Example sentences of "[noun] by [adv] [adv] [adj] per " in BNC.
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1 | Over the previous 12 months the portfolio underperformed its expected rate of return by just over 2.5 per cent . |
2 | The use of low-sulphur coal reduces sulphur output by only about 50 per cent , compared with the 90 per cent removal that can be achieved with FGD . |
3 | Koch claims his brothers undervalued Koch Industries by as much 65 per cent . |
4 | The Council of State ( its constitutional decision making role , which the previous Stroessner regime had ignored , restored by Rodriguez ) on April 14 had decreed a 30 per cent increase in civil servants ' wages and increased the national budget by just over 33 per cent . |
5 | Doubling rail traffic would cut carbon dioxide emissions by only about 3 per cent . |