Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [adv] [num] per [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ostensibly agriculture has a fine record — between 1961 and 1973 labour productivity bounded along at over 7 per cent per annum , though overall growth of output at just under 3 per cent was less impressive [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 2 | On past experience , a 15 per cent devaluation could be expected to feed through at roughly 3 per cent a year for five years , and if this is repeated , it is still far too soon to say that inflationary expectations have been beaten out of the economy . |
| 3 | We start off at about 85 per cent maximum speed . |
| 4 | The budget assumed that GDP would grow by between 0 and 3 per cent in 1993 , the first increase since 1989 ; that unemployment , which reached 11.9 per cent of the labour force in November , would remain high ; and that inflation , which had fallen from 38.6 per cent to 20.1 per cent from mid-year 1991 to 1992 , would level off at around 21 per cent . |
| 5 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 6 | Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads . |
| 7 | He is drinking slowly , because it will be a long night , and rough cider usually comes out at about eight per cent alcohol , though nobody is measuring . |
| 8 | The value of the discounts works out at about 8 per cent of the sum invested . |
| 9 | But if , say , they use £ 10-worth of it right away , £10-worth three weeks later , and save the final £10-worth until they 've paid off the check ‘ so that I do n't owe anyone ’ , the true rate of interest works out at about 400 per cent . |
| 10 | In 1981 , the corporation argued to a House of Lords Select Committee that the tenure mix within the LDDC would work out at about 50 per cent owner-occupied , 25 per cent shared-equity tenure and 25 per cent housing association . |
| 11 | This rise is dramatic , as is illustrated in figure 6.6 , which shows a steep rise in this age-group in the first half of the twentieth century and a levelling out at about 15 per cent from the 1980s well into the next century . |