Example sentences of "to 30 per [unc] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 45 per cent quota imposed in October 1948 , in a futile attempt to support the films encouraged into production during the American boycott , had to be lowered to 40 per cent when 1,600 cinemas claimed exemption on the grounds that there simply were n't enough films to show , and it was reduced again to 30 per cent in 1950 ( the level at which it remained until its abolition 23 years later ) . |
| 2 | At primary level , the drop-out rate rose to 30 per cent in the cohort which finished seven years of school in 1987 and then fell to 16.4 per cent for those finishing in 1989 . |
| 3 | During the period of massive repression in 1980 , rural drop-out rates were 40 to 50 per cent in each of the first six grades and 20 to 30 per cent in urban schools . |
| 4 | That brings the officially acknowledged contribution of petrol-lead to blood-lead up to 30 per cent in adults and nearly 25 per cent in children and boosts the case against lead in petrol . |
| 5 | Reductions of up to 30 per cent in the first week . |
| 6 | ( The basic rate of income tax was cut from 33 per cent to 30 per cent in the 1979 Conservative Budget — the ‘ Incentive Budget ’ — but further cuts were not made until 1986 when the rate was cut to 29 per cent , and thereafter to 27 per cent in 1987 and 25 per cent in 1988 ) . |
| 7 | The proportion of unmarried mothers living with their parents declined from 49 per cent in 1973–5 to 30 per cent in 1983–4 , with a corresponding increase in those living in their own home from 36 to 59 per cent over the same period . |
| 8 | The president of the National Monetary Board , Abelardo Pachano Bertero , stated in early January that debt interest payments would be limited to 30 per cent in 1990 , amounting to around $120,000,000 . |
| 9 | Government targets already agreed with the IMF included reducing the fiscal deficit from 6.1 per cent in 1989 to 2.5 per cent in 1990 ; reducing inflation from 89.3 per cent to 37.7 per cent in 1990 and to 30 per cent in 1991 ; and achieving growth of 2 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) during 1990 . |
| 10 | Saudi Oil Minister Hisham Nazer asserted that his country was actually intending to increase its production capacity by up to 30 per cent in the coming years , from the current 8,400,000 bpd to around 12,000,000 bpd ( compared with its agreed quota of 5,400,000 bpd before the outbreak of the Gulf war ) . |
| 11 | At present bicycles are used for only 2 per cent of journeys in the UK , compared to 30 per cent in the Netherlands and 20 per cent in Denmark . |