Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [adv] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With inflation expected to run at about 5 per cent , these boosts represent real gains . |
| 2 | At a meeting held in Tunis , the states undertook to devote at least five per cent of their territory to nature conservation . |
| 3 | The trial was halted after one year instead of the planned three after 20 per cent of patients taking only zidovudine died compared with only 10 per cent of those taking a ‘ cocktail ’ of zidovudine and acyclovir . |
| 4 | Complete results of the July 29 elections were not available as of mid-August , but according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Aug. 16 the MPRP had received at least 60 per cent of the votes and had won over 340 of the 430 seats in the People 's Great Hural . |
| 5 | Thus , while those favourably disposed towards the United States government had fallen to around 52 per cent by October 1956 ( just before the start of the Suez conflict ) 64 per cent continued to think well of the " American people " . |
| 6 | He said that the economy was now stabilizing ; inflation had fallen to around 5 per cent , and unemployment had gone no higher than 2 per cent . |
| 7 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 8 | Extraction levels had fallen to about 86 per cent of 1991 quantities according to government calculations . |
| 9 | From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline . |
| 10 | By early 1981 our support had fallen to below 30 per cent and as the months went by it plummeted even further to reach 23 per cent at the end of the year . |
| 11 | By 1986 , the proportion of GDP had fallen to under 15 per cent , employment to 1.2 million ( less than 5 per cent of the total ) , and GDFCF to 9 per cent . |
| 12 | In the annual report presented to the conference of the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) held in Montreal , Canada , on April 1-4 , 1990 , the 1980s were described as a " lost decade " for Latin American countries whose per capita gross domestic product ( GDP ) had fallen by approximately 8 per cent to its 1978 level . |
| 13 | From January 1991 trade between the two countries had to be paid in fully convertible currency so that by April the value of exports to the Soviet Union had fallen by almost 60 per cent compared with a year previously . |
| 14 | Reporting between 1976 and 1979 it showed how the share of the before-tax distribution of wealth of the top ten per cent had fallen from nearly 30 per cent in 1959 to 26.6 per cent in 1974–5 . |
| 15 | Growth in GNP was expected to slow to 2.2 per cent in 1991 and , although inflation might continue to decline , unemployment ( which had fallen from over 17 per cent in 1985-87 to 14 per cent in 1990 ) was expected to remain above the European average . |
| 16 | By 1988 this had dropped to about 15 per cent of spruce , and other species such as pine and fir showed similar improvements . |
| 17 | Provisional results from the general election on April 29 indicated that Sir Dawda Jawara , leader of the Progressive People 's Party ( PPP ) , had secured at least 60 per cent of votes cast in the presidential poll ; in the elections to the 36-member House of Representatives , with the results from eight seats still to be counted , the PPP had won 20 seats , the National Convention Party five , the Gambia People 's Party one , and independent candidates two . |
| 18 | White Hart Lane School in London used this approach when attendance had slumped to just 72 per cent . |
| 19 | By previous standards they register a marked improvement and to this extent justify post-war hopes : in the interwar period GDP had grown at approximately 2 per cent p.a . |
| 20 | By 1989 , the transaction systems had grown to about fifty per cent of the total . |
| 21 | The economy had grown by only 0.6 per cent over the four years to the end of 1990 , and actually shrank by 0.3 per cent during 1990 itself . |
| 22 | Using the data in the table , an argument is advanced that , whereas 21 per cent of working families had a short-term replacement rate of up to 60 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , by 1985 — 6 this had risen to about 44 per cent of families . |
| 23 | Despite the successive sterling crises , deflationary fiscal packages and wage restraint , real personal disposable income per head had risen by around 12 per cent from 1964 to 1970 . |
| 24 | Miti also claimed that in the past five years Japan 's imports from its 10 largest trading partners had increased by 96 per cent , while exports had risen by only 45 per cent . |
| 25 | US officials said that imports from China had increased by 42 per cent in the first six months while US exports to China had risen by only 18.4 per cent , and the US trade deficit with China was expected to rise to US$15 billion . |
| 26 | Details of a report by the Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche ( WIIW — the Vienna Institute for International Comparative Economics ) , published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of April 19 , 1990 , showed that industrial production in member states of COMECON had risen by only 1.2 per cent in 1989 — the lowest ever recorded . |
| 27 | There was no " hurdle " to surmount if representation were to be won ( in West Germany parties had to poll at least 5 per cent of the vote to enter parliament ) . |
| 28 | In Britain , it has been estimated that 73 % of the male population over 65 were occupied in 1881 , but by 1981 this had reduced to only 11 % ( Johnson , 1985 ) . |
| 29 | Although the peasantry continued to account for over 80 per cent of the population , discontent among the urban poor and especially the industrial working class was of scarcely less significance than the unrest in the countryside . |
| 30 | The peso had , he asserted , become more competitive , undergoing a gradual devaluation of 13 per cent over January-September 1989 while producer prices had increased by only 10.3 per cent . |