Example sentences of "[unc] cent to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fed 's injection of funds triggered a fall in rates from 8 ¾ per cent to just over 8 ½ per cent . |
| 2 | European sales jumped by 18 per cent to just over £3billion for the quarter , and on a similar rise the enlarged US activities passed £1billion , the global total moving above £5 billion . |
| 3 | WHITBREAD Investment Company , the offshoot of the eponymous brewing empire , increased its income 9 per cent to just over £7million in the six months to the end of September . |
| 4 | Although it has picked up since , between 1984–85 and 1987–88 this slumped from 17 per cent to just 14.25 per cent . |
| 5 | Faced with medical evidence that the number of Frenchmen with below-average sperm counts had increased from twenty-nine per cent to just over seventy per cent , a specialist laid the blame on depression , anxiety , overwork , the use of tranquillizers and insomnia . |
| 6 | In retailing , for example , the state 's share fell from over 90 per cent to just over 50 . |
| 7 | The pig herd increased by more than three per cent to 509,000 and the poultry flock rose eight per cent to just under 15 million . |
| 8 | WITH net income rising by 28 per cent to just above £3 billion , 1992 was far from being the feared annus horribilis for the Royal Dutch/Shell group , writes Frank Frazer |
| 9 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 10 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 11 | The acquisitions — and the cost of converting scores of Greenall pubs into Premier House outlets providing food and with budget accommodation — pushed up the company 's interest charge by 40 per cent to nearly £20million in the year . |
| 12 | If one makes the more realistic assumption that the GDP growth rate would fall from 3 per cent to nearly zero over this decade then the figure of 4.5 million unemployed comes out of the Cambridge computer . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the Report estimated that the proportion of dependents who were elderly would increase over that period from 12 per cent to nearly a third by 1979 . |
| 14 | Bottle strengths vary from 40 per cent to nearly 60 per cent — some distilleries leave the whiskey uncut ; others reduce it with water . |
| 15 | A measure of our commitment is that in the year to June , we increased our lending to small firms by 13.5 per cent to nearly £10bn . ’ |
| 16 | In contrast , the proportion of all widows aged 65 or more increased from 38 per cent to nearly 60 per cent , while their numbers rose from 386,000 in 1871 to 1,529,000 in 1951 , doubling between 1871 and 1921 , and almost doubling again during the following thirty years , reflecting increased longevity amongst women . |
| 17 | Expenditure on employment was to rise 8.8 per cent to nearly DM99,000 million and expenditure on transport was to rise 10.7 per cent to DM44,000 million . |
| 18 | Across the region fares on different services are going up anything from 3 per cent to nearly 9 per cent . |
| 19 | Chancellor Norman Lamont hopes that a further cut in interest rates from eight per cent to either seven or six per cent will boost confidence and in turn the economy this week . |
| 20 | The Crush purchase boosted Cadbury Schweppes ' soft drinks volumes by 30 per cent to over four billion litres a year , which places it third equal with Dr Pepper-Seven Up behind Coca-Cola 's 46.5 billion litres and Pepsi 's 21.5 billion litres . |
| 21 | As to the discounts , these appear to range in generosity from 5 per cent to over 60 per cent . |
| 22 | Between 1920 and 1930 the population of Japan jumped by 15 per cent to over 64 million ; industrial sector growth was inadequate to absorb the increase . |
| 23 | The difference in success rates was marked , no success rate for decimals exceeding 15 per cent , and those for whole numbers ranging from 50 per cent to over 80 per cent . |
| 24 | It then fell to 37,440 by the beginning of the following year , but in the first six months of 1989 it rose by 20 per cent to 45,1()0 and by a further 29 per cent to over 58,000 in the second half of the year . |
| 25 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 26 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 27 | Paragraph 12 pronounced the key requirement : the Government 's duty was , it said , to advocate a policy which would provide the best possible foundation for a further reduction in inflation , already reduced in the previous year from 17 per cent to around 8 per cent ; an increase in jobs and output ; and an improved standard of living . |
| 28 | At the same time he said that new rules would be drawn up on the ownership of property , in preparation for the privatization of numerous state enterprises ; in this context he demanded a cut in bank interest rates , from a typical level of 50 per cent to around 20 per cent , so as to encourage private investment in industry , where he said that productivity had fallen by 10 per cent since the start of the year . |
| 29 | The main targets were as follows : ( i ) to increase gross national product ( GNP ) at an average annual growth rate of about 6 per cent ; ( ii ) to increase the total output value of industry and agriculture at an average annual rate of 6.1 per cent ; ( iii ) to increase total agricultural output at an average annual rate of 3.5 per cent , with grain output reaching 500,000,000 tonnes and cotton 5,250,000 tonnes by 2000 ; ( iv ) to increase total industrial output at an average annual rate of 6.8 per cent , with the output of raw coal reaching 1,400 million tonnes , electricity 1,100 million kWh , steel 80,000,000 tonnes , chemical fertilizer 120,000,000 tonnes and rail freight 1,900 million tonnes ; ( v ) to ensure that 40 per cent of major products in the machine-building and light industry sector reached or approached relatively advanced international standards ; ( vi ) to raise the proportion of the tertiary sector in the GNP from the current 25 per cent to around 33 per cent ; and ( vii ) to control the average annual population growth rate at below 12.5 per thousand . |
| 30 | It was predicted that inflation would rise from its current level of 1.2 per cent to around 3 per cent . |