Example sentences of "including a [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affecting the coal , oil , gas , petrochemical and metallurgical industries and the railways , it featured a package of incentives including a 5 per cent pay rise for workers for each percentage point by which monthly output in their enterprise exceeded average output in January-April 1991 , and the right of enterprises to sell for their own profit 10 per cent of their output on the domestic market . |
| 2 | The introduction of new austerity measures , including a 10 per cent reduction in senior civil service posts and sharp cuts in travel allowances for government officials , was announced by Prime Minister Rao on Dec. 24 . |
| 3 | Thousands of demonstrators protested in Tehran on July 6-12 against recent price rises including a 500 per cent rise in bus fares . |
| 4 | The crime rate rose by 61 per cent in 1990 as compared with 1989 , including a 176 per cent rise in burglaries and a 34 per cent rise in murder . |
| 5 | Other estimates indicated that the economic targets of the 1986-91 five-year economic and social development plan , including a 25 per cent growth in the economy over the plan period , were unlikely to be attained . |
| 6 | It formed part of a package including a 6 per cent pay rise over one year beginning on June 1 , supplemented by one-off payments to cover April and May , and it was agreed that 18 per cent of the workers in a plant would be allowed to volunteer to work a 40-hour week in the interests of flexibility . |
| 7 | The only gleam of hope the Prime Minister could offer was that the Cabinet had on the previous day agreed to ask the Bank of England whether an increase of cuts from 56 million to 76 million , including a ten per cent cut in unemployment benefits , would be enough to ensure an American loan . |