Example sentences of "per cent [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , in January 1986 the male unemployment rate for Inner London stood at 21.9 per cent , compared with 14.4 per cent at the 1981 census — a much steeper rise than for Outer London ; where the rates were 9.9 and 8.0 per cent respectively . |
| 2 | For married women under 60 there was a five-fold increase from 12 per cent in 1931 to 57 per cent at the 1981 census . |
| 3 | Conversely , privately rented dwellings had fallen in proportion from 44.6 per cent at the former date to 16 per cent in 1975 . |
| 4 | As described earlier , our model of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ states that the relationship between incidence and outcidence determines prevalence , and assumes that annual outcidence is 20 per cent at the highest . |
| 5 | Now 30 per cent of its junior management are women , although that figure falls away to a paltry 1 per cent at the highest levels . |
| 6 | In 1977 , the average pay gap was still almost as large — 58 per cent at the geometric mean — but the women in jobs were more representative of their generation and more dissimilar to men in terms of work experience and education . |
| 7 | In regional elections on March 22 the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) of President François Mitterrand polled only 18.3 per cent of the vote in metropolitan France , compared with 29.88 per cent at the last regional elections in 1986 . |
| 8 | Year-on-year inflation stood at 6.4 per cent , compared with 6.5 per cent at the previous year end . |
| 9 | The Socialist Party ( Partido Socialista — PS ) emerged with 32.3 per cent as the largest party , attributed partly to government unpopularity but also to the emergence of Jorge Sampaio , elected PS secretary-general in January 1989 [ see p. 36945 ] , as a credible successor to Mário Soares at the party 's head and to electoral pragmatism which enabled the party to broaden its base . |
| 10 | The code proposed the creation of a two-tier administrative system to allow for the easier processing of non-controversial mergers and takeovers , the referring of important or unusual cases to a full Takeovers Committee ( which would be renamed the Takeover and Mergers Panel ) , the right of appeal to a new independent Takeovers Appeal Panel , and the retention of 5 per cent as the maximum amount of shares which a person controlling between 35 and 50 per cent of shares in a company could further purchase in any 12-month period . |
| 11 | For example , the Hospice des Enfants-Trouvés in Paris , founded 1670 , was admitting several thousand babies a year by the 1770s , equivalent to over 20 per cent of the yearly baptisms in Paris , although almost half came from outside the city , and 13 per cent into the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | This figure reached 23 per cent with the 928 in 1978 and nudged 24 per cent on the 944 . |
| 13 | In the latest three months the volume overall sales were down 1 per cent with the steepest falls registered by retailers of clothing and footwear , down 5 per cent and household goods , 4 per cent . |
| 14 | Two-thirds of DGMs report some form of joint commissioning arrangements for their 1992 – 93 contracts , of which 75 per cent are working with another DHA , 66 per cent with an FHSA but only 31 per cent with the local authority . |
| 15 | The Rompress news agency reported on March 10 that the NSF had received 33.6 per cent of votes cast in the local polls as compared with 24.3 per cent for the Democratic Convention , an alliance of opposition parties . |
| 16 | These showed an increase , between 1975 and 1979 , in the proportions of both men and women who are members of occupational pension schemes , rising from 63 per cent to 68 per cent for the former , and from 47 per cent to 55 per cent for the latter . |
| 17 | Wage information from Yorkshire is similarly supportive of the Gilboy position , suggesting a 50 per cent increase in the money wages of craftsmen and labourers in the West Riding between 1750 and 1780 and in the North Riding an increase of 100 per cent for the former and 33 per cent for the latter . |
| 18 | Real growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) was estimated at less than 2 per cent for the financial year to June 1989 , compared with a target figure of 6.2 per cent . |
| 19 | This figure falls away to 12 per cent for the highest income group . |
| 20 | This reached a climax in the budget of March 1988 which reduced the rate of income tax to two bands only , 40 per cent for the rich and 25 per cent for all other income-tax payers . |
| 21 | The re-formed Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) won 10.8 per cent and the Communist Refoundation ( RC ) 3.5 per cent , their combined vote being well below the 19.4 per cent for the Communist Party ( PCI ) in 1986 . |
| 22 | The greatest gains were made by the separatist Northern League , which increased its vote from … 5 of a per cent to 9.3 per cent for the lower house . |
| 23 | The two-year deal amounted to 9.5 per cent for the first year and inflation plus 2.5 per cent for the second . |
| 24 | Overall funding for universities has increased by 10 per cent for the second year running . |
| 25 | Jarvella 's results show this pattern : in condition B the average recall of the first two clauses was almost the same ( 47 per cent for clause ( 1 ) , 50 per cent for clause ( 2 ) ) , whereas in condition A recall of the first clause was only 29 per cent , compared with 81 per cent for the second clause . |
| 26 | In an attempt to boost exports , Biya announced on Sept. 8 that the producer price of cocoa would be cut by 40 per cent for the 1989-90 season , and on Nov. 21 that the producer price of arabica coffee would be cut [ for slump in world cocoa and coffee prices see pp. 36635-36 ] . |
| 27 | It happened in Italy in the 1960s when the Communist Party had between 38 and 40 per cent for the entire decade . |
| 28 | Growth rates vary according to the polymer type , with ABS/SAN expanding at 6 per cent through the 1990s , compared with 8 per cent for the other engineering polymers . |
| 29 | Note also that the proportions of vole teeth affected by digestion are slightly higher in the short-eared owl : 2–4 per cent overall compared with less than 2 per cent for the other category 1 species ( see Table 3.12 ) . |
| 30 | These authors indicate that the incomes of the 65 — 74 age group in Britain are 76 per cent of the population average compared with 94 per cent for the other six European and North American countries included within their study . |