Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tariffs on imported cars would drop from 85 per cent to 60 per cent in 1991 and to 35 per cent by 1994 . |
| 2 | If put into effect , the plan will require pesticide use to be reduced by 35 per cent by 1995 and by 50 per cent by 2000 . |
| 3 | Land availability , the activities of speculative builders , and rapid association of suburban living with status and respectability , combined with the growing railway network , contrived to ensure that during the second half of the nineteenth century the population of London 's outer suburban ring grew by approximately 50 per cent in each of the ten years between 1861 and 1891 and by 45 per cent between 1891 and 1901 . |
| 4 | The number of people in the capital 's suburbs grew by about 50 per cent during each decade between 1861 and 1891 and by 45 per cent during the last ten years of the century . |
| 5 | Sweden raises its marginal intervention rate to 500 per cent ( although this is brought down to 50 per cent on Sept. 21 and to 40 per cent on Sept. 28 ) . |
| 6 | Lotus communications chief Patrick Peal said : ‘ Cars are cheaper and with one per cent off the base rate borrowing the money to buy a car is also cheaper . ’ |
| 7 | In the economic forecasts issued together with the budget the government predicted a rise in unemployment to 3.8 per cent in 1992 and to 4.5 per cent in 1993 ( the highest levels since 1945 ) , and a fall in gross domestic product by 0.2 per cent in 1992 ( after a fall of 1.3 per cent in 1991 ) to be followed by a rise of 1.9 per cent in 1993 . |
| 8 | This difference is now smaller — in 1988 10.2 per cent of first marital births to women with fathers in class I and II were pre-maritally conceived , compared with 24.1 per cent in class IV and V. Ten per cent of all births in 1988 in classes I and II , and 30 per cent to classes IV and V occurred illegitimately but within informal unions ( as inferred from the joint registration of their birth ) ( see Werner 1985 ) . |
| 9 | The Swedish Rijksbank raised its marginal intervention rate for lending to the banking system from 16 to 24 per cent on Sept. 8 and to 75 per cent the following day , when it also arranged a currency loan of ECU16,000 million to support the krona . |
| 10 | The Swiss National Bank 's discount rate was lowered from 7 to 6.5 per cent on Sept. 14 and to 6 per cent on Sept. 25 . |
| 11 | Although the sustained overall economic growth over the years 1987-89 brought the country to the verge of being given NIC ( newly industrialized country ) status , early forecasts predicted that gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth would slow down in 1990 to around 6.5 per cent , from an estimated 7.3-7.5 per cent in 1989 and from 8.7 per cent in 1988 . |
| 12 | Procurement spending for 1990 would rise by 2.7 per cent in real terms to F103,000 million and by 4 per cent in 1991 to F107,000 million . |
| 13 | The continued buoyancy of domestic demand , which grew by 7.7 per cent in 1988 and by 6 per cent in the first half of 1989 , was cited as the principal factor behind the economy 's broad-based expansion . |
| 14 | ‘ For 40 years both of those parties have grabbed power on the basis of 40 per cent of the electorate at most and with 60 per cent against . |
| 15 | Total government deficits fluctuated between 1 per cent of output in the recession years of 1958 and 1967 and minus 1 per cent in the boom years of 1955 , 1960 and 1969 . |
| 16 | As a proportion of total population , this represents a decrease from 65.2 per cent in 1801 to just under one-half in 1851 and to 17.6 per cent in 1939 . |
| 17 | Government targets already agreed with the IMF included reducing the fiscal deficit from 6.1 per cent in 1989 to 2.5 per cent in 1990 ; reducing inflation from 89.3 per cent to 37.7 per cent in 1990 and to 30 per cent in 1991 ; and achieving growth of 2 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) during 1990 . |