Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts were worried by a big property write-down which cuts shareholders ' funds by £73.2 million and pushes gearing up to 113 per cent . |
| 2 | The leases that were granted in the heady days of 1989/90 when the brewery company landlords invited rental bids from tenants , saw them hungrily bidding up to 12 per cent to 15 per cent of the anticipated turnover . |
| 3 | There are significant differences in the terms and conditions of regular relative to temporary labour , not simply in terms of wages but involving housing and welfare expenses , which can mean regular labour costing up to 50 per cent more . |
| 4 | In consequence , the price of petrol and kerosene rose sharply , as did the prices of a wide range of basic commodities , with butane gas going up by 130 per cent and basic food items by between 90 and 100 per cent . |
| 5 | POLICE pay is going up by 6.5 per cent — well above the inflation rate — under a deal confirmed last night by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke . |
| 6 | Germany was next , going up by 43 per cent and her ally Austria-Hungary came in third place with an increase of 35 per cent . |
| 7 | The NFHA reported that in 1989 the rents of tenants in work had already reached 21 per cent of disposable income and single elderly people were paying up to 35 per cent of their incomes in rents . |
| 8 | The Indonesian market has also opened up to foreign investment allowing up to 49 per cent of any listed company or new issue to be bought by foreigners compared with only 11 companies being open to foreign investment previously . |
| 9 | Besides a national flue — gas desulphurisation ( FGD ) programme on power stations , West Germany introduced its own laws to require catalytic converters on cars ( devices containing a platinum-coated honeycomb which treat exhaust gases , transforming up to 90 per cent of the NOx , hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide ) . |
| 10 | Although this seemed a good idea at the time , current strategy at WH Smith is to have full control , as in the buying up of 100 per cent of Molinaire , the TV services company , in July . |
| 11 | China had been the largest single purchaser of US wheat for several years , buying up to 10 per cent of total US wheat production in some years . |
| 12 | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has declared its intention of buying up to 15 per cent and is thought to be quietly picking up stock . |
| 13 | SUPERMARKET giants have launched a New Year price war slashing up to 50 per cent off many groceries . |
| 14 | An article in Politika at the end of 1986 ( 10 December ) , when the rate of inflation was moving up towards 100 per cent , reported that loans from the Federal Fund were given at 10 per cent ( 9 per cent in Kosovo ) with a repayment period of twelve years . |
| 15 | Some of the programmes developed have succeeded in removing up to 98 per cent of the solids content of waste water . |
| 16 | Calcium sulphate ( gypsum ) is formed , removing up to 90 per cent of sulphur . |
| 17 | * The Confederation of British Industry estimates that one company in five is allocating up to 25 per cent of its total investment to waste management and improvement of environmental performance . |
| 18 | With headhunters charging up to 60 per cent of annual salary to fill a top job , many more companies are psychometrically testing senior executives . |
| 19 | Most of the new terminals commissioned during the 1980s were funded partly by the government by means of a ‘ Section 8 Grant ’ , giving up to 60 per cent of the total cost . |
| 20 | Instead , market share has been stolen from law-abiding retailers and the smaller shops , many of which have lost and are losing up to 50 per cent . |
| 21 | This approximately halves the amount of money available for discretionary spending , even though the White Paper accepts that only twenty-one English councils were spending up to 80 per cent of their S137 limit and two-thirds of S137 spending was an economic development . |
| 22 | It suggested that millions of US children were receiving up to 35 per cent of their entire lifetime dose of carcinogens by the age of five , and calls for cuts in pesticide use , including the phasing out of all those classed by the EPA as carcinogens . |
| 23 | Tables 6.9(a) and ( b ) shows the result of access frequency loading up to 20 per cent , 30 per cent , 40 per cent , 50 per cent , 60 per cent , 70 per cent , 80 per cent and 90 per cent packing , followed by additions of records of average activity until the file is 100 per cent loaded . |
| 24 | Until the Communists took power , Czechoslovakia was one of the most advanced industrial nations in Europe , supplying up to 70 per cent of the needs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire , all from an industrial base started in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 25 | Bookings of the ten-year package , fixed at 8.99 per cent for those borrowing up to 90 per cent , have been steady since its launch and have picked up since it featured in Money Mail recently . |
| 26 | However , present government statements are envisaging up to 80 per cent of households being owner-occupiers . |