Example sentences of "per [no cls] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Aubrey records how Thomas Hobbes , the philosopher , was ‘ put into a Woollen shroud ’ at his death in 1679 , arguing that had Hobbes received the £100 per annum pension granted by Charles II in 1660 — ‘ At the Restoration , Charles II awarded him a pension of £100 a year — which , however , His Majesty forgot to pay ’ — then he might not have been buried in such a common shift . |
| 2 | Scientists at the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute in Durgapur , India , have found that hyacinth containing 60–70 per cent moisture ferments quickly . |
| 3 | In addition , until April 1993 , a further 2 per cent subsidy based on earnings will be paid . |
| 4 | Liberal Democrats would introduce a 50 per cent subsidy tapered over five years ( ie 50 per cent in year one , 40 per cent in year two etc ) for salaries of scientists and engineers working on R&D in small and medium sized companies . |
| 5 | A high degree of constructive conflict is almost essential in this process and I should perhaps quote the comments of a wise manager I worked for at one time , who pointed out that in industry the optimum level of conflict is not zero ; just as no friction or one hundred per cent friction immobilizes movement in a mechanical sense , so total absence of conflict or one hundred per cent conflict will immobilize movement in a company . |
| 6 | In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years . |
| 7 | Giving a 2.5 per cent discount to get your money in 30 days instead of 60 means that your money is costing you 2.5 per cent for 30 days . |
| 8 | So why not take advantage of the 15 per cent discount offered to all Ideal Home subscribers until May 1993 ? |
| 9 | A three per cent swing equates to one million electors changing their political allegiance . |
| 10 | These are some of the other possible changes in control that could take place : Conservative seats at risk to Liberal Democrats : Plymouth Sutton : surprise late retirement of Tory veteran Alan Clark encouraged Julian Brett Freeman to feel he can achieve the four per cent swing needed for victory . |
| 11 | Bristol Kingswood : Rob Hayward defending 4,393 majority against Roger Berry , Labour group leader of Avon county council ; 3.8 per cent swing needed . |
| 12 | We forgot the size of the 8 per cent swing required to give Labour an overall majority ; that the Tories had held their private leadership election 18 months before ; that recessions steel hearts rather than change them , driving people back to the devil they know , to secure their own base-line rather than pushing them towards adventurous alternatives . |
| 13 | In the Labour party , as in the TUC , the policy to impose a 5 per cent norm had provoked much fury , and the party conference in October heavily rejected the policy , even though Callaghan and Healey made it clear that they would ignore the views of the delegates . |
| 14 | The 17.5 per cent stake represents roughly a quarter of Anglia 's market capitalisation , but David McCall , chief executive , said he believed ‘ the share price has a long way to go yet ’ . |
| 15 | Delta , the electrical and engineering group , gained 18p to 353p , reflecting a near 2 per cent stake built by Tomkins , the industrial group created by Greg Hutchings . |
| 16 | The Premier Group whose business focuses primarily on the manufacture and distribution of food , groceries and pharmaceuticals , has a 28.1 per cent stake held by JCI . |
| 17 | Asked about the 19.5 per cent stake held by a rival brewer , he said he thought Boddington should sell it . |
| 18 | Last week the firm said it hoped to agree a sale of part of the 61 per cent stake owned by American Express as part of a deal to inject new equity into the firm . |
| 19 | There were 25 per cent pay cuts for Burton Group 's Sir Ralph Halpern and John Gunn of British & Commonwealth , who sank to earnings of £996,000 and £740,700 respectively . |
| 20 | The Federation of Venezuelan Workers ( CTV ) and other trade union organizations on Nov. 7 staged a 12-hour general strike in support of demands for 30 per cent pay increases to keep pace with the cost of living , a reduction in the price of petrol , and changes in economic policy . |
| 21 | The West German Defence Minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg , announced in the Bundestag ( Federal Parliament ) in Bonn on Sept. 28 , 1989 , that agreement had been reached among NATO air forces on new restrictions to reduce by up to 45 per cent noise caused by low-level military training flights over West Germany . |
| 22 | The ellipsis represent 90 per cent coincidence limits for the samples from named quarries . |
| 23 | The probability of one in ten is the same as odds of one to nine or 0.1111 , a 50 per cent probability corresponds to odds of one to one , or ‘ evens ’ , and so on . |
| 24 | But Hackney made up for those heart-stopping moments with 100 per cent willingness to try anything and his 200 per cent determination for the team cause . |
| 25 | The Cabinet also agreed to reduce cash allocations and other benefits to new immigrants , to reduce child allowances and to implement a 2 per cent across-the-board cut in spending by all ministries except Defence . |
| 26 | In an attempt to reduce support for Israel , OPEC announced a 10 per cent across-the-board cut in oil exports ( later briefly raised to 25 per cent ) and a selective embargo , directed chiefly at the United States . |
| 27 | The ten per cent addition assumed by the Eighth Schedule was , as in the 1947 Act , measured by the external cube , but it has since been modified to the smaller of cube or internal floor space , and only relates now to buildings in existence on 1 July 1948 . |
| 28 | The member concerned addressed the meeting but failed to achieve the required 75 per cent majority to overthrow the expulsion . |
| 29 | The government and its supporters eventually accepted this but then insisted on a 75 per cent majority applying to regional issues , including the country 's future status as a unitary or a federal state . |
| 30 | S&N , not for the first time , enjoyed a heady ferment as , once again , the market was gripped by the story that the Elders ' 23.7 per cent shareholding had found a new home . |