Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities were to decide how the legislation might be applied in communities where at least 15 per cent of the inhabitants spoke one of the " minority languages " . |
| 2 | RENTS for council housing in 66 local authority areas will rise by £4.50 a week or at least 20 per cent next April , according to figures released by the Department of Environment yesterday . |
| 3 | Had that led to a dramatic detection of crime , it would have been good , but I understand that the surveys then carried out suggest that in only 0.03 per cent . |
| 4 | She also cites evidence from school inspectors which says that in almost 40 per cent of primary schools parents were topping up the capitation allowance for books and equipment by more than 30 per cent . |
| 5 | Although at least 80 per cent of patients referred to the general hospital in Oxford after self-injury have cut themselves superficially , it seems likely that many more episodes of deliberate self-cutting occur than are identified through general hospital records . |
| 6 | He said he was confident that at least 85 per cent of LWT 's shareholders , and all the managers , would support it . |
| 7 | But by 1954 it was confidentially estimated by the Narok administration that at least 85 per cent of the Masai living on the Mau , Melili and the plains had taken the Mau Mau oath . |
| 8 | Compared with 10 years ago , when it was estimated that at least 70 per cent of two-parent households with two children came within the scheme , less than half of two-parent families now qualify , according to the author of the study , Michael Murphy , a statistician at the London School of Economics . |
| 9 | A report from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate , claiming that at least five per cent of pigs are contaminated with drug residues , has resulted in government moves to prosecute offending farmers . |
| 10 | Panic demanded fresh elections on the grounds of large-scale fraud ; international monitors from the CSCE confirmed that at least 5 per cent of voters had been prevented from voting . |
| 11 | Obviously the effect of opting out on educational provision will depend upon the number of schools electing to withdraw from local authority control , and Mrs Thatcher and Mr Baker seemed to disagree about what would be an appropriate number : Mrs Thatcher hoped that at least 50 per cent of schools will become grant-maintained , but Mr Baker talked of a trickle . |
| 12 | It had made its participation conditional on the undertaking that at least 60 per cent of the bank 's total lending should be to the private sector , with no more than 40 per cent for infrastructure projects . |
| 13 | It stipulated that at least 60 per cent of lending had to go to the private sector , and no more than 40 per cent to infrastructure projects . |
| 14 | But we know that at least 23 per cent of our sample never married , and carried on working till retirement . |
| 15 | Dr Edgar Lin , Taiwan 's leading environmentalist , estimates that at least 30 per cent of the annual rice crop is dangerously contaminated by heavy metals like mercury and cadmium . |
| 16 | Looked at the other way this means that at least 30 per cent of Englishmen in the mid seventeenth century were able to read and to sign their name . |
| 17 | The only requirement in this respect is that at least 25 per cent ( 10 per cent in respect of USM companies ) of the company 's shares should be in the hands of the public . |
| 18 | The 25 per cent rule Because it is a continuing requirement for a listing that at least 25 per cent of the company 's shares must be in the hands of the public , a listed company must ensure that this percentage will continue in public hands following each market purchase . |
| 19 | And since this means that at least 20 per cent of the captive-bred animals ( with no experience of the wild ) have been shown to be able to hunt for themselves , find shelter from the freezing conditions and evade predators for more than a month , Bob Oakleaf of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department considers the release a success . |
| 20 | Finally , the programme approach was to be extended over the whole Fund , with National Programmes of Community Interest , Community Programmes and Integrated Development Programmes , so that at least 20 per cent of the budget would be directed towards programme expenditure . |
| 21 | Alexander Burovoi , head of the permanent team researching the accident , and Alexander Sich of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , estimate that at least 35 per cent of the radiocaesium and 50 per cent of the iodine in the reactor core was released : twice or three times the estimates released by the Soviet authorities in 1986 . |
| 22 | In the Fränkischer Kurier , for example , a newspaper with extensive circulation in and around Nuremberg and Fürth in Franconia , the Führer was mentioned in 41 per cent of the death-announcements for ‘ the fallen ’ between May and August 1940 , in 25 per cent between July and December 1941 , and in only 12 per cent between July and December 1942 . |
| 23 | The two most conspicuous features are the large holdings of UK securities , amounting to over 40 per cent of total assets and to about 60 per cent when combined with overseas securities . |
| 24 | Inflation , which had officially fallen to 9.4 per cent in September 1989 and to around 7 per cent in October , rose sharply in November , while the austral lost one-tenth of its value on the black market , dropping to $1.00=1,000 australs in the course of a few hours on Nov. 20 against a background of uncertainty over economic policies , tension within the government and divisions in the labour movement . |
| 25 | of its shares owned by qualified persons or companies and at least 75 per cent . |
| 26 | of its shares must be owned by one or more qualified persons or companies and at least 75 per cent . |
| 27 | of its shares being owned by one or more qualified persons or companies and at least 75 per cent . |
| 28 | Claiming to speak for the eighty per cent of Kindertransporte refugees who were clearly Jewish ( though of these only twenty per cent were orthodox and at least fourteen per cent were non-practising ) , Schonfeld argued a policy of Jewish homes for Jewish children and , if this failed , for the RCM to devote its energies to raising money for hostels where religious supervision ( of a strictly orthodox nature ) could be guaranteed . |
| 29 | This means it has been grown slowly to full maturity , fattened on food containing no animal protein and at least 70 per cent cereal , and reared without the use of any antibiotics or growth-promoting additives . |
| 30 | Now , 15 per cent of the village regularly uses the telecottage and at least 20 per cent has taken courses there . ’ |