Example sentences of "for a [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Federation of Venezuelan Workers ( CTV ) had demanded a halt to large-scale redundancies in the public sector , and by February 1991 was predicting mass demonstrations and strikes if the government rejected its claim for a 45 per cent wage increase and for a minimum wage equivalent to $188 per month . |
| 2 | Mr Parkinson recently signalled ministerial concern by blocking BR 's plans for a 14 per cent fare rise in February . |
| 3 | BASF blamed the high costs of restructuring for a 16 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the first nine months of 1991 , from DM 2336m ( £1 = DM2.85 ) to DM 1962m . |
| 4 | As a result of Peruvian opposition , the meeting failed to approve a Colombian plan , supported by the USA , for a 70 per cent reduction in cocaine production by the end of the decade . |
| 5 | With a 1989 inflation rate of 5.4 per cent , the Council of Economic Ministers approved a new set of anti-inflation measures on Dec. 11 , 1989 , although Finance Minister Pramual Sabhavasu refused to raise interest rates , rejecting a request from the Bank of Thailand ( the central bank ) for a 1.5-2 per cent increase in the maximum loan rate . |
| 6 | By the end of the day the raid was complete ; Tiphook had paid £7.7 million for a 9.9 per cent slice of its main competitor . |
| 7 | The union settled , in the face of the Government 's public criticisms , for a fifteen per cent pay rise . |
| 8 | IG Metall had opened region-by-region negotiations in this sector on March 4 but employers rejected demands for a 9.5 per cent increase , offering instead 3.3 per cent . |
| 9 | Erm we believe that er where in cases of erm misappropriated or fraud , the compensation fund should be for a hundred per cent of what has gone . |
| 10 | The 1991 budget presented by Finance Minister Albert Reynolds on Jan. 30 provided for a 1 percentage point reduction in both the standard and the higher rate of income tax , and for a 4 per cent increase in welfare payments . |
| 11 | Since the mid 1970s this source has brought together information from census and vital registration records for a one per cent sample of the population of England and Wales . |
| 12 | On July 9 , despite Cresson 's earlier comments on the dangers of Japanese companies infiltrating French industry , the government announced that the Japanese informatics concern NEC would be allowed to exchange its 15 per cent stake in Bull 's US subsidiary , Bull HN , for a 4.7 per cent stake in the parent company , although the government would retain the right to call back the shares under certain conditions . |
| 13 | For a 1 per cent concentration in the same amount of base oil , add 10 drops of essential oil ; for a 2 per cent concentration , add 20 drops and for 3 per cent , add 30 drops . |
| 14 | Under the scheme , the top 40 staff will pay about £3.3m for a five per cent share stake in LWT . |
| 15 | But Mr Fallon has criticised the county for only budgeting for a five per cent salary increase . |
| 16 | Oil and petroleum workers threatened industrial action in support of demands for a 310 per cent salary adjustment , for an end to plans to privatize the state oil company PETROBRAS , and the reinstatement of 800 colleagues dismissed in government cutbacks . |
| 17 | Managers say that prudent lending and a close knowledge of local people are the reasons for a 34 per cent leap in net profits . |
| 18 | Jim Smith , the manager whose shrewd tactical plan stifled Liverpool in last week 's 1–1 draw at Highbury , has called for a 10 per cent improvement from his players in tonight 's replay — and more of the same from the supporters . |
| 19 | Again , quote Country Living when booking for a 10 per cent discount . |
| 20 | It is then assumed that these mortality measures correctly reflect more general health ( or morbidity ) differentials and , furthermore , that 10 per cent extra resources are needed to compensate for a 10 per cent excess risk . |
| 21 | Envisaging a 4 per cent real growth in 1990 , it provided for a 10 per cent reduction in public expenditure , a wage increase for public employees , and the establishment of shops to sell basic items at low cost . |
| 22 | Public-sector workers began industrial action on April 27 — the first such action in the sector since 1974 — after employers rejected a mediating panel 's proposal for a 5.4 per cent wage rise on the grounds that it failed " to take account of current economic conditions " . |
| 23 | The council of the Association of University Teachers backed a claim drawn up by the union 's executive for a 27 per cent pay rise from next April . |
| 24 | The Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo had already refused a demand for a 27 per cent increase in military salaries , in line with his March efforts to control inflation [ see pp. 38095-96 ] . |
| 25 | It provided for a 3.1 per cent increase in overall spending , to a total of F1,330,360 million , against a predicted inflation rate of 2.8 per cent ( US$1.00=F5.6999 as at Sept. 16 , 1991 ) . |
| 26 | In 1990 teachers in five provinces went on strike for a 100 per cent rise . |
| 27 | The predictions made by Johnson were tested by simulation studies , which showed that even for a 100 per cent packed file , if the discipline he recommended is adhered to , the average number of accesses can be kept down to 1.5 per retrieval , and for larger bucket sizes this is reduced to around 1.25 . |
| 28 | In an earlier dispute 8,000 diamond miners belonging to the NUM had cut diamond production by the De Beers mining company by a third in mid-October 1989 in support of a demand for a 26.6 per cent wage increase . |
| 29 | The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie . |
| 30 | The initial proposal was for a 60 per cent cut in sulphur dioxide and a 40 per cent cut in dust and NOx , on 1980 levels , by 1995 . |