Example sentences of "per [unc] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked about the 19.5 per cent stake held by a rival brewer , he said he thought Boddington should sell it . |
| 2 | The ellipsis represent 90 per cent coincidence limits for the samples from named quarries . |
| 3 | The ten per cent addition assumed by the Eighth Schedule was , as in the 1947 Act , measured by the external cube , but it has since been modified to the smaller of cube or internal floor space , and only relates now to buildings in existence on 1 July 1948 . |
| 4 | This would have benefited some of the smaller parties in East Germany , such as the PDS and the German Social Union ( DSU — the small East German equivalent of the Bavarian Christian Social Union — CSU ) , since they would not have had to surmount the 5 per cent hurdle required under the West German system to gain representation . |
| 5 | An alternative method of compelling minority shareholders to sell their shares in similar circumstances is to use a Court Scheme ( see para 2.4 above ) if that is appropriate ( where the 75 per cent threshold may be easier to achieve than the 90 per cent threshold required for a compulsory sale ) . |
| 6 | As with national expenditure these increases represent a 15 per cent rise compared with the budget for 1992/3 . |
| 7 | The 20 to 30 per cent discounts offered by the superstores account for only around half of the US/UK price differential . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century the Gunton Park was essentially a dairy herd and here the emphasis on a good milk yield at 4 per cent butterfat continued into the 1930s and 1940s , when the rest of the breeders were changing from dairy to dual-purpose types . |
| 9 | The surge of inquiries for new cars after the five per cent tax cut in the Budget was subdued by election uncertainty ; it should now become a flow of firm orders . |
| 10 | An extension of VAT to cover newspapers , books , transport and some food — at a lower 5 per cent rate compared to the standard 17 per cent — has been widely mooted . |
| 11 | There are three different rates of income tax : the new 20 per cent rate introduced in the 1992 Budget which applies to the first £2,000 of your taxable income ; the 25 per cent basic rate tax which applies to the next slice of taxable income between £2,000 and £23,700 ; and the 40 per cent higher rate tax which is levied on all taxable income over £23,700 . |
| 12 | Supporters of official forecasts say the 1982–86 recovery saw an average annual growth rate of 3 per cent — not far removed from the 3.1 per cent average implied by the Treasury over the five years to 1996–97 . |
| 13 | The return on assets works out at 1.8 per cent compared with a 3.75 per cent target set by the Government . |
| 14 | In New York the Dow Jones index of stockmarket prices fell 508 points to 1,738.41 on Friday 16 October 1987 , a decline of 22.6% — almost double the 13% per cent drop seen on the worst day of the 1929 stockmarket crash . |
| 15 | The 2 per cent incentive comes to an end on 5 April and in the new tax year the national insurance rebate will drop from 5.8 to 4.8 per cent or , grossed up with tax relief , from about 6.5 to about 5.4 per cent . |
| 16 | In the UK the Stock Exchange and Roe Valley Branches win trophies , while the overseas per capita trophies go to the Luxembourg and the St Germain and District Branches . |
| 17 | If the average per capita of land held in such does not exceed two hundred percent of the average per capita land held in the locality it shall remain untouched . |