Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Airtours ' chairman , David Crossland , blamed his defeat on what he called ‘ the spoiling action ’ of the eleventh-hour intervention by Thomas Cook , the German-controlled travel agency , which on Monday snapped up 8.4 per cent of Owners to try to ensure it remained independent . |
| 2 | By 1988 , it had almost doubled again to 600 , and boats based on Iwate took over 90 per cent of the total reported Japanese dolphin and porpoise catch . |
| 3 | In Mordova on Dec. 22 the Democratic Russia candidate , Vasily Guslyannikov , defeated the incumbent , Nikolai Biryukov.In Yakutia , the incumbent , Mikhail Nikolayev took over 70 per cent of the vote on Dec. 22 . |
| 4 | Grocery prices in Britain went up 26 per cent between 1985 and 1990 — compared with five per cent in Germany and 16 per cent in France . |
| 5 | Summonses between July and September shot up 37 per cent to 2,928,259 . |
| 6 | HOPES of a Chinese takeaway made shares of Trafalgar House , which owns Cunard and the QE2 , jump 29p to 90p yesterday when Hongkong Land snapped up 15 per cent of the company . |