Example sentences of "at a [adj] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Intra-Europe business , for all the promise of the Single Market , will grow at a moderate 4.3 per cent , analysts say . |
| 3 | Church attendance , despite rallying from a low point in the mid-Eighties , stands at a paltry 2.4 per cent of the population — half a per cent behind the Catholics . |
| 4 | The OECD 's bi-annual economic report Outlook , released on Dec. 19 , set growth in industrialized nations in the second half of 1991 at a mere 1 per cent annual rate ; in July the OECD had forecast a 2.4 per cent annual growth for this period . |
| 5 | By August 1991 the European Commission was reported as forecasting growth for the year at a discouraging 1.5 per cent . |
| 6 | Growth was back at a remarkable six per cent in 1968 , inflation remained low and the budget was in healthy surplus by 1969 . |
| 7 | Assuming a constant rate of inflation of 5 per cent per annum , the real value of the relief would decline by a compounded figure of 39 per cent over 10 years and , if inflation were at a constant 10 per cent per annum , the corresponding decline would be 61 per cent . |
| 8 | Scrambling along the ground at 4 metres per second , a quail functions at a miserable 7 per cent fuel efficiency , Heglund found , while a man running at that speed achieves a 73 per cent ratio of fuel used in running to energy generated from food and oxygen . |
| 9 | In its 1990 annual report to foreign-aid donor countries , the World Bank castigated the government for a " particularly poor " budgetary performance and warned that without economic growth at a sustained 5 per cent , the prospects of alleviating the country 's severe poverty were dim . |
| 10 | In spite of this German industry expanded rapidly : between 1870 and 1913 the UK economy was growing at an annual rate of about 2.2 per cent ; the French economy at 2.6 per cent ; the US economy at 3.2 per cent ; and the German economy at a staggering 4.3 per cent . |