Example sentences of "[unc] [prep] the us " in BNC.
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| 1 | A February 1991 decision to devalue the Guyanan dollar by 56 per cent ( from G$45 to G$101.75 to the US dollar ) led to sharp increases in food , fuel and transport costs . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Standard Chartered announced on Oct. 9 that it had filed a fraud claim involving US$41,000,000 against the US bank Citibank in New York over transactions in Bombay between September 1991 and March 1992 . |
| 3 | British three-month rates stood at 10.7% in February , compared to 9.5% in Germany , 5.3% in Japan and 4.3% in the US . |
| 4 | The film is rated PG13 in the US , which means children under 13 have to be accompanied by an adult . |
| 5 | IBM Europe only began shipping its ThinkPad 700T pen-based portable at the end of February ( CI No 2,113 ) , but already the company has announced its successor — the 710T in the US . |
| 6 | Each party to the conference , including the Palestinian representation , was understood to have received during the second half of October a separate " letter of assurances ' from the US government . |
| 7 | Sargent applies the above method to the model in equations ( 3.51 ) with m = 4 using quarterly data on the five-year government bond rate and the 91-day Treasury bill rate for the period 1953(2) to 1971(4) in the US : we reproduce his results in table 3.2 . |
| 8 | The leone had been devalued from Le66 to Le125 to the US dollar in January ; on April 25 a floating exchange rate system was introduced whereby the rate was fixed weekly by the central bank according to market conditions . |
| 9 | And I can tell you , buddy boy , that he 's Persona non grata with the US vehicle divisions after his comments about the future European trend toward smaller fuel economy vehicles at the EPC meeting . ’ |
| 10 | This will reduce the annual emissions of CO2 in the US by 70 million tonnes by 2010 . |
| 11 | ORACLE BENEFITS FROM TAKE-UP OF ORACLE7 IN THE US ; CURRENCY HURTS IN EUROPE |
| 12 | As soon as his guests had left , Eden summoned his senior ministers and the Chiefs of Staff ( plus Jean Chauvel , the French Ambassador , and Andrew Foster , Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in London ) to the Cabinet Room . |
| 13 | Of world biotechnology patents recently documented , patents obtained by Europeans accounted for only 19 per cent of the total compared to 41 per cent for the US and 36 per cent for Japan . |
| 14 | Invisible receipts as a percentage of GNP are the highest of all for the UK with 20.5 per cent compared with 4.8 per cent for the US and 5.6 per cent for Japan . |
| 15 | Under a 1985 accord between the United States and other steel-producing countries that lapsed on 30 September , EC firms are limited to 6.74 per cent of the US market . |
| 16 | Recognising that food is one of the most innovative industries , he has forced strong links with companies such as Du Pont , ICI and Pioneer — it has 56 per cent of the US seeds market — to pursue opportunities in plant biotechnology . |
| 17 | Afro-Americans and Hispanics account for 12 and 6 per cent of the US population respectively , but take only 8 and 4 per cent of psychology degrees , and 4 and 3 per cent of Ph.Ds . |
| 18 | Studies of lesbian subjects are particularly infrequent. 18 per cent of the US studies of homosexuality reviewed by Morin ( 1977 ) investigated lesbians , and a further 10 per cent examined both lesbians and gay men . |
| 19 | Over the fullness of time , in spite of revolution , civil war and world war , performance relative to competitors has not been lacklustre : compared with 1913 , when per capita GNP stood at 24.6 per cent of the US level , the 1984 ratio was 46 per cent . |
| 20 | Last year 's expenditures by NASA of $ 902 million barely exceeds three per cent of the US civil aviation industry 's sales last year of $29 ; million . |
| 21 | Those carrying the disabling genes of schizophrenia , manic depression and low intelligence may constitute ten more per cent of the US or European population . |
| 22 | The previous agreement , which had limited steel imports to 18.4 per cent of the US market , and which had expired on Sept. 30 , 1989 , was extended for 2@1/2 years . |
| 23 | This would include 34 per cent of the US Army 's total effective strength , a larger proportion ( albeit a smaller absolute number ) than had ever been deployed in Vietnam . |
| 24 | The citation only of India , ranked 27th in US overseas markets and with a bilateral trade surplus of $850,000,000 , accounting for only 1 per cent of the US deficit , was seen by most observers as evidence that the administration was anxious not to create ill feeling which might jeopardize the " Uruguay Round " of the multinational trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 25 | In mid-1990 the three largest US companies selling canned tuna fish , accounting for 70 per cent of the US market , had announced that they would no longer buy tuna caught in nets which also caught dolphins . |
| 26 | Figures from the Federal Elections Commission and the Census Bureau suggested that 35 per cent of the US electorate — some 65,000,000 potential voters — were unregistered , and that a high proportion of these were poor and were members of minority communities , the traditional constituents of the Democratic Party . |
| 27 | For example , the US videoconferencing systems specialists , PictureTel , who claim to hold 80 per cent of the US videoconferencing equipment market , has a codec called the C3000 which enables video transmission rates of data of 128 kilobits per second ( kbs ) while maintaining adequate picture quality . |
| 28 | On the basis of standardized poverty figures ( a percentage of national earnings based on the average of national official poverty standards ) , in the early 1970s 3 per cent of the German population lived in poverty , 7½ per cent of the British , 13 per cent of the US , and 16 per cent of the French . |
| 29 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |
| 30 | In early January 1990 the crown was devalued by 19 per cent against the US dollar and other convertible currencies , and revalued upwards by 10 per cent against the rouble and other East European currencies . |