Example sentences of "went up [prep] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is doing nothing , what were the last Labour Government doing when inflation went up to 27 per cent ? |
| 2 | Be nice if it went up to twenty per cent in the budget cos everyone could work it out more easily , |
| 3 | The Guardian/ICM poll , taken last week when interest rates went up to 15 per cent , also found that Labour had maintained its 10 per cent lead over the Conservatives . |
| 4 | There had been no improvement in productivity , retail prices went up by 1.5 per cent ( although the real level of inflation was widely thought to be at least double that ) , and wages remained static in real terms . |
| 5 | The cost of bread , rice , flour and meat went up by 300 per cent , as did the prices of children 's clothing ; the cost of milk , eggs , cheese , sugar and tea , and adult clothing , went up by 200 per cent ; fares on public transport went up by between 70 and 140 per cent . |
| 6 | The price of petrol was increased by 47 per cent , domestic butane gas by 60 per cent and electricity by 71 per cent , and telephone and postal rates went up by 58 per cent and 81 per cent respectively . |
| 7 | Seasonal food prices went up by 2.1 per cent in February , and average prices of clothing and footwear rose by 1.8 per cent , after falling 4.6 per cent in January . |
| 8 | Both road traffic and the overall casualty rate per passenger mile went up by one per cent . |
| 9 | The main tax rates remained unchanged , while most tax allowances and excise duties were increased in line with inflation ( 7.7 per cent over the 12 months to December 1989 ) , although some duties went up by 10 per cent . |
| 10 | In the past decade demand for food rose by just 0.5 per cent each year while production went up by 1.8 per cent each year |
| 11 | Everywhere in the region suffered : Thames Valley went up by 212 per cent and even rural Wiltshire rose by 205 per cent . |
| 12 | Profits went up by ten per cent last month and your stepfather got the credit . |
| 13 | The cost of bread , rice , flour and meat went up by 300 per cent , as did the prices of children 's clothing ; the cost of milk , eggs , cheese , sugar and tea , and adult clothing , went up by 200 per cent ; fares on public transport went up by between 70 and 140 per cent . |
| 14 | Civilian workers employed by the police went up by 12 per cent between 1979 and 1988 ( 34,630 to 41,800 ) . |
| 15 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 16 | At the same time the price of leaded petrol was increased by 55 per cent , compared with a 25 per cent rise for unleaded , and electricity prices went up by 15 per cent . |
| 17 | Lada prices went up by three per cent on 1 October making their cheapest car , the Riva 1300SEL saloon , £3275 . |
| 18 | Alcoholic drinks went up by 6 per cent . |
| 19 | In the poor north-eastern part of Brazil infant mortality went up by 20 per cent between 1982 and 1984 , even though the Brazilian government had made a special effort to establish more health-care facilities during the same period . |
| 20 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 21 | According to the General Household Survey , the proportion of one-person households went up from 17 per cent in 1971 to 26 per cent in 1988 , while that of households with six or more people fell from 6 to 2 per cent . |
| 22 | Another figure I was delighted to see increase was the vaccination rate for whooping cough , which went up from 31 per cent to 73 per cent . |