Example sentences of "[num] per cent over the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average trend for the second-highest maximum one-hour ozone concentration recorded at 400 sites shows that ozone levels increased by 2 per cent over the 1979–88 period but decreased by 14 per cent over the 1980–9 period ( figure 8.8 ) . |
| 2 | We also have to assume an average interest rate of 12 per cent over the 25 years . |
| 3 | Its aim is to boost Scotland 's manufacturing exports to Spain which last year totalled £474 million , an increase of 10 per cent over the 1991 figure . |
| 4 | The reported cases of indecent or sexual assault increased by 21 per cent over the 1977–87 decade , while the number of men convicted rose by only 2 per cent , a decline in the conviction rate from 31 per cent to 26 per cent . |
| 5 | For an investor who has selected a 1995 maturity date , BFS says the net asset value would have to fall by 5 per cent over the six years for the investment trust to be unable to pay up . |
| 6 | Total budget revenue was set at 50,500,000 million rupiah , an increase of 18 per cent over the 1990-91 budget ( US$1.00=RPs1,897.44 as at Jan. 14 , 1991 ) . |
| 7 | Exports were projected to rise by 76 per cent over the five years , from $388,000,000 in 1987/88 to $681,000,000 in 1992/93 , with imports rising 22 per cent to $1,450 million over the same period . |
| 8 | In Tayside 's first interim report , he says : ‘ Crime has continued to rise in Tayside , and crimes of violence against the person , indecency , dishonesty , fire raising and drugs offences show an increase of 7,376 or 17.2 per cent over the 1990 figures . ’ |
| 9 | However , the numbers of the very elderly will increase substantially : there are likely to be 1.2 million people aged 85 and over in 2006 ( Population Projections 1985–2025 , 1987 , Appendix II ) , an increase of 75 per cent over the 1986 figure . |
| 10 | The main tax rates remained unchanged , while most tax allowances and excise duties were increased in line with inflation ( 7.7 per cent over the 12 months to December 1989 ) , although some duties went up by 10 per cent . |
| 11 | The percentage of all rape cases reported in our sample of newspapers increased from a steady 25 per cent over the two decades , 1951 to 1971 , to very nearly 40 per cent in 1978 . |
| 12 | Early voting projections , which left the CDU with 41 per cent of the vote in Baden Wurttemberg and a drop of between eight to nine per cent over the 1988 election , also stripped Chancellor Kohl 's CDU of its last overall majority in a west German state . |
| 13 | The People 's Assembly on Nov. 13 approved a budget for 1991 which provided for expenditure of £S84,690 million ( US$7,548 million ) , representing an increase of 37 per cent over the 1990 budget [ see p. 38069 ] . |
| 14 | The immediate industrial crisis had been resolved , but inflation , which had been substantially boosted by the rise in world oil prices , continued to accelerate , and the discrepancy between price rises of 8 per cent and wage rises of 16 per cent over the six months stored up an acute problem of squeezed profitability . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | raising the threshold for passing Stage I to 10 modules ( previously 8 credits with an average of 40 per cent over the 12 taken was an alternative route ) ; |
| 17 | The average trend for the second-highest maximum one-hour ozone concentration recorded at 400 sites shows that ozone levels increased by 2 per cent over the 1979–88 period but decreased by 14 per cent over the 1980–9 period ( figure 8.8 ) . |
| 18 | Finance Minister Barend J. du Plessis in his budget speech on March 14 , 1990 , announced expenditure of R72,900 million ( an increase of 9.7 per cent over the 1989/90 budget — see p. 36915 ) ; revenue was expected to reach just under R65,000 million , up by 7.3 per cent on the previous year , leaving a deficit before borrowing which amounted to 2.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 19 | Defence spending was raised to Rs157,500 million , representing an increase of 8.6 per cent over the 1989 revised estimates , in view of the situation on the Indo-Pakistan border in Kashmir [ see p. 37246 ] . |
| 20 | In percentage terms , the value of losses reported by companies exporting to Portugal rose by 2,620 per cent over the five years . |