Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year . |
| 2 | Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court . |
| 3 | The economy of the Cayman Islands continued to grow during 1989 and 1990 , building on the 16 per cent growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in real terms recorded in 1988 . |
| 4 | There is a default on the 8 per cent Czechoslovak Republic dollar bonds of 1922 , and also on the Cities of Greater Prague and Carlsbad bonds issued in 1924 . |
| 5 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
| 6 | The level of settlements is well down on the eight per cent recorded in the first quarter a year ago . |
| 7 | This year the excitement has centred on the 23.7 per cent shareholding which Elders , the Australian group , has to cut to 9.9 per cent . |
| 8 | It is down on the 22.6 per cent the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured in the 1987 election . |
| 9 | Jean-Marie Le Pen 's extreme right party is now expected to get only 12-13 per cent of the vote , slightly down from its 13.6 per cent in the regional elections but up on the 9.6 per cent it won in the last general election five years ago . |
| 10 | The company notes that the relocation exercise was carried out without the help of an independent specialist relocation company which may have been able to ease staffs ' fears about moving to a new area and so possibly improve on the 50 per cent retention rate . |
| 11 | Government backbenchers effectively destroyed the Devolution Bill by insisting on the 40 per cent rule in the devolution referendum . |
| 12 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 13 | There could be no more revealing insight into the Government 's priorities than their obsessive concentration on the 8.7 per cent . |
| 14 | We expect to have an important debate tomorrow afternoon on the 20 per cent . |
| 15 | In response to a question in Parliament in 1984 , figures based on a 10 per cent sample were given of the comparative success rates of different types of representation . |
| 16 | Selling Old Trafford to a first-time buyer on a 100 per cent mortgage would be easier than selling Manchester for the 1996 Olympics . |
| 17 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 18 | Working for patients proposes that regions , and eventually districts , will be funded on a weighted per capita basis ( with an allowance to the Thames regions for higher prices in London ) . |
| 19 | Despite this concern , from the point of view of health care planning , the principle of funding authorities basically on a weighted per capita basis , with no allowance for cross-boundary flow , is to be welcomed . |
| 20 | Animal health profits rose 5 per cent on a 4 per cent higher turnover , and consumer brands ' profits were up 1 per cent , on a 12 per cent higher turnover . |
| 21 | Let the surface dry , then apply another coat of white stain mixed with matt polyurethane on a five per cent stain/ninety-five per cent polyurethane ratio . |
| 22 | However , Grundy ( 1986 ) , using data from the OPCS Longitudinal Study which is based on a 1 per cent sample of the 1971 Census linked to records from the 1981 Census , reports a similar pattern . |
| 23 | The government and its supporters eventually accepted this but then insisted on a 75 per cent majority applying to regional issues , including the country 's future status as a unitary or a federal state . |
| 24 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 25 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 26 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 27 | On a 56 per cent turnout , they gave Soglo 36.16 per cent of the votes , Kerekou 27.33 per cent , and their closest contender , Albert Tevoedjre , 14.24 per cent , provoking a second-round runoff between Kerekou and Soglo on March 24 . |
| 28 | Banking stoppages begun in February resulted in agreement on April 4 on a 5.4 per cent pay increase , backdated to Feb. 1 and applicable for 13 months , plus a one-off payment of DM |
| 29 | Coopers & Lybrand took issue with the official Red Book projections of growth rising to annualised 2 per cent rate in the second half of this year , climbing to 3½ per cent from 1993–94 to 1996–97 , and based its forecasts instead on a 2½ per cent growth rate . |
| 30 | On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided . |