Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tesco 's profits in the 24 weeks to August were up nine per cent at £253 million . |
| 32 | New car sales last month were up 6.3 per cent on last year . |
| 33 | Animal health profits rose 5 per cent on a 4 per cent higher turnover , and consumer brands ' profits were up 1 per cent , on a 12 per cent higher turnover . |
| 34 | Sales in the year to August grew by 19 per cent to £131m , while operating profits were up 17 per cent at £22.1m . |
| 35 | By sector , pharmaceutical sales were up 4 per cent to £2470m , while trading profits in the sector rose 13 per cent to £694m . |
| 36 | Profits and earnings per share rose 17 per cent and dividends to shareholders were up 10 per cent . |
| 37 | Pre-tax profits were up 7.5 per cent at £1.48million on turnover marginally ahead at £29.5million . |
| 38 | Excluding the volatile transportation sector , bookings were up 0.7 per cent . |
| 39 | Imports of consumer goods were up 19 per cent . |
| 40 | Unveiling a three-year growth plan to raise sales progressively from an expected 5,000 houses this year to an eventual figure of 8,000 , he said reservations were up 15 per cent in the first three months of the year . |
| 41 | However , in volume terms , exports were up seven per cent in the last three months compared with the previous three months and was up 13 per cent on a year ago . |
| 42 | The Nationalists were up seven per cent but ceded two of their five strongholds . |
| 43 | New car registrations were nearly 16 per cent higher in the latest three months than a year earlier . |
| 44 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 45 | It is not surprising , in view of these figures , that surveys made in 1608 suggest that Crown rents were often 60 per cent below an economic rental . |
| 46 | The government 's Economic Survey of Japan for 1952 noted that the products of heavy industry were typically 30–40 per cent more expensive than in other countries , because of high materials costs and low productivity . |
| 47 | If it were 20 per cent greater , there would be no less dissatisfaction and unfulfilled demand at the margin ; if it were 20 per cent less — I do not mean if it were reduced by 20 per cent but if it were now 20 per cent less than it actually is , nobody would be the wiser . |
| 48 | Coats had ‘ a unique competitive advantage ’ , as its ‘ quick-response ’ UK clothes-manufacturing facilities were now 20 per cent more competitive . |
| 49 | The establishments in India , with their low-salaried staff and their substantial share in the country trade , were self-supporting and profits on trade were about 5 per cent of turnover . |
| 50 | A spokesman for the college said levels were about 30 per cent above the comparable period last year , but this was not exceptional . |
| 51 | A spokesman for the college said levels were about 30 per cent above the comparable period last year , but this was not exceptional . |
| 52 | In the Khartoum and Northern regions , in 1986/87 pass rates at both primary and intermediate levels were around 70 per cent for both boys and girls . |
| 53 | Can find the volume of a 3-D cuboid given a 2-D representation Most of the success rates for items exemplifying this criterion were around 40 per cent . |
| 54 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
| 55 | For example , in the Cambridgeshire Health Authority , Jenkins and Walker ( 1985 ) found that data were around 20 per cent in error . |
| 56 | Northern offshore spotted dolphins were around 40–50 per cent of their original numbers , and common dolphins about 60 per cent . |
| 57 | The outcome of this dietetic juggling was that although astaxanthin and vitamin A acid were ineffective , the other three compounds were almost 100 per cent successful at enabling diapause induction . |
| 58 | Wage settlements were almost 6 per cent in the autumn of 1991 . |
| 59 | German industry had laid the basis for its later success in producing steel , chemicals and electrical goods , trade was now in surplus and growth rates were over eight per cent per annum . |
| 60 | Total Waterford Crystal US sales were over 10 per cent up on 1991 . |