Example sentences of "at 10 per cent " in BNC.

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1 The market for stable power supplies for sensitive equipment is worth £1.2bn in Europe and is growing at 10 per cent per year .
2 Calvet was in spectacular form at Paris , calling for an immediate rethink on Japanese access to Europe and outlining a five-point plan : that no new transplants be established in Europe ; that those in existence have outputs capped ; that quotas be maintained between 1992 and 2002 and continued after that if the Japanese do n't play ball ; that overall European penetration levels should stay at 10 per cent from the East and that France could keep its three per cent quota ; and finally , that all Japanese cars , no matter where they 're built , should be included in calculations , and the EC should assist automotive industry investment .
3 Cash in the bank stands at about £1million , but the company has a £2.6million loan at 10 per cent .
4 He stopped payments to the Fund shortly after taking office in 1985 , as part of a unilateral policy to restrict payments on Peru 's $18billion foreign debt , which stands at 10 per cent of export earnings .
5 During a quake of magnitude 6.1 on 20 February 1990 , ground acceleration was measured at 10 per cent of gravity .
6 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 .
7 If this were paid for over 20 years at 10 per cent interest , the annual cost would be £1200 .
8 III was abolished they would still be able to grow at 10 per cent per cycle .
9 The budget deficit is running at 10 per cent of GDP , reflecting the Gorbachev administration 's inability to resist the demands of special interest groups .
10 He worked out a new management contract with a sliding scale rate of commission , starting at 10 per cent on £100 per week , up to 25 per cent over £499 per week .
11 In the subsidy goods of this value were taxed at 10 per cent for the first two years , the same rate as for land , the owners of which were mostly drawn from the wealthier strata , and double what was levied on smaller assessments .
12 With unemployment at 10 per cent it was hardly inspired .
13 In the 1967 Paper , investment appraisal was to follow the net present value method , with a test discount rate ( TDR ) set first at 8 per cent , later at 10 per cent .
14 In such circumstances a firm with surplus funds would have three investment opportunities : Project A , Project B or investing £50,000 on the capital market to earn compound interest at 10 per cent per annum .
15 Larner set the figure at 10 per cent , and in his later study , with the process of dispersal having become even more marked , Herman acknowledged that a holding of 5 per cent or more ‘ begins to approach non-negligibility from the standpoint of corporate power ’ .
16 When first set for 1987 entry , targets were put at 10 per cent of the home figure for most fields and a blanket 15 : 1 offer ratio was adopted .
17 The figures assume that the loan is to be repaid using equal annual instalments over 20 years and interest is charged at 10 per cent of the reducing balance .
18 A CD might be described thus , ‘ 50,000 three-month CD at 10 per cent ’ .
19 The maximum customs tariff on imports was set at 50 per cent and the minimum at 10 per cent .
20 If X had borrowed the money from the trust and paid interest on it at 10 per cent , then the position would have been as follows .
21 Informally , the bank admits that if sterling was still in the ERM , the underlying rate of inflation could be down almost to zero now , but base rates would still be at 10 per cent , and the prospects for the economic growth and unemployment scarcely bear thinking about .
22 The US money supply was allowed to grow at 10 per cent per year or more for the next four years , having been virtually unchanged in 1969 .
23 This is slightly less than would have been obtained on an ordinary fixed deposit for 90 days at 10 per cent .
24 This cost is calculated on a ‘ discount to yield ’ basis at 10 per cent .
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