Example sentences of "a [adv] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 2 | The debt continues , because real short-term interest rates are six and a half per cent ( they are as good as zero in the United States ) . |
| 3 | Although total revenues generated in the first-class game increased in actual terms , by seven and a half per cent , to the £24.5 million mark , the inexorable rise in costs has taken over £1 million out of the combined surpluses of the counties , which have descended to a dangerously low level of just under |
| 4 | Every one per cent change of moisture content may cause about a half per cent shrinkage or swelling . |
| 5 | ‘ Not one per cent here and a half per cent there , but a cut which will give small businesses an immediate boost and spread confidence throughout the economy . |
| 6 | We are trying to keep up with the Germans , whose central bankers call their four and a half per cent inflation rate monstrously high , and would barely tolerate a return to two per cent . |
| 7 | The Labour Force Survey ( LFS ) , which is based on a half per cent sample , collects information from about 80,000 households and about 120,000 people each year . |
| 8 | The 1981 Census was estimated to have been under-counted by about half a per cent ( around two hundred thousand people ) in England and Wales as a whole and by about two and a half per cent in Inner London ( about fifty five thousand people ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Four per cent is the average figure for companies in the electrical and electronics field , whilst three and a half per cent is common in the aerospace and chemical fields , ’ added Stuart . |
| 10 | Sinn Fein 's vote was up by 1.2pc ( 5pc in Belfast ) , yielding 51 seats , and although the DUP 's fell by a half per cent overall , it was up 3.2pc in Belfast . |
| 11 | On average , a body is injected with approximately 12–16 pints of the one and a half per cent or two per cent solution and this takes place over a time period of approximately one to two hours . |
| 12 | A swing of a mere one and a half per cent would win the seat for Liberal Democrat Gwynoro Jones who was Labour MP in the early seventies . |
| 13 | he 's vulnerable to a swing of four and a half per cent to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 14 | Full control requires thirty five seats which would be a swing of one and a half per cent to the Conservatives or six to Labour . |
| 15 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 16 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
| 17 | Tonight we find out what the effects would be of a seventeen and a half per cent tax on books and newspapers . |
| 18 | Staff already have challenging task of keeping up with the demands of an ever changing national curriculum , if every book they bought cost seventeen and a half per cent more they 'd simply have to buy fewer books . |