Example sentences of "cent [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Democrats in the House , led by the chairman of the Ways and Means committee , Dan Rostenkowski , drew up a plan to raise from 28 per cent to 33 per cent taxes on the most wealthy and to impose a 10 per cent surtax on incomes of more than $100,000 . |
| 2 | Local authorities will be given a 50 per cent grant towards the cost of each shelter . |
| 3 | A major element in this was a proposed 100 per cent grant to local authorities on the capital cost of providing gypsy caravan sites . |
| 4 | The trust at this stage had not one penny to its name but the Historic Buildings Council came forward with a ninety per cent grant for emergency works . |
| 5 | Government offered a 50 per cent grant for such work , which remained in force after the War . |
| 6 | In practice , this meant that a polytechnic or college of higher education could obtain a 100 per cent grant for that proportion of the establishment 's work which fell within the definition of ‘ poolable advanced further education ’ as agreed by local authorities . |
| 7 | The New Era Housing Association has won a 100 per cent grant for a £245,000 six unit development at Derwent Park , Loftus . |
| 8 | The Bradford and Northern Housing Association will receive a 100 per cent grant for the £370 , unit development at Abbeyfield in Yarm . |
| 9 | Ask him if he intends always to be faithful , and you 've get a 99.9 per cent change of him saying yes . |
| 10 | Every one per cent change of moisture content may cause about a half per cent shrinkage or swelling . |
| 11 | The pancreatic blood flow was recorded in ml/ min/100 g tissues as displayed on the digital panel meter and presented either in absolute value or as per cent change from control value obtained in rats infused with saline . |
| 12 | If one EC currency rose from its floor to its ceiling against the dollar , whilst another fell from its ceiling to its floor , there would be a 9 per cent change in the relative values of the two currencies . |
| 13 | Bach ( 1978 , 1979 ) studied data on weather and corn yield in the United States Corn Belt states from 1901 to 1972 and estimated that corn production in those states would change by about 11 per cent for every 1 °C change in average maximum temperature over the growing season , and by about 15 per cent for each 10 per cent change in precipitation . |
| 14 | The Socialist Party ( PS ) is trailing badly with around 20 per cent support with the ecologists close behind . |
| 15 | The last major opinion poll in this country , by NOP in 1989 , showed 75 per cent support for legalised euthanasia . |
| 16 | The in-betweens , a group of five fields ( Cumberland , Durham , Derbyshire , Lancashire — or Northwest — and Northumberland ) which provided the 55 per cent vote at each of the first two ballots but on average produced only 42 per cent support for the strike call across the other four . |
| 17 | Opinion poll ratings which had indicated persistently poor support for Labour had most recently shown 63 per cent support for the opposition National Party and only 28 per cent for the government , and widespread dissatisfaction with Palmer 's leadership . |
| 18 | Opinion polls in August had shown 55 per cent support for the party , the highest level since its foundation in 1947 , and its membership stood at a record 5,400,000 members , or some 7 per cent of the adult population . |
| 19 | A Gallup Poll in August found only 31 per cent support for the United States with 49 per cent against . |
| 20 | Sir Hugh Byatt , Dragon 's chairman , said last night : ‘ The 39.71 per cent support for the Dragon offer suggests that the reconstruction proposals may not , therefore , be put to shareholders for approval . ’ |
| 21 | A public opinion poll showed 55 per cent support for the students and 60 per cent for a ‘ new society ’ . |
| 22 | Where they fielded candidates they won 25 per cent support on average . |
| 23 | Similarly , four of the five in the ‘ in-between ’ group held a ballot , with 52 per cent support in Northumberland , 50 per cent in Derbyshire , 41 per cent in Lancashire , and just 8 per cent in Cumberland ; there was no ballot in Durham . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister of Mauritius , Anerood Jugnauth , narrowly failed on Aug. 21 to secure the necessary 75 per cent support in the Legislative Assembly for proposals to change the country 's constitution by making it a republic within the Commonwealth . |
| 25 | Prior to the debate Clinton had appeared to be marginally ahead of his rivals , having made some effective speeches and achieved 54 per cent support in a non-binding straw poll at the Florida Democratic convention . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , an opinion poll taken in the first week of December gave the Alliance 37 per cent support amongst the electorate , two points ahead of the opposition Labour Party and 10 points in front of the governing National Party . |
| 27 | Given the 98 to 100 per cent support from dairy farmers it is looking for , that would mean it still bought virtually all the milk in its area while processing and selling much of it through its commercial company Scottish Pride . |
| 28 | Last weekend the Yorkshire Building Society announced a 1.5 per cent rise to 15 per cent in the wake of the one-point rise in base rates . |
| 29 | Kwik Save , the supermarket group , gave retiring chairman Ian Howe a 43 per cent rise to £187,000 . |
| 30 | The UK accounted for the largest downward revision for GDP in 1991 , from a 0.5 per cent rise to a 2 per cent fall , noted Freeman . |