Example sentences of "per cent [adv prt] [prep] last " in BNC.
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1 | While many brewers are bemoaning over-capacity and falling sales , Wood 's are trading 33 per cent up on last year 's summer figures on their Parish , Special and Wonderful brews . |
2 | The final dividend should be 10 per cent up on last year 's payment . |
3 | ‘ Holidays are now becoming essential purchases and in 1992 summer bookings were 12 per cent up on last year . |
4 | In the seven days before Christmas , customers collected £271 million from hole-in-the-wall machines , 11 per cent up on last year . |
5 | Shareholders were told at the Bournemouth-based group 's annual meeting yesterday that January reservations were 9.4 per cent up on last year 's and that this month , a 41-unit development was sold to a housing association . |
6 | AN energetic drive to broaden the customer base has led to a Courtaulds Aerospace company in France anticipating turnover 50 per cent up on last year . |
7 | Thomson , whose companies include Horizon , Skytours , OSL , HCI and Wings , announced its new prices as it was revealed that bookings for 1993 are already 10 per cent down on last year . |
8 | Darlington 's gates are 20 per cent down on last season and well below a break-even figure of 4,000 . |