10 million were liquid and £90 million were illiquid , the bank would have a 10 per cent liquidity ratio . |
| 27 | The consortium behind the $7bn management buyout , in which BA would have a 15 per cent stake , admitted yesterday that it had been unable to complete its part of the financing . |
| 28 | Thames will have a 15 per cent stake in the unnamed channel , with BBCE limiting itself to 20 per cent . |
| 29 | Artificial insemination by donor ( AID ) , i.e. by a man other than the husband , can be used to achieve fertility where the husband lacks spermatozoa , or is otherwise infertile , or if the husband is a carrier of a genetic disease with a high chance of its being transmitted to a child ; alternatively the husband and wife may both be carriers of the same recessive gene , so that each act of fertilization would have a 25 per cent chance of giving rise to a diseased child . |
| 30 | Landlords will have a 25 per cent . |