Example sentences of "per [no cls] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Richard Prebble , then Minister for State-owned Enterprises , the two companies would reduce their holding in Telecom to 24.95 per cent each over the next three years so as to keep in line with the government 's planned 49.9 per cent limit on foreign ownership of the company . |
| 2 | Ethnic minority groups account for 5 per cent of the population , Indians , Pakistani , Bangladeshi and West Indians accounting for just 1 per cent each of the population overall ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | On July 18 , employers and a majority of trade unions agreed to raise their contributions to Unedic , the unemployment benefit body , by 0.4 per cent each until the end of 1992 and to reduce payments made to those out of work for over four months . |
| 4 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
| 5 | Yukawa 's meson , the transmitter of the strong force , turned out to have a mass roughly 15 per cent that of the proton and some 270 times that of the electron . |
| 6 | The USSR employs about five times as many farm workers as the US and invests about five times as much as does US farming annually , yet Soviet output is only 80 per cent that of the U S A. Again like any bureaucratic system of production , risk-taking is never rewarded and hence there is no premium put on innovation . |
| 7 | The evidence for Leicestershire , which had been very fully studied , shows that between 1485 and 1550 , 2.1 per cent of the total enclosure was the responsibility of the Crown , 17.6 per cent that of the monasteries , 12.1 per cent that of the nobility and 67.5 per cent that of the gentry ( 58 , pp.105 , 190–1 ; 82 , p.71 ) . ’ |
| 8 | The evidence for Leicestershire , which had been very fully studied , shows that between 1485 and 1550 , 2.1 per cent of the total enclosure was the responsibility of the Crown , 17.6 per cent that of the monasteries , 12.1 per cent that of the nobility and 67.5 per cent that of the gentry ( 58 , pp.105 , 190–1 ; 82 , p.71 ) . ’ |
| 9 | The evidence for Leicestershire , which had been very fully studied , shows that between 1485 and 1550 , 2.1 per cent of the total enclosure was the responsibility of the Crown , 17.6 per cent that of the monasteries , 12.1 per cent that of the nobility and 67.5 per cent that of the gentry ( 58 , pp.105 , 190–1 ; 82 , p.71 ) . ’ |
| 10 | As of mid-January , there was 50 per cent more over the northern hemisphere than Antarctica — hitherto seen as the focus of ozone depletion . |
| 11 | In 1989 , 3 per cent more of the working population of the North were unemployed than in 1978 . |
| 12 | For example , in the election of February 1974 , the Liberals with over half of the votes of the Conservative and Labour Parties only secured 14 seats instead of the 122 to which they were proportionately " entitled " , and in the 1983 election the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured 26 per cent of the vote but only 23 seats whereas the Labour Party with only 2.2 per cent more of the vote won 209 seats . |
| 13 | If , as a result of this ballot , one candidate both ( i ) receives an overall majority of the votes of those entitled to vote and ( ii ) receives fifteen per cent more of the votes of those entitled to vote than any other candidate , he will be elected . |
| 14 | But the ballot was inconclusive because Heath had failed to secure the necessary 15 per cent lead-he had not received 15 per cent more of the votes cast than any other candidate . |
| 15 | Housing costs fell by 3 per cent , thanks to a further cut in average mortgage rates from 9.4 per cent to 8.5 per cent , and the cost of clothing and footwear eased by 4.6 per cent more in the January sales . |
| 16 | Fifty per cent less on the mortgage means erm about three and a half thousand . |
| 17 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |