Example sentences of "[prep] 5 per " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the mounting balance-of-payments crisis , the TUC was reluctantly persuaded in the summer of 1976 to renew a virtual wage-freeze policy with a limit of 5 per cent increases for the next twelve months . |
| 2 | For example , a writer who signs an agreement with a 60:40 split may be able to negotiate a rise of 5 per cent in every year of the contract . |
| 3 | In the second half of 1982 , however , Britain 's inflation rate fell to the OECD average of 5 per cent and then steadily declined to 2.5 per cent in July 1986 , the lowest figure since 1967 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the period 1979 — 87 the bottom 10 per cent of earners made net gains of 5 per cent , the top 1 o per cent gains of 28 per cent . |
| 6 | In spite of such cuts total social security spending continued to increase as a proportion of GDP — by an average of 5 per cent in real terms — in OECD states between 1975 and 1985 . |
| 7 | Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue . |
| 8 | The minimum investment is set at £500 with an initial charge of 5 per cent plus an annual fee of 1 per cent . |
| 9 | It is not going to require all schemes to increase pensions in payment by up to a maximum of 5 per cent a year . |
| 10 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 11 | A colourless gas with a faint tang , it can produce narcosis and even ( after a lengthy exposure at a concentration of 5 per cent or more ) unconsciousness and death , but it is as a greenhouse gas emitted in the course of producing man-made energy that it has become central to our end-of-century concerns . |
| 12 | They have been used in the UK for many years and legislation allows the addition of 5 per cent of CBE fats ( about 15 per cent of the fat phase ) , and the product can still be called chocolate . |
| 13 | The schools where staff had made little or no input into financial decisions were both experiencing cutbacks equivalent to a cut of 5 per cent to 10 per cent of teaching staff . |
| 14 | Since 1980 DLOs have had to make a return of 5 per cent on capital . |
| 15 | Prescribing by general practitioners is increasing at the rate of 5 per cent per year , and is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the budget of the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 16 | They paid the balance in monthly or quarterly payments spread over one , two or three years with interest at the rate of 5 per cent a year . |
| 17 | Thus , for example , for an inflation of 5 per cent , BT 's prices were allowed to rise by 2 per cent . |
| 18 | Assuming a constant rate of inflation of 5 per cent per annum , the real value of the relief would decline by a compounded figure of 39 per cent over 10 years and , if inflation were at a constant 10 per cent per annum , the corresponding decline would be 61 per cent . |
| 19 | It was February 1979 : a group of four unions had refused to accept a pay limit of 5 per cent imposed by the Government on all public service workers . |
| 20 | By 1979 women had still to reach the level of 5 per cent of candidates returned to Westminster in any one general election . |
| 21 | Furthermore , in their returns to the research team , administrators in some LEAs spoke of 5 per cent as their target population for statements , while elsewhere it was considered that as many as 18 per cent could require a statement . |
| 22 | Above all else , Baker understood the essential role of compromise in executive-legislative relations and it was the LSG that prevailed upon Reagan to give ground on the tax cut by accepting reductions of 5 per cent — 10 per cent — 10 per cent in three successive years in place of the 10 per cent — 10 per cent — 10 per cent of Kemp-Roth . |
| 23 | Ineichen ( 1987 ) suggests an approximate dementia prevalence rate of 2.9 per cent of those aged 65 + while Brayne and Ames ( 1988 ) favour a rate of 5 per cent . |
| 24 | Illegitimate births formed only a small number of the total registered births before 1750 , but by the end of the eighteenth century an illegitimacy ratio of 5 per cent was common and by the middle of the nineteenth century 20 per cent was often the norm . |
| 25 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 26 | Your biggest priority if you suffer overtime levels in excess of 5 per cent is to improve manpower scheduling practices to achieve a 5 per cent maximum . |
| 27 | Where such projects did produce their ‘ fair return ’ ( a minimum of 5 per cent ) , their tenants were drawn from the relatively prosperous upper working class of artisans , and not from the truly indigent for whom they were intended . |
| 28 | By a letter dated 7 March 1983 the plaintiff formally appointed the defendants as agents to sell Caliban at a price of $3.5m. or such sum as the plaintiff might agree to accept , the defendants to be paid a commission of 5 per cent . |
| 29 | Larner set the figure at 10 per cent , and in his later study , with the process of dispersal having become even more marked , Herman acknowledged that a holding of 5 per cent or more ‘ begins to approach non-negligibility from the standpoint of corporate power ’ . |
| 30 | This time she insisted on negotiating direct with the manufacturer , but agreed to pay Colin a finder 's fee of 5 per cent if the order came up to scratch . |