Example sentences of "rise [prep] nearly [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public borrowing rose to nearly 10 per cent of national income — equivalent to £55,000 million today . |
| 2 | The proportion of the population over 60 rose to nearly 29 per cent by 1980 , most of them women . |
| 3 | But book and magazine sales at Smiths rose by nearly six per cent . |
| 4 | For the ACCs as a whole real take-home pay rose by nearly 1 per cent per year faster in the early 1970s than in the 1960s , despite the slowdown in productivity growth ( table 11.9 ) . |
| 5 | Fallow land rose by nearly 30 per cent to 37,000 hectares , of which just over 24,000 hectares was set-aside under the fallow option . |
| 6 | Between 1966 and 1975 , real earnings per employee rose by nearly 90 per cent in RENFE , although they were starting from a very low base in absolute terms ( Ferner and Fina 1988 ) . |
| 7 | In 1980 , under 10 per cent of drinks bought were in plastic bottles , while in 1987 this figure has risen to nearly 40 per cent . |
| 8 | , US steam coal prices may rise by nearly 25 per cent from the mid-1990s as a result of the US Clean Air Act of 1990 . |