Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | CORPORATE bankruptcies in Japan rose only 2.7 per cent in January and their resulting debt fell more than 40 per cent from a year ago , but analysts said that it was too soon to say the worst was over . |
| 2 | Kinnock scored only 61 per cent in the pre-campaign week — the same as his average score across all image aspects . |
| 3 | She slammed internal bickering and said the Greens , who polled just 0.5 per cent in April 's general election , have become a ‘ liability ’ for the environmental cause . |
| 4 | Many of the CDU votes went instead to the ultra right-wing Republicans who polled over seven per cent in the bigger cities with problems of unemployment , the housing shortage and a high percentage of foreign immigrants . |
| 5 | A new Constitution , designed to usher in multiparty politics , was adopted after a " yes " vote recorded as 98.36 per cent in a referendum on Nov. 16 ; the new Constitution stipulated that the head of state " shall not be impeached , or called as a witness before , during and after his term of office " . |
| 6 | Our death rate went down seventy-five per cent in one week ! |
| 7 | This increased to 22.1 per cent in 1974 and subsequently never fell below 10 per cent in that decade . |
| 8 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |
| 9 | Even in the clothing district , wage earners reached almost 53 per cent in the villages of Cosford hundred , but since they fell short of a third in the rising manufacturing town of Hadleigh , it seems that vigorous industrial growth pushed up the level of earnings . |
| 10 | The cost of living , which fell almost 1 per cent in January , rose by 0.7 per cent in February and the annual rate of inflation edged up from 1.7 per cent in January to 1.8 per cent in the year to February . |
| 11 | Trading profits edged up 3 per cent in both distilling and brewing , but the contribution from LVMH fell 18 per cent to £101 million , and interest costs rose by 26 per cent to £204 million . |
| 12 | On the export side the volume of cars shot up 27 per cent in the three months to November , compared with the previous three months though other consumer , intermediate and capital goods showed much more modest increases of 5.5 per cent , 4 per cent and 9 per cent , respectively . |