Example sentences of "on a [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to a question in Parliament in 1984 , figures based on a 10 per cent sample were given of the comparative success rates of different types of representation . |
| 2 | Selling Old Trafford to a first-time buyer on a 100 per cent mortgage would be easier than selling Manchester for the 1996 Olympics . |
| 3 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 4 | Animal health profits rose 5 per cent on a 4 per cent higher turnover , and consumer brands ' profits were up 1 per cent , on a 12 per cent higher turnover . |
| 5 | Let the surface dry , then apply another coat of white stain mixed with matt polyurethane on a five per cent stain/ninety-five per cent polyurethane ratio . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The government and its supporters eventually accepted this but then insisted on a 75 per cent majority applying to regional issues , including the country 's future status as a unitary or a federal state . |
| 8 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 9 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 10 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 11 | On a 56 per cent turnout , they gave Soglo 36.16 per cent of the votes , Kerekou 27.33 per cent , and their closest contender , Albert Tevoedjre , 14.24 per cent , provoking a second-round runoff between Kerekou and Soglo on March 24 . |
| 12 | Banking stoppages begun in February resulted in agreement on April 4 on a 5.4 per cent pay increase , backdated to Feb. 1 and applicable for 13 months , plus a one-off payment of DM |
| 13 | Coopers & Lybrand took issue with the official Red Book projections of growth rising to annualised 2 per cent rate in the second half of this year , climbing to 3½ per cent from 1993–94 to 1996–97 , and based its forecasts instead on a 2½ per cent growth rate . |
| 14 | On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided . |
| 15 | Animal health profits rose 5 per cent on a 4 per cent higher turnover , and consumer brands ' profits were up 1 per cent , on a 12 per cent higher turnover . |
| 16 | Secondly the allowance for inflation was based on a three per cent price increase and because of the very competitive nature of the prices we receive for maintenance work a sum of two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be carried forward into next year from this allowance , in other words the real purchasing power of the budget have been maintained and two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be put aside to stand in the future . |
| 17 | At a summit meeting in June US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev formally confirmed that a START treaty , which they expected to be completed by the end of 1990 , would be based on a 30 per cent overall cut in long-range nuclear missiles over a seven-year period . |
| 18 | ‘ We would have been happy to let the variable premium scheme that expired in April 1989 run forever , but the CAP reforms focused on a 30 per cent reduction in cereal prices over three years and the commission decided it was necessary to compensate beef farmers feeding cattle on grass , ’ he said . |
| 19 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | On the weekend of March 16-17 after a week of strikes the public-sector trade union ÖTV reached agreement with the federal government on a 6 per cent pay increase to be backdated to Jan. 1 , 1991 . |
| 22 | How , Mellor wondered , would the Lib Dems respond to the unlikely scenario of getting a working majority on a 33 per cent poll ? |
| 23 | This sum is £1.30 ; in Birkenhead only 272 tenants pay less than this sum on a 20 per cent contribution . |