Example sentences of "rise of [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the reign total land revenue came to about £100,000 , a rise of nearly 25 per cent , compared with a price rise of about 75 per cent . |
| 2 | Between 1979 and 1999 the number increased from 55,300 to 97,900 , a rise of over 70 per cent . |
| 3 | Nominal wages in 1990 repeated their 1989 rise of over 100 per cent . |
| 4 | On March 18 the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of social policy , Aleksandr Shokhin , announced a rise of over 100 per cent in the minimum wage from April , and a near doubling of pension rates . |
| 5 | Net tonnage of goods broke the four million tonne mark reaching 4,001,353 tonnes — a rise of over three per cent . |
| 6 | The Chancellor announced a rise of around 6.5 per cent for all tobacco products , pushing the price of 20 cigarettes up by about 10p . |
| 7 | The Chancellor announced a rise of around 6.5 per cent for all tobacco products , pushing the price of 20 cigarettes up by about 10p . |
| 8 | It certainly permits a rise of almost 100 per cent in the structural funds , and should especially benefit the three most recent members of the EC . |
| 9 | And it adds : ‘ Richard Oster , of the Cookson engineering group , may have been happy to make do on £628,611 , a rise of only four per cent , as his company recorded a fall in profits of 65 per cent . ’ |
| 10 | ENROLMENT of full-time students in English polytechnics has increased by 47 per cent over the last eight years , compared with a rise of only 3 per cent in universities , Her Majesty 's Inspectors said yesterday . |
| 11 | By the end of the reign total land revenue came to about £100,000 , a rise of nearly 25 per cent , compared with a price rise of about 75 per cent . |
| 12 | The Department of Trade caught 31 bosses red-handed — a rise of about 50 per cent . |
| 13 | The pact was designed to allow the Reserve Bank of New Zealand ( central bank ) , which had anticipated wage rises of around 5 per cent ( the current rate of inflation ) , to relax its tight monetary policy and to reduce interest and mortgage rates accordingly . |