Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was widespread support for an extension to the temporary 40 per cent tax allowance for investment in plant and equipment introduced last autumn , but 66 per cent of participants disapproved of any proposal to move the burden of tax on to increased National Insurance contributions . |
| 2 | Deals concluded in the first quarter averaged 4.3 per cent , slightly down on the earlier estimate of 4.5 per cent , but closer to the current four per cent inflation rate . |
| 3 | They all expect the Government 's public sector borrowing requirement to rise in the coming financial year to anywhere between £40 billion and £55 billion , and interest rates by the end of 1993 to range from 4.5 per cent to the current 6 per cent . |
| 4 | They all expect the Government 's public sector borrowing requirement to rise in the coming financial year to anywhere between £40 billion and £55 billion , and interest rates by the end of 1993 to range from 4.5 per cent to the current 6 per cent . |
| 5 | The USA had threatened to impose a 100 per cent retaliatory import tariff on some $165,000,000-worth of Japanese personal computers every year , unless Japan took action to implement the 1986 agreement ; it had , however , eventually agreed to give Japan another 18 months , until the end of 1992 , in which to build up US imports to the agreed 20 per cent market share . |
| 6 | In the summary table the success rates are given to the nearest five per cent . |
| 7 | The results for specific questions are those actually obtained and have not been given to the nearest five per cent . |
| 8 | Bone fragments were recorded to the nearest 25 per cent of the original unbroken element or part thereof , and this enabled distinctions to be drawn between some of the seven predator species compared . |
| 9 | She points to the additional 1.9 per cent which is being offered for growth and argues the more explicit guidelines are there to ‘ make sure we are getting value for money ’ . |
| 10 | What happened to the other 90 per cent ? |
| 11 | Currently , the annual saving is in the region of £5 billion , only slightly more than the sum that the Government gave away in tax cuts to the richest 1 per cent of taxpayers in the 1988 budget . |
| 12 | Although most have gained , half of the total giveaway in terms of benefits and tax reductions has gone to the richest 10 per cent of households . |
| 13 | Moreover , blanket support by volume of output ensures that most of the support goes to the wealthiest 25 per cent of landowners , who produce 75 per cent of output . |
| 14 | And corporate income tax also has to rise to the same 36 per cent , from 34 per cent , because the slightest gap would cause the genuinely rich to incorporate overnight . |
| 15 | According to studies into the side on which men ‘ dress ’ , seventy-five per cent have penises that lie to the left when they 're fully clothed as opposed to a mere seventeen per cent that have penises that lie to the right . |
| 16 | The fineness of the gold began a gentle decline through the tenth century to about 90 per cent , and debasement accelerated during the following century until it took a sudden nosedive in the two decades between 1071 and 1092 , falling from about 70 per cent to a mere 10 per cent . |
| 17 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 18 | The effect of reading a highbrow paper on public awareness of Kinnock dropped from 28 per cent to a mere 5 per cent as the election approached . |
| 19 | The difference between Kinnock 's visibility to those with high and low levels of political interest dropped from 45 per cent before the campaign to 20 per cent at the end of the campaign ; the difference between his visibility to highbrow and lowbrow paper readers dropped from 28 per cent to a mere 5 per cent ; but over the same period the difference between his visibility amongst viewers and nonviewers of television news actually rose slightly . |
| 20 | The major achievement that could be claimed by March 1983 — a notable one indeed — was that inflation had fallen from a peak of 22 per cent in early 1980 to a mere 5 per cent . |
| 21 | The English figure climbed briefly to 9 per cent in the mid-nineteenth century and then fell back to a mere 1 per cent today . |
| 22 | The rest of the thirteen essential attributes range between a mention by 20 per cent for ‘ mature/stable ’ down to a mere 2 per cent for ‘ specific educational qualifications ' ( ! ) |
| 23 | Acknowledging the downward spiral caused by the most severe global recession since the Second World War , the report predicted that world economic growth would rise from 1.5 per cent in 1992 to a mere 3 per cent in 1993 . |
| 24 | France also jacked up its key bank interest rate from 10.5 per cent to a crippling 13 per cent . |
| 25 | THE rate of inflation is expected to fall from 4.1 per cent down to a possible 3.8 per cent when official figures are published tomorrow , writes Anne Segall . |
| 26 | Our vote had collapsed to a paltry 7 per cent and the alliance of the centre now seemed capable of taking everything before it . |
| 27 | Now 30 per cent of its junior management are women , although that figure falls away to a paltry 1 per cent at the highest levels . |
| 28 | ( Professor Dudek has demonstrated that from a base of only 1.7 per cent of the population , the input in terms of literature and art amounts to a staggering 25 per cent . ) |
| 29 | In 1965 only 5 per cent of demand was met by imports , by 1970 it was 14 percent rising to 33 per cent by 1975 and to a staggering 60 per cent by the early 1980s [ Wells and Imber , 1977 ; Williams et al. , 1983 ] . |
| 30 | So far as the debt was concerned , the first success was in converting most of the short-term , high-interest credit which had stemmed from the wartime issue of government bills to a funded 5 per cent stock in 1784 – 5 . |