Example sentences of "[be] down [prep] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
| 2 | British Telecom prices are down by 27 per cent . |
| 3 | and over one-year waits are down by 24 per cent . |
| 4 | Contributions to Scotland from the touring fund of the Arts Council of Great Britain are down by 19 per cent to £452,000 . |
| 5 | Sex offences are down by 30 per cent . |
| 6 | When they lose , takings are down by 50 per cent . |
| 7 | I can confirm that my hon. Friend is right — over two-year waits in the west midlands are down by 31 per cent . |
| 8 | The Atlantic swordfish is at half 1978 levels , while breeding populations of bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic are down by 90 per cent since 1975 , from an estimated 250,000 to 22,000 . |
| 9 | At the same time , interest rates were reduced , the supply of money was relaxed , and the National Bank forecast that by the end of the year the annual rate of inflation would be down to 55 per cent . |
| 10 | Although it was announced last November that the awards would be down to 1.5 per cent , that did not stop politicians and union leaders from condemning the Government 's action . |
| 11 | We shall be down to 80 per cent . |
| 12 | Industrial output in 1990 was expected to be down by 60 per cent compared with 1989 [ see pp. 37742-43 ] . |
| 13 | Evening papers still reached 90 per cent of their local households in the early 1960s : by 1980 , they were down to 60 per cent . |
| 14 | Lengths of rivers classified as " grossly polluted " were down by 56 per cent . |
| 15 | Figures from the Graduate Teacher Training Registry show that applications for places on teacher training courses for physics are , in 1989 , down by 25 per cent on 1988 , while the 1988 figures were down by 17 per cent on 1987 ( Times Educational Supplement 4 April 1989 ) . |
| 16 | According to industry estimates , sales of nablabs last year were down by 25 per cent overall on the previous 12 months . |
| 17 | The Gulf crisis caused revenues from tourism to fall by 65 per cent ( official estimate ) by December and dues from the Suez canal were down by 25 per cent compared with 1989 . |
| 18 | However , international sanctions meant that foreign loan agreements were down by 51 per cent to $4,800 million . |
| 19 | The former nationalised industries are now making vast profits , the unions have been silenced , inflation is down to four per cent and we do n't have the crippling defence burden caused by keeping the USSR at bay . |
| 20 | By 7 years only 1.5 per cent of children are still soiling and by 10 to 11 years this is down to 0.8 per cent ( Bellman 1966 ) . |
| 21 | to 25 per cent. , and the top rate , a penal rate of 83 per cent. , is down to 40 per cent . |
| 22 | I am sure that the House will welcome the fact that it is down to 3.7 per cent . |
| 23 | In Yeovil , in the constituency of the leader of the Liberal Democratic party , the number of patients waiting for more than 12 months has been reduced by 45 per cent. , and the total waiting list is down by 10 per cent . |
| 24 | Elsewhere , the company is persuading people to take just one paper napkin instead of the traditional handful ( usage is down by 40 per cent at one US example ) and asking them to help themselves to just as many vegetables as they think they 'll realistically eat . |
| 25 | And robbery is down by twenty-four per cent . |
| 26 | Whereas in 1987–8 some 14 per cent of their wheat imports came as aid , in 1988–9 the percentage was down to 11 per cent . |
| 27 | The commerce sector was down to 7.8 per cent growth in 1990 , from 8.3 per cent in 1989 , and transport and communications also recorded a slight fall in growth , at 8.8 per cent compared with 9.4 per cent in 1989 . |
| 28 | From 1961 to 1973 , Spain 's growth had been 7 per cent a year , faster than in any capitalist economy except Japan ; by 1976 – 81 , growth was down to 1.4 per cent a year . |
| 29 | A new economic adjustment plan was announced in March 1991 [ see p. 38093 ] and the government claimed that inflation was down to 4.7 per cent for April . |
| 30 | By 1925 it was down to 7 per cent and in 1971 it stood at around 4.1 per cent . |