Example sentences of "rate be [adv] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that interest rates in Italy are higher by 2 per cent than in the UK and at the same time the necessary discount applied to the spot rate were only 1 per cent . |
| 2 | But if the full peak-to-peak period , 1979 to 1988 , is counted , our average growth rate is just 2.1 per cent — the same as for the OECD countries as a whole . |
| 3 | And even if based on the assumption that no more returns can be included In analysis , the response rate is over 50 per cent of the total number of questionnaires sent out . |
| 4 | A single gene may be responsible in that although the identical twin concordance rate is only 40–50 per cent , there has been some suggestion that the other twin often has some schizoid features of personality which may be the same disease in a much milder form ( Emery , 1975 ) . |
| 5 | The risk-free rate is currently 10 per cent and the expected market rate of return is 15 per cent and neither is expected to change over the 5-year investment period . |
| 6 | For other frauds the rate is about 77 per cent . |
| 7 | The clear-up rate is about 30 per cent . |
| 8 | Many subjects are still examined by a single pass-or-fail hurdle at the end of a two-year course , and the failure rate is around 30 per cent . |
| 9 | The usable response rate was thus 81 per cent overall . |
| 10 | Despite registering a minus year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 1989 , the inflation rate was over 2.5 per cent by the third quarter . |
| 11 | In 1982 , the death rate for adult professional and managerial employees was 23 per cent below the overall average , while for unskilled workers the death rate was almost 40 per cent above the average . |
| 12 | ( The French population tended to shift to the towns much more slowly ; we are told the rate was about 3 per cent per decade down to 1911 , and this had been true for a century . ) |
| 13 | The Zimbabwe dollar fell by 47 per cent against the dollar in 1991 and the annual inflation rate was about 30 per cent . |
| 14 | In 1972 the official unemployment rate was under 4 per cent , and of those questioned in the Nuffield survey , only 5 per cent told interviewers that they were currently out of work . |
| 15 | IN eastern Dartmoor , which is under strong developmental pressure , the refusal rate was 55 per cent , while in western Exmoor , an area of population decline , the refusal rate was only 42 per cent ( table 7.1 ) . |
| 16 | In the west ( Kordofan and Darfur ) and the parts of the south for which any figures were available in 1986/87 ( for some areas no figures were available because of the war ) the average pass rate was below 50 per cent . |