Example sentences of "cent [prep] [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pledge to cut my car mileage by ten per cent during the next year . |
| 2 | The commission structure is a significant improvement on pre-Big Bang charges at a minimum of £16 and a rate of 1.25 per cent on the first £2,500 of a transaction , falling to 0.75 per cent for the next £2,500 and 0.2 per cent thereafter . |
| 3 | In July 1978 , he announced bluntly that the government would commit the unions to a pay-increase norm of just 5 per cent for the next twelve months . |
| 4 | But independent adviser David Aaron is offering to top that up to 10 per cent for the next year for any Assets reader who invests through him before December 31 ( Phone 0908 281544 for details ) . |
| 5 | In the United States , for example , people began to pay tax on the first slice of their income at 14 per cent , then 16 per cent for the next band , and so on . |
| 6 | For example , suppose we have a company from which we expect a dividend growth of 25 per cent for the next 5 years . |
| 7 | It came on a day of positive signs for the British economy , with the Bank of England saying it thought inflation would remain below the Government 's target of 4 per cent for the next two years , and cautious indications of a pick-up in high street spending . |
| 8 | The maximum protection is £48,000 per person , or 100 per cent of the first £30,000 and 90 per cent of the next £20,000 . |
| 9 | Population within Cheshire is expected to increase by 8.5 per cent within the next ten years , and the local planning department anticipates a 10 per cent increase in Knutsford itself . |
| 10 | Mitterrand also announced that France would increase its official development assistance ( ODA ) to LDCs , from 0.15 per cent of GNP to 0.20 per cent within the next five years . |
| 11 | Tax-payers ' backing for the loss-making provincial operation , now £400 million a year , will be cut by 25 per cent in the next three years , according to Mr Parkinson . |
| 12 | Mr Prescott said yesterday that separate DoT assessments for new transport facilities in London had assumed increases — after taking account of inflation — in southern rail and Tube fares of more than 40 per cent in the next 10-15 years . |
| 13 | One paper at the conference predicted that the heat pump companies can cut overall costs by at least 25 per cent in the next 20 years . |
| 14 | It 's a product built for safety , even though S&P confidently predicts that share prices will soar by 50 per cent in the next three years . |
| 15 | The party , facing a deficit of £1.3million , must cut costs by 30 per cent in the next financial year . |
| 16 | The number of people over 85 will rise by 54 per cent in the next 20 years , threatening a ‘ health care catastrophe , ’ the British Medical Association said yesterday … it adds : ‘ the general treatment of the frail elderly by the state is a scandal . |
| 17 | Counselling an overall growth rate of 5.5-6 per cent in the next five years , he said that the government would maintain subsidies for state-owned enterprises , accounting for one-third of the national budget . |
| 18 | Rapid economic development has vastly increased demand for water in recent years , and the expansion is expected to continue : the water needs of the urban population are expected to increase by 45 per cent in the next 20 years , with industry requiring 30 per cent more water and agriculture 14 per cent more . |
| 19 | It is anticipated to grow by a further 50 per cent in the next seven years . |
| 20 | And you know some years in advance if you 're in a secondary school erm that the total secondary school population is going to drop by , say , erm fifteen per cent in the next five years or whatever it might be . |
| 21 | The MTFS in 1980 planned for a reduction in public spending of 5 per cent over the next four years ; there was in fact an 8 per cent growth in real terms . |
| 22 | Centralised lender National Home Loans has a cap & collar deal where the mortgage interest rate will not rise above 14.49 per cent or fall below 10.99 per cent over the next five years .. |
| 23 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S involvement in undermining attempts to freeze carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 ( Guardian , November 8 ) should perhaps be viewed together with the Department of Transport 's recently announced road-building programme , and projections that UK road traffic will increase by about 43 per cent over the next 20-30 years . |
| 24 | MR TRISTAN Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , last night repeated the Government 's implacable opposition to plans of M Jacques Delors , EC Commission President , to raise the EC 's budget by 30 per cent over the next five years — a plan which would cost British taxpayers at least one billion pounds extra per year , writes Boris Johnson , EC Correspondent , in Luxembourg . |
| 25 | The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has constantly warned governments that the business of reducing carbon dioxide emissions ( by 60 per cent over the next two or three decades ) can not be put off any longer . |
| 26 | Britain , West Germany and the Netherlands want to reduce the scientists ' pay by 4½ per cent over the next three years . |
| 27 | British energy studies estimate that total energy consumption could be reduced by anything between 10 and 65 per cent over the next 35 years — depending on the political will . |
| 28 | The pit could ‘ reasonably ’ be projected to be profitable , although performance would have to be improved by 20 per cent over the next three years . |
| 29 | The Government is looking to increase student numbers by 25 per cent over the next three years . |
| 30 | Apart from Browne 's announcement that BP was increasing its North Sea investment by almost 10 per cent over the next three years , Shell outlined a scheme to spend £100 million refurbishing the Dunlin platform which will extend its economic life well into the next century . |