Example sentences of "of about 5 [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move has been interpreted as making Caird less likely to bid for Leigh Interests , a rival waste disposal group in which Caird has a stake of about 5 per cent . |
| 2 | To the list of writers who developed psychoses Karlsson adds , among others , Hugo , Scott , Tolstoi , Pope , and Poe and puts the overall incidence of such disorders among the individuals he surveyed at around 30 per cent ; a staggeringly high figure , given that , taken together , non-organic forms of psychosis are usually quoted as carrying a lifetime risk of about 5 per cent . |
| 3 | The report said that continuing economic reform , despite its short-term costs , might allow annual growth of about 5 per cent by the end of the 1990s . |
| 4 | The government 's economic programme for 1991 was designed to achieve real economic growth of about 5 per cent , to hold inflation down to 14 per cent and to limit the deterioration in the current-account balance . |
| 5 | Defence spending would rise by 7 per cent to Rs175,000 million , implying a cut in real terms , for the second year running , of about 5 per cent [ see p. 38337 ] . |
| 6 | Although this analysis is not strictly accurate — there is always a compression/decompression overhead of about 5 per cent — the benefits and potential cost savings are substantial and compression techniques have been a major field of development from the time of the very earliest digital databases . |
| 7 | Indeed , they were sufficient to allow an increase in the labour force of about 5 per cent at constant wages . |
| 8 | The Californian population of sea lions is increasing at the rate of about 5 per cent a year . |
| 9 | Following the first oil shock , inflation rose from a figure of about 5 per cent in both countries in the early 1970s to an annual average of 16 per cent in Britain and 19 per cent in Spain in the period 1973–8 . |
| 10 | For example , if the bid-price were £95 for a Bill with a face value of £100 , the government would be paying a 3-monthly interest rate of about 5 per cent ; if the bid-price rose to £98 , the 3-monthly interest rate would fall to about 2 per cent . |