Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the full nine months the company saw profits decline 21 per cent to $133.6m and turnover fall 2 per cent to $2104.7m . |
| 2 | Compared with 1988 , gross national product ( GNP ) was up 3 per cent in 1989 , national income 2 per cent , industrial output 1.7 per cent and labour productivity 3 per cent ( all at " comparable prices " ) . |
| 3 | This time the ‘ do n't knows ’ won with 36 per cent ; Mr Brown , former California governor , took 33 per cent and Mr Clinton 30 per cent . |
| 4 | Mr Clerides took 36.74 per cent in the first round and Mr Paschalides 18.54 per cent . |
| 5 | The main sources of their average weekly income during the strike were personal savings constituting 45 per cent of all income , wives ' earnings 17 per cent , supplementary benefit 16 per cent and tax rebates 10 per cent . |
| 6 | By the early 1970s a typical continental European country was devoting a little over 20 per cent of GDP to social expenditure , the United States and United Kingdom 17–18 per cent , and Japan 10 per cent . |
| 7 | From 1951 to 1955 manufacturing output rose 14 per cent , car production 87 per cent and steel production 21.5 per cent . |
| 8 | Only retail showed continued rises with rental values up slightly and capital values 0.6 per cent higher , pushing the annual total return up from 10.2 per cent to 10.7 per cent . |
| 9 | Industrial production in 1992 was expected to be 20 per cent down , and capital investment 50-55 per cent down , compared with 1991 . |
| 10 | Between 1923 and 1939 unemployment rates in these hard-hit industries were high : shipbuilding 38.8 per cent ( on average ) , cotton textiles 20.7 per cent , and coal mining 19.8 per cent . |