Example sentences of "[num] per cent over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This included 7,777,400 million won for defence spending , an increase of 12.9 per cent over the previous year . |
| 2 | As a result of these measures turnover has risen by 22 per cent over the last two years with profits up by 447 per cent to an annual average of 93,000 . |
| 3 | Although statistics do not explain why people are increasingly in debt they do explain why ‘ negotiating debt ’ enquiries have increased by 330 per cent over the last three years in Scottish CABx . |
| 4 | The average trend for the second-highest maximum one-hour ozone concentration recorded at 400 sites shows that ozone levels increased by 2 per cent over the 1979–88 period but decreased by 14 per cent over the 1980–9 period ( figure 8.8 ) . |
| 5 | OUTPUT in the Scottish electronics industry in 1991 increased by 2 per cent over the previous year 's , but the industry 's share of employment in Scotland remained at about 13 per cent . |
| 6 | In the depths of the worst recession for 60 years , carbon dioxide emissions in the UK actually increased by 2 per cent over the past two years . |
| 7 | Given current trends , car usage will increase by between 80 per cent and 140 per cent over the next 30 years . |
| 8 | Professor Hoskins , basing his cost-of-living calculation on a range of local price data , not simply cereals , calculated that whereas real wages of labourers and craftsmen fell by around 30 per cent over the second half of the eighteenth century , those of most woollen workers fell by nearer 50 per cent . |
| 9 | The salaries of senior directors have been rising by between 20 per cent and 30 per cent over the last year and the trend shows little sign of slowing . |
| 10 | MR TRISTAN Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , last night repeated the Government 's implacable opposition to plans of M Jacques Delors , EC Commission President , to raise the EC 's budget by 30 per cent over the next five years — a plan which would cost British taxpayers at least one billion pounds extra per year , writes Boris Johnson , EC Correspondent , in Luxembourg . |
| 11 | Investment goods output jumped 17 per cent in the fourth quarter , with engineering up 15 per cent and within that electrical and instrument engineering ahead 30 per cent over the previous quarter . |
| 12 | Although the fuel economy has improved by around 30 per cent over the past decade , there is evidence that the younger generation , in particular , feels the car is too ostentatious in today 's environment . |
| 13 | The Far Eastern Economic Review reported on Aug. 10 that the government had started distributing rice to urban residents at one-third of the free market price , which had risen by 30-50 per cent over the previous year . |
| 14 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 15 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S involvement in undermining attempts to freeze carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 ( Guardian , November 8 ) should perhaps be viewed together with the Department of Transport 's recently announced road-building programme , and projections that UK road traffic will increase by about 43 per cent over the next 20-30 years . |
| 16 | We also have to assume an average interest rate of 12 per cent over the 25 years . |
| 17 | Only 11,000 rhinos are believed to remain worldwide — a decline of 85 per cent over the last 30 years . |
| 18 | UK beer sales have fallen some 7 per cent over the first three months of this year , due to a combination of poor weather and recession . |
| 19 | As they told MPs , they had found that 34 per cent of mothers interviewed in their survey had failed to receive any increase in their housekeeping allowance in the previous year , while prices had risen 7 per cent over the same period ( HOC , 1973 , Vol . |
| 20 | Japan for instance , our largest single and most important market , has consistently increased beer sales by 6–7 per cent over the past three years . |
| 21 | Its aim is to boost Scotland 's manufacturing exports to Spain which last year totalled £474 million , an increase of 10 per cent over the 1991 figure . |
| 22 | Apart from Browne 's announcement that BP was increasing its North Sea investment by almost 10 per cent over the next three years , Shell outlined a scheme to spend £100 million refurbishing the Dunlin platform which will extend its economic life well into the next century . |
| 23 | You should never increase a long run , tempo run , speed session or total weekly mileage by more than 10 per cent over the previous week . |
| 24 | This improved the price-competitiveness of Turkish exports , which in the first quarter of 1991 rose by 10 per cent over the previous year , with Germany continuing as their largest single-country market . |
| 25 | ENROLMENT of full-time students in English polytechnics has increased by 47 per cent over the last eight years , compared with a rise of only 3 per cent in universities , Her Majesty 's Inspectors said yesterday . |
| 26 | Martell have substantially increased the prize money for the race to give a total prize fund of about £175,000 , this being an increase f three per cent over the previous year . |
| 27 | The number of hoax calls in the county has risen by twenty three per cent over the past five years . |
| 28 | In the six months to 31 July 1985 the unaudited profit of the group is expected to be £9.2m , an increase of 21 per cent over the corresponding period in the previous year . |
| 29 | The reported cases of indecent or sexual assault increased by 21 per cent over the 1977–87 decade , while the number of men convicted rose by only 2 per cent , a decline in the conviction rate from 31 per cent to 26 per cent . |
| 30 | The decision has aroused controversy because the fish 's decline ( by 90 per cent over the last 20 years ) is attributed to the increasing abstraction of water from the delta , which supplies two-thirds of California 's drinking requirements . |