Example sentences of "cent [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a carefully selected equity portfolio you can get 10 per cent off a room at selected Hilton Hotels ( Ladbroke Group ) , a cut price ‘ exclusive ’ two-week African safari , 15 per cent off two transatlantic voyages on the QE2 ( Trafalgar House ) , and a free centre court ticket at Wimbledon ( All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet ) for every day tennis is played . |
| 2 | Company employees plus a guest can get 35 per cent off the admission price to the Science Museum in London and the National Railway Museum , York . |
| 3 | Lotus communications chief Patrick Peal said : ‘ Cars are cheaper and with one per cent off the base rate borrowing the money to buy a car is also cheaper . ’ |
| 4 | THE lure of 20 per cent off the cost of a portion of fish ‘ n ’ chips at Harry Ramsden 's Yorkshire restaurant has proved irresistable to thousands of small investors . |
| 5 | Most offer more than 50 per cent off the cost , not only of the activity , such as badminton , karate , table tennis , swimming or rowing , for example , but also of the equipment : badminton racquets , table tennis bats and rowing boats . |
| 6 | The shares collapsed 5p to 14p , wiping 26 per cent off the value of the company , 49 per cent controlled by Slough Estates . |
| 7 | Even at 40 per cent off the list price it still costs £1,500 , plus VAT -a bit over the top for me . |
| 8 | Generous discounts were available : 33 per cent off the market value for tenants of three years ' standing , rising by 1 per cent a year up to a maximum of 50 per cent after a total of twenty years as a tenant . |
| 9 | Patients are charged 35 per cent off the dentist 's normal private fee for dentures , crowns , bridges or other treatment involving a dental laboratory or they are charged the laboratory costs . |
| 10 | The Centre for Alternative Technology ( CAT ) has worked out that , on average , 20 per cent of heating goes through the roof , 25 per cent through the walls , 10 per cent through the floor , 10 per cent through the windows and 10 per cent in draughts . |
| 11 | The Centre for Alternative Technology ( CAT ) has worked out that , on average , 20 per cent of heating goes through the roof , 25 per cent through the walls , 10 per cent through the floor , 10 per cent through the windows and 10 per cent in draughts . |
| 12 | In a separate development , British Aerospace confirmed it had raised its stake in Ferranti to 1.7 per cent through the purchase of 5.72 million shares . |
| 13 | Radio Investments has taken its stake in Kent-based radio station Invicta Sound to 10.47 per cent through the purchase of another 1.39 per cent . |
| 14 | The latter , although more populous at 1.09 billion , has slowed its growth rate to less than two per cent through the introduction of family planning . |
| 15 | Announcing the package in parliament , Keating said that the spending programme was the first stage of a four-year " strategy for growth " which would produce an average GDP growth of 4 per cent , cutting unemployment from the current post-war high of 10.3 per cent to 7.75 per cent through the creation of 800,000 jobs . |
| 16 | It has been calculated that in an average semidetached house only twenty-five per cent of the heat generated actually warms the house : twenty per cent may be lost through unlagged upstairs ceilings and the roof ; twenty per cent through windows , doors and flues ; twenty-five per cent through external walls and ten per cent through the ground floor . |
| 17 | The Centre for Alternative Technology ( CAT ) has worked out that , on average , 20 per cent of heating goes through the roof , 25 per cent through the walls , 10 per cent through the floor , 10 per cent through the windows and 10 per cent in draughts . |
| 18 | The late Victorian and Edwardian period offered low taxes , cheap servant labour , and reasonable returns of capital whilst the retail price index fell by around 10 per cent between the wars . |
| 19 | Indeed , instead of declining , the effect of political interest on awareness of ‘ other ’ Conservative politicians actually rose from 32 per cent to 37 per cent between the Pre-Campaign Wave and the end of the campaign , and its effect on awareness of ‘ other ’ Labour politicians declined only from 38 per cent to 34 per cent . |
| 20 | Savers have also missed out on an equity market which delivered average annual returns , including reinvested dividends , of 20 per cent during the Thatcher years . |
| 21 | For example hospital admission rates for men and women aged 75 + increased by at least 60 per cent during the decade . |
| 22 | The Nikkei average index , the main measure of performance in Tokyo , fell by 40 per cent during the year , or approximately US$1,500,000 million , and it was estimated that even dollar-denominated investments there would have lost some 35.4 per cent of their value . |
| 23 | The main engines of growth were capital spending ( under the June Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) agreement [ see below ; p. 36892 ] the Japanese government committed itself to spend 430,000,000 million yen ( US$3,200,000 million ) on public works over the next 10 years ) and domestic consumption ( domestic demand rose by almost 6 per cent during the year ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Not only has Drayton Asia 's investment performance been disappointing , its share price has been trading at a discount to net asset value ranging from 26.8 per cent to 9.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . |
| 25 | ‘ In comparison , Dragon 's share price has been trading in the range of a discount to net asset value of 21.9 per cent to a premium of 1.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . ’ |
| 26 | The financial report reveals that the university 's total income increased by 15 per cent during the year to £75.5 million . |
| 27 | Petrol rationing of over 80 per cent during the smog season from May to October was suggested ! |
| 28 | Although actual passenger numbers on international scheduled services rose 4 per cent during the month , this was well down on the 11 pc increase for January . |
| 29 | As a proportion of the total age group of 60+ those over 75 will have risen from 38.2 to 47.2 per cent during the years 1989 – 2001 . |
| 30 | But they reduced tax payments by only 6 per cent during the years 1959 to 1963 . |