Example sentences of "equivalent to [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | These imports reached on average over 10 million koku a year in the late 1920s , equivalent to over 15 per cent of annual domestic production . |
| 2 | For example , the Hospice des Enfants-Trouvés in Paris , founded 1670 , was admitting several thousand babies a year by the 1770s , equivalent to over 20 per cent of the yearly baptisms in Paris , although almost half came from outside the city , and 13 per cent into the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | However , at present , they spend only $800 million on population programmes , equivalent to just 1.2 per cent of their total aid budget . |
| 4 | Revenues from oil and gas production were expected to amount to around 20,000 million kroner in 1990 , equivalent to nearly 7 per cent of the national budget . |
| 5 | For example , if interest rates are currently 12 per cent on other equivalent assets , a £100 000 bill will be sold for approximately £97 000 , which will earn the purchaser an approximately 3 per cent rate of discount over the three months , which is equivalent to approximately 12 per cent per annum . |
| 6 | Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year . |
| 7 | Thus the incomes of the lone parents were equivalent to about 57 per cent of those of the couples . |
| 8 | On April 5 , in a move to calm financial markets , to halt an outflow of capital and to avoid a devaluation , the government announced public-sector expenditure cuts of FM10,000 million , equivalent to about 2 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , to be made in 1993 . |
| 9 | According to Sedjo and Clawson ( 1984 ) plantation forests on a global basis occupy some 9 × 10 7 ha which is equivalent to about 3 per cent of the extent of the world 's closed forests . |
| 10 | Total spending was put at TSh206,000 million , a rise of 45 per cent in local currency terms from the 1989/90 budget estimate of TSh142,000 million ( because of the devaluation of the shilling , the rise was equivalent to only 9 per cent in dollar terms ) . |
| 11 | The report stated that the unified state 's foreign debt was equivalent to around 110 per cent of its combined GNP , putting it on a par with Jordan and Morocco in terms of debt burden . |