Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the decade 1970–80 , serious crimes recorded by the police increased for nearly every category : violence against the person rose by 136 per cent , burglary by 44 per cent , robbery by 138 per cent , theft and handling by 54 per cent and fraud and forgery by 18 per cent . |
| 2 | British and German inflation rates have moved together , but the German economy is growing at a rate of 3.5 per cent. , while the British economy is in recession and shrinking by 2.5 per cent . |
| 3 | Not merely was the transformation great in itself but , of course , on the largest commuter network under single ownership in the world — equating to the complete Dutch or Belgian railways , carrying two million passengers daily and accounting for 41 per cent of all commuters into central London . |
| 4 | In 1986 38 per cent of the 103,000 conceptions outside marriage to teenagers ( under age 20 ) were aborted , declining to 32 per cent of the 25,000 such conceptions to women aged 30–4 and rising to 56 per cent of the 2,000 conceptions to unmarried women aged 40 and over . |
| 5 | The biggest political hot potato is the decision to put VAT on domestic fuel bills — 8 per cent in April 1994 and rising to 17.5 per cent in 1995 . |
| 6 | Manufacturing output grew by 8 per cent , below the 10 per cent average of the previous five years , and mining by 9 per cent . |
| 7 | The US currency fluctuated during much of 1990 , depreciating by 8.5 per cent against the deutschmark by March ( compared with its level a year earlier ) , and appreciating by 17.5 per cent vis-a-vis the yen during the same period , and 5.5 against the pound sterling . |