Example sentences of "[no cls] and [prep] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | That compared with a continuing slight downward trend in the rest of the UK and , coupled with the year-on-year trend of minus one per cent and minus 1.6 per cent for the whole of the UK , suggested a resurgence North of the Border ahead of the rest . |
| 2 | By 1971 , however , the number of house standing committees chaired by southerners had fallen to 38 per cent and to 23 per cent by 1979 ; meanwhile the comparable figures in the Senate were 53 per cent in 1971 and 27 per cent in 1979 . |
| 3 | By 2000 , they aim to cut production of new packaging by 10 per cent and for 60 per cent of packaging to be re-usable . |
| 4 | These included : ( i ) extension of coverage to octopus , cuttlefish , primary cocoa products and essential oils ; ( ii ) lowering of dependency thresholds ( that is , the importance of an ACP country 's exports of a relevant product as a proportion of its total exports ) from 6 per cent to 5 per cent and from 1.5 per cent to 1 per cent in the case of the least developed countries ( LDCs ) ; ( iii ) abolition of the principle of repayment of interest-free loans granted under Stabex when export earnings permitted ( under Lome III only the LDCs had been exempted ) ; ( iv ) abolition of the Lome III mechanism for correcting exchange-rate fluctuations ( often called the " tunnel " ) in favour of a system of calculations based on the ECU . |
| 5 | The Centre Party and the Left Socialist Party , both of which campaigned in the local elections on a vigorously anti-EC platform , saw their support increase from 6.8 per cent to 12.1 per cent and from 5.8 per cent to 12.2 per cent respectively . |
| 6 | Between 1968 and 1976 mortality from ischaemic heart disease in women aged 85 + decreased by 21 per cent and by 17 per cent for males ( Verbrugge 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Between 1967 and 1980 the Consumer Price Index rose by 67 per cent , whereas during the same period campaign expenditures for House elections rose by 163 per cent and by 150 per cent for elections to the Senate . |