Example sentences of "rise [prep] [adv] [num] [no cls] cent " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The pre-tax rate of profit for business rose from about 17 per cent in 1955 to 24 per cent in 1961 . |
| 2 | The conviction rate for these latter offences rose from around five per cent in the 1860s to fifteen per cent in the twentieth century . |
| 3 | Public borrowing rose to nearly 10 per cent of national income — equivalent to £55,000 million today . |
| 4 | The proportion of the population over 60 rose to nearly 29 per cent by 1980 , most of them women . |
| 5 | While expenditure was reduced after this , by the 1960s , with the entry of the United States into the Vietnam conflict , it rose to around 10 per cent of GDP once more . |
| 6 | The quickening pace of commerce increased the urban population : a mere 3 per cent of the population in 1700 , it rose to about 8 per cent in 1800 and reached around 11 per cent by the 1850s . |
| 7 | For the 1975 Convention election , the proportion rose to almost eighty per cent : fourteen out of eighteen . |
| 8 | Certainly US inflation subsequently had been extremely low ; between 1952 and 1967 the US wholesale price index rose at only 0.8 per cent a year . |
| 9 | But book and magazine sales at Smiths rose by nearly six per cent . |
| 10 | For the ACCs as a whole real take-home pay rose by nearly 1 per cent per year faster in the early 1970s than in the 1960s , despite the slowdown in productivity growth ( table 11.9 ) . |
| 11 | Fallow land rose by nearly 30 per cent to 37,000 hectares , of which just over 24,000 hectares was set-aside under the fallow option . |
| 12 | Between 1966 and 1975 , real earnings per employee rose by nearly 90 per cent in RENFE , although they were starting from a very low base in absolute terms ( Ferner and Fina 1988 ) . |
| 13 | He believed a truer picture of the company 's performance was given by earnings figures calculated on a current-cost basis , which rose by just 8 per cent to £3.1 billion on turnover which fell by more than £1 billion to £73 billion . |
| 14 | Forte announced a group pre-tax profit fall of 62 per cent from £190 million to £73 million on turnover which rose by just one per cent to £2.66 billion . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | But the bill for nurses ' and midwives ' pay rose by just 60 PER CENT in the same period . |
| 17 | Exports in convertible currencies — not including trade with the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( COMECON ) — rose by approximately 4 per cent , with a resulting trade deficit of $763,000,000 in 1989 , compared with $350,000,000 in 1988 . |
| 18 | Foreign investment in 1989 rose by almost 76 per cent to 8,600 million ringgits , and it was expected that the upward trend would be maintained for 1990 . |
| 19 | The main engines of growth were capital spending ( under the June Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) agreement [ see below ; p. 36892 ] the Japanese government committed itself to spend 430,000,000 million yen ( US$3,200,000 million ) on public works over the next 10 years ) and domestic consumption ( domestic demand rose by almost 6 per cent during the year ) . |
| 20 | Between 1979-80 and 1990-91 , the total of new studentships awarded by research councils rose by almost 28 per cent . |
| 21 | For 1990 as a whole , GNP rose by around 0.9 per cent , compared with 2.5 per cent in 1989 . |
| 22 | New house prices rose by around 50 per cent in the United Kingdom between early 1972 and early 1973 . |
| 23 | Since manufacturing productivity rose by only 2.9 per cent a year between 1962 and 1964 , this implied some combination of higher inflation and lower profitability . |
| 24 | The year saw an increase of 15 per cent in such applications , while the fund rose by only 4 per cent . |
| 25 | So , in this example , although money national income rose by 100 per cent , real output per capita rose by only 25 per cent . |
| 26 | British Airways chief Lord King ‘ must have been delighted with his 64 per cent pay rise as BA 's profits rose by only 19 per cent , ’ says the report . |
| 27 | The number of people classified as in civilian employment rose by only 29 per cent between 1952 and 1973 . |
| 28 | If he talks about pensioners , he should let the facts speak for themselves : under the previous Labour Government , the real average income of pensioners rose by only 3 per cent . |
| 29 | But as a share of GDP , workers ' savings rose by only 3 per cent while investment leaped up by 13 per cent . |
| 30 | The semi-annual World Economic Outlook of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , published in May 1990 , indicated that the rate of expansion of the world economy in 1990 , was likely to be the lowest since 1982 , but suggested that it would not be as severe as 1982 when world output rose by only 0.5 per cent . |