Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the average per capita of land held in such does not exceed two hundred percent of the average per capita land held in the locality it shall remain untouched . |
| 2 | Although many countries satisfy PLAN 's eligibility criteria , Tanzania ranks extremely high in terms of having one of the lowest per capita GNPs , low life expectancy , low primary school enrollment rates . |
| 3 | Of the 55 per cent who knew of chlorine 's everyday uses , only three per cent were aware of its use as a hospital disinfectant and one per cent of its function in plastics manufacture . |
| 4 | Such a plea , although laudable , has little chance of becoming reality in the present organizational set-up , for it ignores the semantic difference in the uniformed ‘ polis 's ’ role and that of the 10–15 per cent of the institution who form the élite in the CID . |
| 5 | He was on his way to becoming a statistic , one of the sixty per cent of fathers who lose all contact with their children within five years of divorce . |
| 6 | Obviously the snake arrangements required intervention by domestic monetary authorities when currencies looked likely to break out of the 2¼ per cent band . |
| 7 | But if you are one of the 75 per cent who have decided against having an independent survey , then read on — you need this book more than anyone . |
| 8 | I give my warmest congratulations to the staff at Ormskirk hospital , which I visited in November 1989 for the turf-cutting for a new £32 million project which was a typical example of the 75 per cent . |
| 9 | The compact was on this occasion approved by 4,633 votes ( 59.8 per cent ) to 2,988 ( 38.6 per cent ) but , as on previous occasions , the level of approval fell short of the 75 per cent necessary to amend the Constitution as required by the terms of the compact . |
| 10 | Also , for the purposes of the 75 per cent vote , there are disregarded shares held by any person whom the court regards as a promoter of the scheme . |
| 11 | Of the 44 per cent of the electorate who took part in the poll , 73 per cent supported the plant . |
| 12 | The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) . |
| 13 | The Turkish-Cypriot zone was allocated 28.2 per cent of the island , instead of the 37 per cent occupied at present . |
| 14 | Well known examples include the rare use of the 80–100 per cent range in arts and social studies and the full use of very high and very low marks in science and mathematics . |
| 15 | Success now was of the kind associated with Henry Pelham , who during his time at the Treasury from 1749 to 1757 rescheduled almost 90 per cent of the 4 per cent debt , down to 3.5 per cent in 1750 and down again to 3 per cent by 1757 . |
| 16 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 17 | Holders of £500 to £1,000 worth formed 31.4 per cent of the East India stock hold-ers , 22.9 per cent of the Bank 's , 18 per cent of the South Sea Company 's and 19 per cent of the 4 per cent 's . |
| 18 | It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years . |
| 19 | That takes no account of the 100 per cent . |
| 20 | In some senses this transfer is sufficient in that the SEA was accepted on the basis of the 100 per cent increase in Structural Funds designed to ease adjustment . |
| 21 | We forgot the size of the 8 per cent swing required to give Labour an overall majority ; that the Tories had held their private leadership election 18 months before ; that recessions steel hearts rather than change them , driving people back to the devil they know , to secure their own base-line rather than pushing them towards adventurous alternatives . |
| 22 | The conference agreed to adopt a set of compromise proposals which would involve a commitment by each donor country to increase its ODA to LDCs , but it refrained from setting an overall target in excess of the 0.15 per cent agreed upon in 1981 . |
| 23 | In a previous book I suggested that it might be parasitic , freeloading on the efforts of the 1 per cent , a theory that has more recently been taken up by molecular biologists under the name of ‘ selfish DNA ’ . |
| 24 | Thirdly UK contributions coming from the application of the 1 per cent VAT rate were also high , because of the high ratio of consumption expenditure to GNP within the UK . |
| 25 | As it is , the swing to Labour was a feeble 2.1 per cent , scarcely more than it achieved in 1987 , and well short of the 5.2 per cent to the Tories which brought Mrs Thatcher to power in 1979 . |
| 26 | The hard campaigning continued and two years later , in 1985 , 21 countries signed the Helsinki Protocol , a legally binding agreement equivalent to the demands of the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
| 27 | On news of the one per cent interest rate cut , the hundred shares index closed up twenty-five point nine at twenty-five , eighty-six exactly . |
| 28 | Which seem to me re re re re reasonable to be suggesting that we could lobby government , in order to say that , people with special training needs ca n't be included within the whole of the hundred per cent linked output related funding , be because the issue is that then , er they do have special training , and that 's that that 's the justification for them , that particular group . |
| 29 | Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation . |
| 30 | Above all else , Baker understood the essential role of compromise in executive-legislative relations and it was the LSG that prevailed upon Reagan to give ground on the tax cut by accepting reductions of 5 per cent — 10 per cent — 10 per cent in three successive years in place of the 10 per cent — 10 per cent — 10 per cent of Kemp-Roth . |