Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] 10 per [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from Browne 's announcement that BP was increasing its North Sea investment by almost 10 per cent over the next three years , Shell outlined a scheme to spend £100 million refurbishing the Dunlin platform which will extend its economic life well into the next century . |
| 2 | In the two years before its death , advertising volume dropped by a quarter and circulation by about 10 per cent ( Clark , 1981 , p. 12 ) . |
| 3 | The new company , which will be called Chiron , will have 1500 employees , although a reduction of about 10 per cent of the workforce is expected early in 1992 . |
| 4 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 5 | Experiments to test QCD give results with an error of about 10 per cent . |
| 6 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 7 | In particular , the massive increase in car ownership from about 10 per cent in the early 1950s , to about 58 per cent of all urban households and around 70 per cent of rural households in 1982 ( Phillips and Williams , 1984 ) has let more and more rural people travel to a greater range of destinations at their own time and convenience . |
| 8 | Per kWh in winter as against ½d. in summer , which might cut peak consumption by around 10 per cent . |
| 9 | But the family sizes of women married in 1945 and in 1954 after 10 years ' marriage were 1.79 and 1.96 children respectively — a difference of only 10 per cent . |
| 10 | Many are bronze mirrors with a normal tin content of approximately 10 per cent , which have been tinned to produce a silvery reflecting surface . |
| 11 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 12 | In both cases , the difference between shortest and longest repayment period involved a change from about 10 per cent to 50 per cent APR . |
| 13 | The UNP — led by Chung Ju Yung , the founder of the Hyundai group , the country 's second-largest industrial conglomerate — secured 31 seats ( 24 in direct voting and seven in the national constituency ) after a vigorous , centrist , pro-business campaign , which attacked the economic record of the Roh government , and in particular its inability to reduce inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of approximately 10 per cent . |
| 14 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 15 | According to John Charcol , the mortgage broker , one or two schemes are still available , offering mortgages at a fixed rate of under 10 per cent . |
| 16 | It 's a far cry from the plight of the 1988 borrower , who took out a loan at a rate of under 10 per cent . |
| 17 | It succeeded at a stroke in reducing tenanted land from over 45 per cent of the cultivated area to under 10 per cent . |
| 18 | In this case , if the artist receives a 12 per cent royalty , and the producer requires a 2 per cent royalty on record sales , the artist is left with a royalty of only 10 per cent split between the members of the band . |
| 19 | John Perry , chief executive of Unisys UK , added that the British subsidiary made a profit of around 10 per cent , in spite of the adverse economic climate . |
| 20 | The prototype reproduces readings with an accuracy of about 10 per cent — on par with most petrol gauges . |
| 21 | What had changed was the distribution of employment so that although Japanese farms are very tiny , the threefold decline in agricultural employment to about 10 per cent of the labour force means that non-agricultural sectors now provide the bulk of small-firm employment . |
| 22 | As compared with regional showings in the GDR general election on March 13 , 1990 [ see pp. 37300-03 ] , the CDU share of the vote overall went up , due to an increase of over 10 per cent in support in Saxony ( where support for the DSU , however , dropped by a corresponding amount ) . |
| 23 | Drink sales averaged £180,000 per unit , showing an increase of approximately 10 per cent over the period . |
| 24 | The aspirin and paracetamol market was worth £148 million — a healthy increase of almost 10 per cent on 1990 , said the market research group Datamonitor . |
| 25 | Based on figures calculated for the united Yemen throughout 1990 , the budget forecast a deficit reduction of some 27 per cent during 1991 , with a 43 per cent increase in revenue and an increase in expenditure of only 10 per cent . |
| 26 | It planned a 6 per cent increase in expenditure on public works ( in accordance with the SII deal ) , but suggested that local authorities would be encouraged to increase public works expenditure by around 10 per cent . |