Example sentences of "[adj] of [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Dr Von Tunzelmann has pointed out , if the same price data are used , with the Lancashire wage data it would produce an increase in real wages from 1750 to 1780 of around 20 per cent , while with southern wage data a fall of around 15 per cent appears . |
| 2 | Accordingly they forecast a decline in demand in the thirteen years after 1982/83 of around 25 per cent rather than around 35 per cent as implied by the general demographic decline ( see Jones , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | According to Smil ( 1984 ) , severe erosion is now symptomatic of c. 80 per cent of the region , of which more than half is very seriously affected . |
| 4 | The latest Confederation of British Industry economic forecast shows a decline in manufacturing investment in 1991 of almost 20 per cent . |
| 5 | On the high street a sales rise at Next Retail of just 3.6 per cent compared with an increase in trading space of 17.6 per cent speaks volumes about Next 's unbalanced expansion . |
| 6 | No borough showed a drop of over 50 per cent in the numbers paying and only four over 45 per cent , whereas two counties showed one of over 60 per cent , four more of between 50 and 60 per cent and one more of over 45 per cent . |
| 7 | Following on from this , a debtor-creditor agreement will be exempted if the annual percentage rate does not exceed the higher of either 13 per cent or 1 per cent more than the base rates of lending banks . |
| 8 | The meeting included representatives from 41 countries ( 27 of them African ) with a combined population of 420,000,000 , a total external debt in 1988 of US$69,300 million and a share in 1987 of only 0.7 per cent of world gross domestic product ( GDP ) and exports . |
| 9 | No borough showed a drop of over 50 per cent in the numbers paying and only four over 45 per cent , whereas two counties showed one of over 60 per cent , four more of between 50 and 60 per cent and one more of over 45 per cent . |
| 10 | In power since 1971 , he is a remarkable survivor among Arab leaders , the more so for being an Alawi — one of only 10 per cent of the Syrian population . |
| 11 | This showed some recovery until 19 6 7 or 1968 , followed by a further and very sharp decline , in particular of about 50 per cent . |
| 12 | The overall growth in GNP in 1990 of only 0.9 per cent was the weakest since 1982 . |