Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission document records that the Edinburgh Summit agreed that consideration should be given to areas which were very close to the 75 per cent mark . |
| 2 | From the case 3 curve we can decide on the percentage of accesses corresponding to the 10–90 per cent packing points , i.e. 11.1 per cent , 22.2 per cent , … of records . |
| 3 | Christophe was extremely fit and used to the 100 per cent humidity , and had learnt a long time back to carry the absolute minimum — a battered still camera and two oranges for lunch — for a full day in the forest . |
| 4 | But as the tables show , if interest rates rise again to the 15.4 per cent level of three years ago , this would double to £20 a month . |
| 5 | I have n't had time to get it up on the machine to change again quickly but I 've had a quick look at the situation with regard to the five per cent increase . |
| 6 | Though mercy killing is still officially illegal , the law turns a blind eye to the 2.4 per cent of Dutch deaths which are accounted for by it . |
| 7 | On the question of voting rights , Hashimoto described as " regrettable " the fact that Germany , France , the United Kingdom and Japan together controlled only 8 per cent of the shareholder vote , compared to the 34.6 per cent controlled by the United States and Canada together . |
| 8 | I can not give credence to the 17 per cent . |
| 9 | Markets tumble : The FT-SE 100 index fell 30.5 points to 2,281.6 as a reaction to the 1 per cent increase in base rates . |
| 10 | The true proportion of people worth less than £2 in the vale was probably closer to the 32.7 per cent in Barton near Bristol hundred than to the 14.8 per cent in Whitstone , just south of Gloucester . |
| 11 | He pointed to the 6.8 per cent increase in the number of income support claimants between 1991 and ‘ 92 and gave warning of the effect on the poor of the staged increases on valued0added tax on domestic fuel bills . |
| 12 | In Georgia Buchanan came very close to the 37 per cent which he had scored in New Hampshire , whilst in Colorado and Maryland , where he had hardly campaigned , he won 30 per cent . |
| 13 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 14 | Once you are comfortable walking at the 60 per cent level , then experiment up to the 70–75 per cent level . |
| 15 | I 'd be very surprised if he manages to keep to the 1.5 per cent increase in public sector pay . |
| 16 | The policyholders ' rights enshrined in the voting trust will remain intact until Aegon increases its take in the plc to the 80 per cent mark . |
| 17 | Because they had n't done any management , Debbie felt Landlords were entitled only to the 10 per cent tenant-finding fee and therefore owed her £2,400 ( 3 months ' rent plus the deposit ) . |
| 18 | A Washington survey , for example , showed that 38 per cent of those asked revealed that they had been a victim of a serious crime within the last year , compared to the 10 per cent revealed by police statistics . |
| 19 | cut in the youth training budget for this year , which is in addition to the 12 per cent . |
| 20 | The new legislation made it possible for all South Africans to purchase freehold tenure to the 87 per cent of South Africa 's land hitherto reserved for the white minority , although it placed no obligation on white owners to sell , and commentators pointed out that few blacks had the means to buy . |
| 21 | This was due in part to the 50 per cent fall in coffee prices after the breakdown in talks at a meeting of the International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) in July 1989 [ see p. 36836 ] . |
| 22 | We were tremendously encouraged by the active support we received throughout the battle from so many customers and employees , and a comfortable majority of your fellow shareholders have now demonstrated their confidence in our future , for Anglo-Welsh were only offered a further 6.7 per cent of shares to add to the 29.75 per cent they already owned . |
| 23 | The panel had also been over-optimistic on employment which fell by 3 per cent compared to the 2 per cent forecast . |
| 24 | He would have been able to claim credit for ‘ one of the Government 's export achievements ’ , a reference to the 30 per cent of those elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society who now live abroad . |
| 25 | The income level subject to the 1.45 per cent Medicare payroll tax was increased from $51,300 to $125,000 . |
| 26 | In addition to the 20 per cent out of work , contract and part-time employment has tripled in the past five years . |
| 27 | Low-income families are put at grave risk and local authorities are unable to administer the housing benefit system efficiently because they are tied to the 20 per cent . |
| 28 | People aged 65 and over will also be covered by the restriction of the MCA to the 20 per cent tax rate . |
| 29 | He happily entered an agreement , which lasted until 1961 , 1 5 years after his death , to leave political policy to the 49 per cent shareholders , the TUC . |
| 30 | Section three is a consolidated bid equating to the three per cent revenue development requested by Thomason Committee , and all committees earlier this year . |