Example sentences of "to under [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the autumn of 1987 and during the early part of 1988 , some of us , it is true , questioned the lowering of interest rate levels , but the Labour party did not criticise the lowering of interest rates to under 8 per cent . |
| 2 | The most basic of the " structural reforms " reportedly being demanded by the IMF was the reduction of India 's overall fiscal deficit from approximately 8.3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) to under 6.5 per cent . |
| 3 | It succeeded at a stroke in reducing tenanted land from over 45 per cent of the cultivated area to under 10 per cent . |
| 4 | The proportion averaged one in five for Inner London as a whole , but at borough level ranged from almost 30 per cent in Haringey to under 10 per cent for Kensington and Chelsea and was in fact highest for an outer borough — Brent — at 33.5 per cent . |
| 5 | AFTA would be implemented through the common effective preferential tariff ( CEPT ) mechanism , which would become operational in 1993 , and under which there would be tariff reductions to under 5 per cent on 15 groups of products by 2008 . |
| 6 | By 1986 , the proportion of GDP had fallen to under 15 per cent , employment to 1.2 million ( less than 5 per cent of the total ) , and GDFCF to 9 per cent . |
| 7 | The authors also show ( Table 5.1 ) that the percentage of graduates in all the 31 subjects in their study employed after three years in the three largest type of work categories for that subject ranged from 100 per cent in three subjects ( pharmacy , graphic design , electrical engineering ) to under 60 per cent in three others ( science , English literature and interfaculty studies ) . |
| 8 | Figures for the first pregnancies conceived before marriage show the same trend , falling from around the 40 per cent in the early nineteenth century to under 20 per cent in the early twentieth century . |