Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bates has built up a 29.65 per cent stake in Cabra through a Virgin Islands-based company , Vanbrugh , but a full-scale bid looks unlikely . |
| 2 | A newspaper report that the multi-millionaire Barclay brothers had built up a 3 per cent stake in Williams and were thinking of a full bid at 300p a share sent the price soaring 58p to 283p . |
| 3 | Burmah , where Dutch industrial group SHV has built up a 9 per cent stake , refused to comment on rumours in New York that it was preparing a bid for American-based Quaker State Corporation which makes motor oils . |
| 4 | British Aerospace has confirmed that it has built up a 1.7 per cent stake in the company . |
| 5 | During 13 years ' rule by the party of law and order the police have had only a five per cent increase in manpower . |
| 6 | The government has laid down a 20 per cent limit to stakes . |
| 7 | The relatively stable performance of the US dollar meant , on the other hand , that any investor operating in dollars would have realized only a 3.0 per cent loss on a US share portfolio , and a gain of 8.1 per cent in the UK market or of 79.3 per cent in Mexico . |
| 8 | But Labour — while winning a net 39 seats — achieved only a 2.1 per cent swing , well short of the eight per cent needed to achieve outright victory . |