Example sentences of "[prep] about [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We are now talking about a rate support grant of about 42 per cent . |
| 32 | According to recent reports , there is £8bn outstanding on credit cards in the UK , which works out at an average of between £350 and £400 on each card in issue with an interest rate of about 26 per cent a year . |
| 33 | Wood substance consists of about sixty per cent of cellulose , various other sugar compounds and lignin , a substance having affinities to a resin , which impregnates adult wood substance in some fairly intimate way . |
| 34 | Since 1981 , the electronics industry had increased output by an average rate of about 14 per cent a year in real terms . |
| 35 | These varied from what was essentially the retention of the existing system with a few modifications , to an option referred to as a Commerce Railway consisting of about 16 per cent of the existing network ( meaning that to travel from Manchester to Leeds one would need to go via London ) . |
| 36 | A comparison of the figures in the table with similar figures for the same areas between 1955 and 1964 shows an overall decline of about 35–45 per cent . |
| 37 | The French manufacturers had to wait until 1892 for the Méline tariff , which meant an average duty of about 34 per cent on British goods . |
| 38 | This may help to explain why the country has a national debt of about 120 per cent of GNP , one of the highest in the world , compared to a modest 35 per cent in Britain . |
| 39 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 40 | A further huge reduction of about 80 per cent in the labour force had taken place since the introduction of khozraschet at the start of NEP . |
| 41 | The move has been interpreted as making Caird less likely to bid for Leigh Interests , a rival waste disposal group in which Caird has a stake of about 5 per cent . |
| 42 | To the list of writers who developed psychoses Karlsson adds , among others , Hugo , Scott , Tolstoi , Pope , and Poe and puts the overall incidence of such disorders among the individuals he surveyed at around 30 per cent ; a staggeringly high figure , given that , taken together , non-organic forms of psychosis are usually quoted as carrying a lifetime risk of about 5 per cent . |
| 43 | The report said that continuing economic reform , despite its short-term costs , might allow annual growth of about 5 per cent by the end of the 1990s . |
| 44 | The government 's economic programme for 1991 was designed to achieve real economic growth of about 5 per cent , to hold inflation down to 14 per cent and to limit the deterioration in the current-account balance . |
| 45 | Defence spending would rise by 7 per cent to Rs175,000 million , implying a cut in real terms , for the second year running , of about 5 per cent [ see p. 38337 ] . |
| 46 | Although this analysis is not strictly accurate — there is always a compression/decompression overhead of about 5 per cent — the benefits and potential cost savings are substantial and compression techniques have been a major field of development from the time of the very earliest digital databases . |
| 47 | Indeed , they were sufficient to allow an increase in the labour force of about 5 per cent at constant wages . |
| 48 | The Californian population of sea lions is increasing at the rate of about 5 per cent a year . |
| 49 | Following the first oil shock , inflation rose from a figure of about 5 per cent in both countries in the early 1970s to an annual average of 16 per cent in Britain and 19 per cent in Spain in the period 1973–8 . |
| 50 | For example , if the bid-price were £95 for a Bill with a face value of £100 , the government would be paying a 3-monthly interest rate of about 5 per cent ; if the bid-price rose to £98 , the 3-monthly interest rate would fall to about 2 per cent . |
| 51 | In the whirligig beetle Gyrinus natator the elaborately adapted swimming legs have a remarkably high mechanical efficiency of about 84 per cent ( Nachtigall , 1962 ) . |
| 52 | In historical periods a loss factor of about 2 per cent per annum is known to have occurred ; compounded over a period of as long as a century , this will clearly drastically reduce the amount of coinage of year a available to the hoarder at the later date . |
| 53 | They were not thought particularly interesting , until , in 1952 , Herring and Galt chanced to bend some tin whiskers and noticed that they could be bent to a strain of about 2 per cent and still recover elastically . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Mr Bekesi said that unless the government moved swiftly on economic reform , the outcome would be a flourishing black market , widespread shortages , inflation much higher than its current level of about 20 per cent , and high unemployment . |
| 56 | It means a government confident in its support from more than 40 per cent of the voters , rather than one nervously beholden to the conditional backing of about 20 per cent of them . |
| 57 | The old Company had paid lavish dividends of about 20 per cent at first , which had led to calls on the shareholders for more capital in the 1690s ; after 1709 the new company paid dividends starting at 8 per cent and declining as the years passed . |
| 58 | The National Farmers ' Union 's South East region environmental study group is arguing for a fertiliser cut of about 20 per cent , to be applied across Europe by means of individual farm quotas . |
| 59 | Production over 1992 fell by 9 per cent , compared with a slump of about 20 per cent in Russia . |
| 60 | Northleach has an unemployment rate of about three per cent . |