Example sentences of "cent [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SECOND Alliance Trust has again outperformed the FT Actuaries All-Share Index in its first six months , lifting its net asset value per share by 22.7 per cent , from £13.62p a year ago to £15.7p , compared with the index 's 19.3 per cent rise over the same period , writes George Duthie . |
| 2 | Scottish Office figures suggest a 124 per cent rise over the Thatcher decade in the number of homeless ‘ households ’ seeking help in Scotland , and a 101 per cent rise in the numbers assessed homeless . |
| 3 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 4 | We had 80 per cent occupancy over the entire year , yet we 're about 25 per cent down on budget for those occupancy figures . ’ |
| 5 | The government is committed to a 60 per cent reduction over the same period . |
| 6 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 7 | I made , I think , a 2 per cent or 3 per cent error over the whole test . |
| 8 | The Guardian/ICM poll , taken last week when interest rates went up to 15 per cent , also found that Labour had maintained its 10 per cent lead over the Conservatives . |
| 9 | It suggests that the market will continue to show growth of 2.9 per cent pa over the next five years despite the major question mark over recyclability and solvent emissions . |
| 10 | Car insurance premiums shot up by almost a quarter — and drivers will suffer 15 per cent rises over the next year . |
| 11 | If , because of the size of the cylinder index , only a higher-level index than the cylinder index can be held in main storage , a 20–50 per cent improvement over the performance of the file when the master index is stored on disk can still be achieved . |
| 12 | The study , which includes flame retardants , antioxidants , heat stabilisers , light stabilisers , colorants and blowing agents , forecasts an 18 per cent growth over the five year period with sales rising from $1200m in 1991 to $1300m in 1996 . |
| 13 | The amount of silt that the Huanghe brings to the China Sea ( 1.6 × 10 t per year ) represents a 25 per cent increase over the last 30 years and is due mainly to the conversion of grasslands to arable fields ( Smil 1987b ) . |
| 14 | This compares with a 22 per cent increase over the same period last year |
| 15 | Even so , contract caterers are now providing nearly 55 per cent of meals served in business and industry , a 11 per cent increase over the previous year and the overall number of outlets operated by contractors also grew by one per cent . |
| 16 | Foreign nationals would be permitted to hold a maximum 20 per cent of the 60 Legco seats ( a 5 per cent increase over the political subcommittee 's recommendations ) . |
| 17 | Indo-Soviet trade , which had been increasing rapidly , was expected to grow further after the signing of a trade protocol worth Rs70,000 million in 1989 , a 35 per cent increase over the sum for 1988 . |
| 18 | This surplus amounted to no more than 73 per cent of debt service and remittance payments ; and in spite of a 57 per cent increase in the volume of exports since 1980 , poor prices meant that the value of such exports represented a mere 24 per cent increase over the decade . |
| 19 | The plan called for investments totalling US$6,831 million — a 56 per cent increase over the previous five-year period — and an annual 5 per cent growth rate . |
| 20 | The police force , in response to the explosion of crime during 1990 , was to receive R4,600 million , a 53 per cent increase over the previous year , and 5 per cent of the total budget . |
| 21 | On May 25 the Taiwanese Board of Foreign Trade released figures which showed that trade between Taiwan and eastern Europe had amounted to US$194,100,000 during the first four months of 1991 an 82.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 . |
| 22 | The Intergovernmental Group for Indonesia ( IGGI ) meeting in the Netherlands agreed on June 12 to provide a record US$4,750 million in aid and credits to Indonesia in 1991/92 , a 5.3 per cent increase over the 1990/91 package . |
| 23 | Industrial output had shown a 13.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 , exports an 18.5 per cent increase , and imports a 15.9 per cent increase . |
| 24 | The budget , which was passed by the Diet 's lower house on March 14 , totalled 70,347,000 million yen , a 6.2 per cent increase over the initial budget for fiscal 1990 . |
| 25 | The country recorded a current-account deficit of US$2,430 million for the first 11 months , a 63 per cent increase over the equivalent period for 1989 . |
| 26 | Despite reports that Japan intended to withhold aid pending India 's adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) [ see p. 38727 ] , Rao secured pledges of Japanese economic assistance worth US$850 million — a 6 per cent increase over the previous year 's allocation — and a further US$500,000 in cultural aid . |
| 27 | On Nov. 10 IDB president Ahmed Muhammad Ali told delegates that the IDB had approved 194 financing operations worth 968,000,000 Islamic dinars ( ID ) ( about US$1,330 million ) during 1991-92 , representing a 48 per cent increase over the previous year . |
| 28 | Figures released this week show that in the year to April 1 , people here were prosecuted for attempting to dupe the Social Security Agency — a seven per cent increase over the previous year . |
| 29 | We do n't anticipate the same rate of increase that we saw last year , but we 'd be expecting probably somewhere in the region of a 10 to 15 per cent increase over the coming year . |
| 30 | Recent surveys by the National Science Teachers Association ( NSTA ) show an 80 per cent decline over the past ten years in the number of maths and science teachers turned out by colleges and universities . |