Example sentences of "for 40 [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this , and to be able to return to all shareholders the full 100p value of their initial investment , the managers must achieve compound growth of 6.8 per cent — a modest target given their plan to invest 80 per cent of the fund in UK blue-chip companies and the fact that the top 20 Footsie stocks last year accounted for 40 per cent of the total income of the FT-all share index . |
| 2 | The agreement , between conservatives , moderates and liberals , calls for 40 per cent of the legislature to be directly elected by 1997 , and 60 per cent by 2001 . |
| 3 | The new measures are aimed at curbing unofficial action , which last year accounted for 40 per cent of the days lost through strikes . |
| 4 | Since the trade union votes count for 40 per cent of the local electoral college , Mr Davies was declared the nominee . |
| 5 | The SMMT estimates that they account for 40 per cent of all kits sold in the UK . |
| 6 | The US Environmental Protection Agency has calculated that these unregulated substances could , if they are not incorporated into the Montreal Protocol , account for 40 per cent of stratospheric chlorine levels by 2075 . |
| 7 | In 1970 the hundred largest firms accounted for 40 per cent of net output as compared with 25 per cent in the early 1950s . |
| 8 | At censuses before the Second World War , men outnumbered women in the paid workforce by more than two to one , by the mid-1980s the ratio approaches even numbers with women accounting for 40 per cent of the labour force at the 1981 census and , in 1987 , 45 per cent of employees in employment . |
| 9 | EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SALES ( EXCLUDING UK ) ACCOUNT FOR 40 PER CENT OF ALL EXPORTS . |
| 10 | There were periods , notably 1720 – 40 and 1760 – 1770 , when home consumption increased more quickly than exports , but as Professor Cole has pointed out , exports over the century as a whole could well have accounted for 40 per cent of the increase in industrial output . |