Example sentences of "[verb] 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these reasons advance payments are rare , and instead most importers make an advance cash deposit , of say 10 per cent and provide final settlement on the goods ' delivery or documents pertaining to them . |
| 2 | The reason for this policy is that it is relatively easy to obtain the first few marks ( say 10 per cent ) for an examination question . |
| 3 | Strictly speaking , it is not a takeover offer at all , but it forms one of the exceptions to the main prohibition in the SARs ( namely , acquiring 10 per cent or more of the target company 's voting rights ( or rights over shares ) in any seven-day period if the resulting holding is 15 per cent or more ) . |
| 4 | This would be sufficient to provide 10 per cent of the country 's electricity needs — enough to power a city the size of Amsterdam . |
| 5 | Coates and Silburn 's study ( 1970 ) showed that many of the poor were those without a male breadwinner , and Abel-Smith and Townsend 's study found 10 per cent of the poor belonging to fatherless families . |
| 6 | The chemicals company , ICI , which has 10 per cent of the world market in CFCs , undertook to end their manufacture by the same date . |
| 7 | Spending on R&D rose 10 per cent to £220m , and is expected to increase further in 1992 to £250m . |
| 8 | The survey showed that exports in the current fiscal year grew 22 per cent while imports rose 10 per cent . |
| 9 | They rose 10 per cent on 2 August , and also moved up when the UN imposed sanctions , when Iraq refused the UN 's call for withdrawal and when the UN set the 15 january deadline . |
| 10 | In the consumer brands business , Ribena 's sales rose 10 per cent and Horlicks 's , 5 per cent , though sales of Lucozade were unchanged . |
| 11 | On a brighter note , net asset value rose 10 per cent to 596.5p , from 542.2p , in the 12 months . |
| 12 | The Darling system covers 10 per cent of Australia 's land surface and is essential for one of the country 's main agricultural areas . |
| 13 | In fact , it will buy 10 per cent less or only 90 per cent of what it would have when you originally made the money available to your debtor . |
| 14 | At the request of Tory toughs , he has given 10 per cent extra scorn and 30 per cent extra snarl . |
| 15 | Ouko had apparently complied a file based on allegations that certain government members , including Biwott and Vice-President George Saitoti , had been demanding 10 per cent commissions in return for awarding contracts . |
| 16 | Today , 18,000 people are employed producing 10 per cent . |
| 17 | Russian Environment & Natural Resources Minister Viktor Danilov-Danilyan told a news conference in Moscow that : " Russia is now producing 10 per cent of all ozone-depleting substances . |
| 18 | This represents 10 per cent . |
| 19 | The pound has fallen 10 per cent against the mark since its peak early this year . |
| 20 | But now , with unemployment touching 10 per cent and rising , undeclared work and workers have become a political scapegoat . |
| 21 | The IGCC plant achieved an energy efficiency of 45-50 per cent , compared to 37 per cent for a conventional coal-fired station with flue-gas desulphurization equipment ; and it produced 10 per cent less carbon dioxide , only a seventh of the sulphur dioxide , a third of the nitrogen oxides , and no methane . |
| 22 | The Polish government has proposed transforming 10 per cent of its debts to western governments ( which total around US$32 billion ) into a domestic fund aimed at cleaning up the country 's environment . |
| 23 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 24 | In that case , the promoter receives 10 per cent of the net and the band gets 90 per cent . |
| 25 | Exactly how this is achieved is not clear , for experiments using 10 per cent HCI show that although the mineral content of the bones and dentine is removed , leaving the bones with a soft rubbery texture , there is usually some enamel still left on the teeth . |
| 26 | And it could knock 10 per cent off the National Health Service 's drugs bill by undermining price agreements between the government and the major drug companies . |
| 27 | The devaluation of the inti for the month of October was restricted to 6 per cent overall ; exporters were to receive 10 per cent of the value of their exports in foreign currency and 45 per cent in freely redeemable US dollar certificates , while the remaining 45 per cent would be paid in intis at the single exchange market rate ; import restrictions were eased ; to protect the silver sector against the continuing slump in prices since 1989 on the world market , the Central Reserve Bank was to buy silver at 5 per cent over the current market price ; fuel prices would rise by only 5 per cent in October , and public utility rates by less than the percentage rise in salaries , which themselves would be increased in accordance with inflation . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the Treasurer suggested that the worst was probably over , and that the recession would not be as deep as that of 1982/83 when GDP had declined for four consecutive quarters and both inflation and unemployment had exceeded 10 per cent . |
| 29 | While it is true that without the transport sector 's contribution , the overall rate of investment in the economy would not have exceeded 10 per cent of national income by 1815 , concentration on such macro-economic data tends to obscure the fact that the financing of improvements in transport was above all an example of regional capital formation . |
| 30 | As a proportion of all peasant land , the area in which scattered strips were consolidated into coherent holdings failed to reach 10 per cent . |