Example sentences of "per [unc] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A consultancy service offering 10 per cent discount to members requiring an in-depth study into the area of energy conservation within their organisation . |
| 2 | Here well-dressed factory representatives show up once a week and sell their goods at 30 per cent discount to wholesalers who then sell them to people like Marta — but not before a hard haggle for the best deal . |
| 3 | The shares are selling on a 25 per cent discount to assets and ‘ there is virtually no downside risk but at least 25 per cent upside potential ’ . |
| 4 | Conservative seats at risk to Labour : Bristol East : Jonathan Sayeed 's 4,123 majority would disappear if there were a 4.1 per cent swing to challenger Jean Corston , a barrister . |
| 5 | According to a study sponsored by the Swiss government , two thirds of the country 's trees have more than 10 per cent damage to leaves and needles due to acid rain , and a fifth of the total are seriously ill . |
| 6 | Suchard was unwilling to increase its bid and sold its 29.9 per cent stake to Nestlé , at a profit close to £200 million . |
| 7 | So even though the discount rate has not changed from 10 per cent , the holding-period return is greater than the 10 per cent discount rate , but it is less than the 10.26 per cent yield to maturity calculated using ( 4.10 ) . |
| 8 | To their growing alarm , the £10.5 billion revenues that Koch Industries were earning from oil trading , refining , piping and ranching were yielding only a one per cent return to shareholders . |
| 9 | The rapid expansion was due to development of the country 's mineral resources , dominated by diamonds ( which contributed over 84 per cent of export earnings ) and the beef industry ( which accounts for most of agriculture 's 3 per cent contribution to GDP ) . |
| 10 | Claimants on income support are now required to pay a 20 per cent contribution to rates or poll tax bills . |
| 11 | Pre-tax profits showed a more modest 2.5 per cent increase to £6.3m in the absence of last time 's £409,000 of property profits , and after a slightly higher tax charge earnings per share were almost unchanged at 6.22p . |
| 12 | Sir James picked up a 67 per cent increase to £571,000 when profits went up seven per cent . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard , for example , managed to grow its annual sales 21 per cent to $12billion , and Apple managed a 30 per cent increase to $5billion . |
| 14 | Kwik Save , the supermarket group , gave retiring chairman Ian Howe a 43 per cent rise to £187,000 . |
| 15 | Iceland Frozen Foods — opening a new store almost every week — rang up a 19 per cent RISE to £24,200,000 |
| 16 | Offers of loans at 10 to 14 per cent interest to nobility , gentry , merchants with incomes for life , persons of known properties , heirs apparent to large estates ( if not minors ) and ladies of character , in The Times of 8 June 1792 . |
| 17 | In addition the bill proposed extending 25 per cent VAT to goods , especially cars imported privately from the West . |
| 18 | Does it really make sense for the Government to spend £10 million advertising the global benefits of energy savings while still adding 17.5 per cent VAT to insulation materials ? |
| 19 | The government has laid down a 20 per cent limit to stakes . |
| 20 | Hoffman-La Roche will take up new Amersham shares to give it 5 per cent of the UK company at a price of 460p , a 12.5 per cent premium to Tuesday 's closing price . |
| 21 | Yet it was Mr Clarke , not Mr Nichol , who was involved in the critical decisions — the cash limit for the NHS , the 6.5 per cent offer to ambulance workers ( compared to seven per cent for nurses , eight per cent for doctors and nine per cent for ancillary workers ) ; and today 's introduction of military ambulances . |