Example sentences of "per [unc] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It is now one of Britain 's largest bus groups , with approaching 5 per cent of the market , which rises to between 15 and 20 per cent north of the border .
2 However , Grundy ( 1986 ) , using data from the OPCS Longitudinal Study which is based on a 1 per cent sample of the 1971 Census linked to records from the 1981 Census , reports a similar pattern .
3 Since the mid 1970s this source has brought together information from census and vital registration records for a one per cent sample of the population of England and Wales .
4 For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) .
5 The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys started a longitudinal study in 1971 by selecting a I per cent sample from the Census returns .
6 Good sail characteristics for the heavy No 1 would be 150 per cent overlap with the aft portion of the sail being flat .
7 It has been brought forward to 5 April to allow institutional shareholders to enjoy the 25 per cent grossing-up for the last time .
8 90 per cent availability is now the norm , and there have been weeks when the 150/ 2 series , arguably the most reliable diesel trains ever to have run in Britain , have attained 100 per cent availability during the daytime .
9 A 19 per cent slump in the value of sterling against the Hong Kong dollar was a big contributor .
10 To ease the new channel 's birth , the ITC has decided it need not achieve any more than 30 per cent coverage of the country in its first year .
11 Because of the way the audience is made up , and because of different people 's viewing patterns , it requires a very heavy campaign to get anywhere near 100 per cent coverage of the audience .
12 Tariff barriers on basic grains were to be eliminated across the region by the end of the year , and duties on all agricultural produce by June 1992 ; duties on most other products should be held below a 20 per cent ceiling from the beginning of 1993 .
13 But it is reasonable to assume that Eastern Europe is still considerably better off than Brazil , which in early 1990 was reported to be $6 billion in arrears on its $115 billion debt and facing the prospect of 2200 per cent inflation during the year .
14 It provides discounts of up to one third on most fares and a 50 per cent discount on the Network Card for travel in London and the South-east .
15 Yachting World readers are being offered a 10 per cent discount on the price of the service , providing they send them this page of Yachting World .
16 This is largely a convenience , as you could just as readily sell trust holdings yourself , but Gartmore offers a 2 per cent discount on the reinvestment into its own trusts , while Fidelity offers 0.5 per cent for sums over £5,000 and 1 per cent on £10,000 plus .
17 City analysts said that the full year should see a profit of £19.5m , to give 43.5p of earnings and a 14 per cent discount to the market .
18 Assuming pre-tax profits of £230m , before one-off property income , Sears shares are on a p/e of 10.5 at 118p , a 10 per cent discount to the market , and are on a yield of over 6 per cent , exceeded only by Next and Storehouse .
19 The third in the series feature a footballer and talked about a mortgage offering a 2 per cent discount in the first year .
20 The Liberal Democrat leader said the result had to be judged in the context of the party 's six per cent standing in the opinion polls two years ago , following the Liberal/SDP merger .
21 The Liberal Democrat leader said the result had to be judged in the context of the party 's six per cent standing in the opinion polls two years ago , following the Liberal/SDP merger .
22 Previously we described a 3.5-kilobase complementary DNA clone that exhibits 80 per cent homology to the C-terminal domain of dystrophin .
23 Mr Taylor refused to blame the race row that greeted his adoption 18 months ago for his defeat by Mr Nigel Jones , who won with a six per cent swing to the Liberal Democrats .
24 It shows a seven per cent swing from the Conservatives to Labour overall , and in some areas the swing is as high as 10.5 per cent .
25 The Liberal Democrats won Kincardine and Deeside with an 11.4 per cent swing from the Conservatives ; this gave the Liberal Democrats their 10th seat in Scotland , overtaking the Conservatives ( nine ) .
26 Labour won Langbaurgh with a 3.6 per cent swing from the Conservatives , in a campaign marred by alleged racial insinuations against the successful Labour candidate , Ashok Kumar .
27 It achieved more than a four per cent swing in the West Midlands and won seven of its nine target seats , with only Coventry South West and Dudley West failing to fall .
28 The Bradford and Northern Housing Association will receive a 100 per cent grant for the £370 , unit development at Abbeyfield in Yarm .
29 Local authorities will be given a 50 per cent grant towards the cost of each shelter .
30 At one time Dalgety was up 16p as Elf Aquitaine , the French oil group , confirmed it had formed a joint company with Australian Robert Holmes a Court to hold a 5.5 per cent stake in the Dalgety agricultural and food group .
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