Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK GDP in 1992 is expected to be up 1.25 per cent , while chemical production growth is likely to be 2 per cent according to the CIA panel . |
| 2 | The law states that if the insured driver 's held to be just one per cent responsible , then his insurers have to pay . |
| 3 | It was characterized by a commitment to the policies of his predecessor , Tun Daim Zainuddin , who for seven years had kept the country on a course of fast economic growth ( with an average annual rate over the previous five years of 8.3 per cent ) , despite the threat of inflation , estimated to be over 5 per cent , and a worsening current-account balance . |
| 4 | Bryden ( 1967 ) found this proportion to be approximately 15 per cent . |
| 5 | Economic conditions were described as deteriorating , and economic growth was expected to be only 1 per cent in 1992 ( compared with 2.25 per cent in 1991 ) . |
| 6 | In these areas the turnout was estimated to be only 10 per cent . |
| 7 | The region 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) had shown a growth rate of 6 per cent in 1991 but the figure for 1992 was expected to be only 5.7 per cent . |
| 8 | If BA can resell $300m of its United investment — ideally to US citizens - then its remaining equity share could be said to be only 21 per cent , airline officials in New York argue . |
| 9 | The report projected a 3 per cent annual growth of per capita incomes in the developing world in the 1990s , with wide variations between east Asia , where income per capita was set to grow at 5.3 per cent , and sub-Saharan Africa , where the rate was expected to be only 0.5 per cent . |
| 10 | In rural areas , however , literacy in any language was estimated to be only 20 per cent . |
| 11 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 12 | Total union membership in RENFE appears to be about 46 per cent of the workforce . |
| 13 | In the long run , this was thought to be about 3 per cent per year . |
| 14 | Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent . |
| 15 | Firstly , individual trade unions raise the real wages of their members at the expense of non-unionised workers — in practice wages obtained by collective bargaining tend on average to be about 20 per cent higher than other wages . |
| 16 | We can not make forecasts , but in 1991-92 our aid is expected to be about 0.3 per cent . |
| 17 | Local authorities in London are estimating the figure to be about 15 per cent . |
| 18 | This turns out to be about 21.5 per cent of embedded overflow areas . |
| 19 | The results for Drouot salerooms for the first six months of 1992 proved to be almost ten per cent down on those of 1991 , a clear case of bad to worse which the Paris auctioneers said showed the art market had ‘ stabilised ’ . |
| 20 | The document is full of information about Dixons ' market share — reckoned to be around 16 per cent — and efforts to smarten up Dixons and Currys outlets . |
| 21 | Although no figures are yet available , this rate has probably flattened in 1990 and 1991 and may well prove to be around eight per cent or less at the current time . |
| 22 | Energy use in industry is thought to be around 50 per cent less efficient than in the West . |
| 23 | Turnout in the second round was reported to be around 20 per cent . |
| 24 | Although no incentive frills are attached to a National Savings Investment Account , the variable interest rate paid gross ( currently 11.75 per cent ) tends to be around 3 per cent higher than the best net rates offered by the major competitors . |
| 25 | Although no incentive frills are attached to a National Savings Investment Account , the variable interest rate paid gross ( currently 11.75 per cent ) tends to be around 3 per cent higher than the best net rates offered by the major competitors . |
| 26 | Although no incentive frills are attached to a National Savings Investment Account , the variable interest rate paid gross ( currently 11.75 per cent ) tends to be around 3 per cent higher than the best net rates offered by the major competitors . |
| 27 | The highest percentage of useful material I could find any editor to admit to was around 25 per cent and some quite literally stated that they did not bother with PR material at all . |
| 28 | ‘ So what we 're talking about is only 25 per cent of Marius Steen 's assets other than the houses . |