Example sentences of "per cent [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In regional elections on March 22 the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) of President François Mitterrand polled only 18.3 per cent of the vote in metropolitan France , compared with 29.88 per cent at the last regional elections in 1986 . |
| 2 | These authors indicate that the incomes of the 65 — 74 age group in Britain are 76 per cent of the population average compared with 94 per cent for the other six European and North American countries included within their study . |
| 3 | The Liberal Democrats won 50.8 per cent ( 29.7 per cent for the Liberal/Social Democratic Party Alliance in 1987 ) , and the Labour vote fell from 8.8 to 5 per cent . |
| 4 | Breakage of the major postcrania , for instance , was found to vary between 28–38 per cent for the great horned owl , 0–11 per cent for the barn owl , and 53–83 per cent for the screech owl . |
| 5 | In municipal elections held on June 28 , the first since the ending in March 1990 of 17 years of military rule , the ruling Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ) won 53.3 per cent of the vote , against 29.8 per cent for the combined right-wing opposition of the National Renewal ( RN ) and the Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | IF YOUR New Year resolution is to become a home owner , the Yorkshire Building Society is offering first-time buyers mortgages at two per cent below its standard interest rate of 14.75 per cent for the first six months of the loan . |
| 8 | A planned budget for 1991 estimated at $80,000 million contained provision for a 15.7 per cent rise for the social sector and one of 41.2 per cent for the controversial National Solidarity ( Pronasol ) anti-poverty programme [ see below ] which had a budget of $1,000 million in 1990 . |
| 9 | In July 1978 , he announced bluntly that the government would commit the unions to a pay-increase norm of just 5 per cent for the next twelve months . |
| 10 | For example , suppose we have a company from which we expect a dividend growth of 25 per cent for the next 5 years . |
| 11 | It came on a day of positive signs for the British economy , with the Bank of England saying it thought inflation would remain below the Government 's target of 4 per cent for the next two years , and cautious indications of a pick-up in high street spending . |
| 12 | Peter Wright , who missed Boroughmuir 's friendly against Hawick as he was resting a knock to his left shoulder which he had aggravated when he tripped at work , completed most of the session and is confident he will be 100 per cent for the heavy scrummaging routines on Wednesday night . |
| 13 | It won some 70 per cent of the vote , compared with 20 per cent for the Liberal Party ( which had previously held the seat ) and only 5 per cent for the ruling Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) . |
| 14 | The overall result suggests that the total tax burden faced by the UK population ranges from about 39 per cent of income for the very poorest down to 34 per cent for the richest fifth . |
| 15 | As late as 1975 , the proportion of young people in grammar schools between the ages of 16 and 19 was 14 per cent for the professional group and only 1 per cent for the unskilled manual group . |
| 16 | The 1991 budget ( adopted by the Assembly on Dec. 12 , 1990 ) envisaged a growth rate of 3.5 per cent ( against an average of 4.3 per cent for the previous five years ) , inflation at 11 per cent , and a budget deficit of 673,700 million escudos . |
| 17 | In Budapest the SzDSz won 34.7 per cent of the vote and FIDESz 18.2 per cent , compared with the HDF 's 27.3 per cent and 5 per cent for the HDF-allied Christian Democratic People 's Party . |
| 18 | that 's about five per cent on the current six million pound allocation , which alone is based on free school meals , should make a future upon the special needs audit . |
| 19 | Laurentian Financial Group has reduced the variable rate on its 100 per cent mortgage to 7.99 per cent on the first 75 per cent of the loan and 13.99 per cent on the final 25 per cent . |
| 20 | The price in column 4 is simply 20 per cent on the corresponding average cost from year 2 onwards . |
| 21 | The volume of exports in the four months to November was up 4 per cent on the previous four months , while imports rose 1 per cent . |
| 22 | The proportion of dependent children living in one parent families has increased by more than 50 per cent since the early 1970s . |
| 23 | In a letter of intent to the IMF , details of which were released on May 29 , the government had pledged further to reduce inflation to 2 per cent per month for the second part of the year and to achieve the reduction of the fiscal deficit to 1 per cent over the following nine months by further adjustments to public utility prices and controls on public sector wages . |
| 24 | 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 ] . |
| 25 | He estimated that inflation had risen by 25 per cent over the first eleven months of 1989 and that the dinar had lost 50 per cent of its value since October 1989 . |
| 26 | UK beer sales have fallen some 7 per cent over the first three months of this year , due to a combination of poor weather and recession . |
| 27 | The government estimated that nearly one in three businesses would pay rate increases of more than 50 per cent over the first few years , with some paying more than double their previous bill . |
| 28 | The 247,400 million peso budget involved increasing spending by 17.9 per cent over the adjusted 1990 budget of 209,800 million pesos . |
| 29 | The Offer represents a capital uplift for Palatine shareholders of 55 per cent over the closing middle market price of a Palatine ordinary share of 193p on 8 May 1985 , the dealing day before AW commenced buying Palatine shares on the market , and an uplift of 17 per cent based on the closing middle market price of a Palatine ordinary share of 256p on 4 July 1985 , the dealing day before the announcement of the Offer . |
| 30 | The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has constantly warned governments that the business of reducing carbon dioxide emissions ( by 60 per cent over the next two or three decades ) can not be put off any longer . |