Example sentences of "by [prep] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | That should nudge Whitbread 's share of the British beer market up by about one per cent to about 14 per cent . |
| 2 | In this case , between 1960 and 1975 , the dominant and bureaucratic-technical classes increased their share of national income by about 1 per cent , at the expense of the informal sector , which experienced a decrease of 1.3 per cent . |
| 3 | Between 1960 and 1968 materials prices rose about ½ per cent per year and final goods prices by about 1 per cent . |
| 4 | I mean just out of Heathrow and Gatwick I think traffic has dropped by about twenty per cent over the erm past two weeks , but that 's now beginning to pick up again . |
| 5 | Pregnant women are generally advised to reduce their MHR by about 20–25 per cent — the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists cautiously recommends that pregnant women do n't exercise above 140bpm — so the Pacer could help you run sensibly during pregnancy . |
| 6 | ‘ Even though we are expecting an inflationary increase of 1.9 per cent , our costs have gone up by between 6 per cent and 7 percent . |
| 7 | ANYBODY with unit-linked pension plans invested in mixed or equity funds will have seen the value of their investment rise by between 20 per cent and 35 per cent in the last six months or so . |
| 8 | Market indicators show that capital values in public houses have fallen in the past two years by between 50 per cent and 60 per cent . |
| 9 | Scales , including map scales Questions concerned with the sizes of objects in a diagram of a room with scales 4 cm 1 metre were correctly done by From 33 per cent to 71 per cent depending on the measurements involved ( p.94 ) . |