Example sentences of "rate of about [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borrowers with companies financed by the wholesale money markets are already paying rates of about 14.75 per cent . |
| 2 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 3 | Government economists predicted that the economy would experience a slight dampening in overall performance during fiscal 1989 ( partly due to the imposition of the 3 per cent GCT ) and forecast a GDP growth rate of about 4.5 per cent . |
| 4 | According to recent reports , there is £8bn outstanding on credit cards in the UK , which works out at an average of between £350 and £400 on each card in issue with an interest rate of about 26 per cent a year . |
| 5 | Introducing the broad outlines of an economic programme marking a new direction for Brazil , Haddad said on Dec. 31 that the fight against inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of about 1,500 per cent , took second place to plans to improve living standards by doubling and possibly quadrupling the minimum wage and creating 4,000,000 new jobs over the next two years through selective economic development . |
| 6 | The Californian population of sea lions is increasing at the rate of about 5 per cent a year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since 1981 , the electronics industry had increased output by an average rate of about 14 per cent a year in real terms . |
| 9 | We already have an inflation rate of about five per cent and it is projected to go higher yet this year . |
| 10 | The main targets were as follows : ( i ) to increase gross national product ( GNP ) at an average annual growth rate of about 6 per cent ; ( ii ) to increase the total output value of industry and agriculture at an average annual rate of 6.1 per cent ; ( iii ) to increase total agricultural output at an average annual rate of 3.5 per cent , with grain output reaching 500,000,000 tonnes and cotton 5,250,000 tonnes by 2000 ; ( iv ) to increase total industrial output at an average annual rate of 6.8 per cent , with the output of raw coal reaching 1,400 million tonnes , electricity 1,100 million kWh , steel 80,000,000 tonnes , chemical fertilizer 120,000,000 tonnes and rail freight 1,900 million tonnes ; ( v ) to ensure that 40 per cent of major products in the machine-building and light industry sector reached or approached relatively advanced international standards ; ( vi ) to raise the proportion of the tertiary sector in the GNP from the current 25 per cent to around 33 per cent ; and ( vii ) to control the average annual population growth rate at below 12.5 per thousand . |
| 11 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 12 | In spite of this German industry expanded rapidly : between 1870 and 1913 the UK economy was growing at an annual rate of about 2.2 per cent ; the French economy at 2.6 per cent ; the US economy at 3.2 per cent ; and the German economy at a staggering 4.3 per cent . |
| 13 | Northleach has an unemployment rate of about three per cent . |