Example sentences of "per [no cls] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present there is a 40 per cent first year allowance , with 25 per cent reducing balance each year thereafter . |
| 2 | Investment allowances also remain unchanged after last year 's introduction of a 40 per cent first year rate . |
| 3 | The trip begins at a Eucharistic Congress in Seoul intended to put the seal on the Catholic Church 's extraordinary progress in Korea , where the number of believers has grown from a post-war 200,000 to more than 2.5 million , and is increasing by 10 per cent each year . |
| 4 | Increases necessary to meet the new rate demands were limited to 15 per cent each year for smaller businesses and 20 per cent each year for larger businesses . |
| 5 | Increases necessary to meet the new rate demands were limited to 15 per cent each year for smaller businesses and 20 per cent each year for larger businesses . |
| 6 | In the past decade demand for food rose by just 0.5 per cent each year while production went up by 1.8 per cent each year |
| 7 | In the past decade demand for food rose by just 0.5 per cent each year while production went up by 1.8 per cent each year |
| 8 | Despite its rate of return target , the average between 1984 and 1988 was 12.7 per cent , slipping to 12.4 per cent last year . |
| 9 | Top managers enjoyed an average increase in earnings of 17.8 per cent last year , according to the latest , from Charterhouse ; like P-E Inbucon 's , its results suggest that Lord King of British Airways was , shall we say , a bit ahead of the pack . |
| 10 | The Big Three US carmakers , who controlled more than 85 per cent of the luxury market 10 years ago , saw their share drop to below 50 per cent last year . |
| 11 | The old Escorts went up more than 12 per cent last year , the last rise coming just a couple of weeks before the introduction of the new model . |
| 12 | In 1987 , the last year for which complete figures are available , foreign investment accounted for 7.6 per cent of US stocks ( up sharply to 8.9 per cent last year ) , while foreign share of US manufacturing was 12.2 per cent , and of US employment a much smaller 3.5 per cent . |
| 13 | Fleet diesel sales grew by 15.6 per cent last year , and Brookman naturally wants it known that Peugeot picked up the lion 's share . |
| 14 | And the share of military expenditure devoted to purchases of new equipment will grow from 23 per cent last year to 39 per cent in five years ' time . |
| 15 | Manufacturing companies there boosted output by 8 per cent last year , and staff by 3.5 per cent — almost 20,000 jobs . |
| 16 | THE number of hard-up homebuyers asking housing charity Shelter for help soared by 50 per cent last year . |
| 17 | NATIONAL Power boss John Baker 's pay soared by 157 PER CENT last year , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 18 | And the Government was forced to admit that the shattered economy shrank by 2.4 per cent last year — the biggest annual fall since records began in 1948 . |
| 19 | TYPISTS rang up an average pay rise of 7.6 per cent last year — almost double the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | Despite corn acreage increasing by ten per cent last year , nitrogen fertilizer sales dropped by more than ten per cent . |
| 21 | Aluminium recycling in the UK rose to 9.5 per cent last year . |
| 22 | While the country as a whole had a a rise of twenty two per cent last year . |
| 23 | Welcome back : The number of children excluded or expelled from schools in the Central South area rose by forty-two per cent last year , yet the facilties to help them still vary widely . |
| 24 | There are fewer shortages and queues are rare but inflation , at 2,000 per cent last year , means that prices are outside the reach of many . |
| 25 | Total income for Scottish farmers rose 42 per cent last year , to £240 million . |
| 26 | The unemployment rate increased by 31 per cent last year , compared to an overall Scottish rise of 10 per cent . |
| 27 | The economy remains stagnant , yet share prices rose 15 per cent last year and another 5 per cent up to the beginning of this week . |
| 28 | Money GDP rose 3.8 per cent last year before inflation , and the index of total home costs rose 4.4 per cent , while gross national disposable income , in real terms , fell 0.8 per cent . |
| 29 | Further cost-cutting at Wimpey saw the workforce cut by another 10 per cent last year , taking UK numbers down to 10,300 employees , from 14,500 three years ago . |
| 30 | The US economy grew by over 2 per cent last year , with growth in the final quarter revised up to an annual rate of 4.75 per cent . |