Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [num] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millard ( 1988 ) estimates that on any day in 1981 the family doctor was caring for approximately 2 per cent of those aged 75 and over . |
| 2 | Although the economy was growing at around 2 per cent per annum , and although a fall in the value of the krone had brought the country 's trade balance back into surplus , its industries continued to suffer a severe crisis of confidence . |
| 3 | I think you have to look after people both at work and when they retire and we inflation-proofed our pension scheme during the whole of that pretty dreadful time when inflation was running at over twenty per cent . |
| 4 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 5 | By 1953 , Defence expenditure had almost doubled and was running at around 10 per cent of GDP . |
| 6 | While making primary products more competitive , the devaluation of the kina inevitably resulted in higher inflation which , by the end of 1990 , was running at around 7 per cent per annum . |
| 7 | According to the Middle East Times of Sept. 24-30 , the country 's annual inflation rate was running at around 700 per cent . |