Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The caramel and crisped wheat milk chocolate bar , looks , costs and tastes like a regular bar , but carbohydrate constitutes about 60 per cent , with fat down to around 30 per cent . |
| 2 | The Safeway supermarket says that , thanks to the economics of increased demand , the price premium charged on organic meat is now down to around 10-15 per cent , compared with 30 per cent 18 months ago . |
| 3 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 4 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 5 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 6 | We slow down to about 14 per cent at this stage . |
| 7 | The plan estimates the costs of implementation in some detail — about 3 per cent of national income up to 1994 , settling down to about 2 per cent by 2010 . |
| 8 | But today , says Carl Schlettwein of the Ministry of Fisheries , ‘ pilchard stocks are down to about 15 per cent of their full potential and hake to about 20 per cent . ’ |
| 9 | With the discount moving down to about 20 per cent by mid-1990 , others may be similarly tempted even though the discount rate reflects some measure of the depreciated economic value of the assets . |
| 10 | Before World War II , Brazil introduced high rates of effective protection for local manufacturers against imports ( up to nearly 70 per cent during the 1960s ) and thus created a strong and enduring anti-export bias ( Balassa , 1985 : p. 27 ) . |
| 11 | On a six-month contract at 30 per cent , the seven per cent increase in the size of the individual instalments would push the APR up to nearly 65 per cent , for example : easily enough to look excessively expensive in comparison with the competition . |
| 12 | The party 's share of the vote crawled up to barely 35 per cent , thanks largely to Lib Dem deserters . |
| 13 | As with rates , the rebates will be available for up to only 80 per cent of the community charge . |
| 14 | If pay settlements in the private sector continue to decelerate to 2 per cent and the underlying rate of inflation edges up to around 3.75 per cent by the end of this year when the effects of cheaper mortgages start working their way out of consumer budgets , there is little doubt that many individuals will find their real disposable incomes squeezed . |
| 15 | The two figures should add up to around 75 per cent . |
| 16 | Although it is of course difficult to generalise , and some credit unions pay higher rates on savings than others , this difference in the return on savings might be up to around four per cent or so . |
| 17 | In the first seven years of the study , resistant strains increased slowly , then peaked and fell back to about 25 per cent . |
| 18 | If all goes according to plan he will hold the public sector borrowing requirement to £35 billion in the current year , rising to £50 billion in 1993-94 , but the proportion of gross domestic product should stabilise at no more than 8 per cent , and fall slowly back to around 4 per cent by 1997 — still an alarmingly large figure in the eyes of some City analysts . |
| 19 | Since then , however , their predicted share has slipped back to around 13-15 per cent . |