Example sentences of "of [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of the intifada to the Israeli economy up to March 1989 , according to the Labour Party , was put at US$750,000,000 , effectively wiping out Israel 's economic growth in 1988 of 2.3 per cent . |
| 2 | The government also forecast GNP growth of 2.5 per cent in 1993 ( up from 1.3 per cent ) , and inflation of 2.3 per cent ( the same as predicted for 1992 ) . |
| 3 | Scottish Opera , the biggest single beneficiary , receives £4,460,000 , a rise of 2.3 per cent . |
| 4 | Scottish Ballet gets £1.904 million , also an increase of 2.3 per cent . |
| 5 | The company described the 100MHz part at the recent Hot Chips conference as registering in excess of 70 SPECint92 and 130 SPECfp92 , the highest yet claimed . |
| 6 | The music melody continues with HOT STUFF an outrageous new musical which celebrates the era of 70 's glam-rock . |
| 7 | ‘ After the dark days of 70 's and 80's , I think we have turned the corner and have shown what can be done when , even in a remote community like ours , people get together and work for their mutual benefit . ’ |
| 8 | Municipal sewage works have used such methods to treat sewage since the early 1900s and the biogas produced , which consists on average of 70 per cent methane and 30 per cent carbon dioxide ( Hawkes and Hawkes 1987 ) , can be used to power the digestion plant itself . |
| 9 | When Harold Wilson took Labour to power with 48 per cent of the national vote in 1966 , he commanded the support of 70 per cent of manual workers and their families . |
| 10 | ( This is equivalent to some 200 TVRs , for a coverage of 70 per cent and , therefore , an OTS frequency of 2.9 , since OTS is equal to TVRs divided by coverage . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Particulars of Offence : [ The respondent ] on 17 September 1990 dishonestly and with a view to gain for himself or another , or with intent to cause loss to another , falsified a document required for an accounting purpose , namely , a computer generated sales invoice , by making an entry therein which was or may have been misleading , false or deceptive in a material particular in that it purported to show that a discount of 70 per cent . |
| 12 | The figure of 70 per cent left sided speech in non-dextrals accords reasonably well with Levy 's estimate of 63 per cent derived from the lesion data . |
| 13 | It should be noted , however , that the figure of 70 per cent applies only to one particular ( and rather loose ) criterion of non-right handedness . |
| 14 | The European Community has set a target to reduce landfill use from its present rate of 70 per cent to 10 per cent by the beginning of the next century . |
| 15 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the West German coalition decided on April 23 to offer the East German government a 1:1 conversion rate for savings up to 4,000 Marks and for wages and pensions ( which latter would also be raised , from less than 50 per cent of wages to the West German level of 70 per cent ) . |
| 17 | The Russian Federation government proposed the privatization of 70 per cent of the republic 's property and assets in a plan announced by Deputy Premier Mikhail Maley on 2 June . |
| 18 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |
| 19 | A major problem for LTOM is that it derives only 30 per cent of its turnover from retail investors unlike the average of 70 per cent achieved at other pure options exchanges such as the CBOE and the EOE . |
| 20 | Its purchase in early 1991 was followed later in the year by the acquisition of 70 per cent of Union Cervecera , Spain 's sixth largest brewer . |
| 21 | Instead , it is arguing for cuts of 70 per cent . |
| 22 | She was admitted for mobilisation , but tests requested the next morning on samples taken on the evening of admission showed a serum glucose concentration of 56.1 mmol/l . |
| 23 | Daily devaluations of the new cruzado were averaging 3.4 per cent in February , while inflation reached a monthly rate of 56.1 per cent in January 1990 and 73 per cent in February . |
| 24 | It was reported that BB was the basis of forty-seven per cent of French conversation — how this was computed is not easy to see but people said such things . |
| 25 | Almost half a million meals were served last year , an increase of forty-seven per cent . |
| 26 | Erm it 's a product of repressive seconda or er primary education is n't it . |
| 27 | Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited ( ‘ Anglo ’ ) and De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited ( ‘ De Beers ’ ) by virtue of Anglo 's interest of more than one third of the equity share capital of Minorco and JCI , and De Beers ' interest of more than one third in the equity share capital of Anglo , are also taken to have an interest in these same shares . |
| 28 | Fluctuations occurred throughout the year : the deficit in May was $10,200 million , an increase of 23.6 per cent over April due to an increase in imports of oil and industrial equipment and to the effect on exports of the rise in value of the dollar ; in July and September the deficits fell to a five-year low due to a decline in the purchase of foreign machinery and consumer goods , and to an increase in aircraft exports . |
| 29 | These included increases of 23.6 per cent on development projects , 78 per cent on the transmigration ( internal resettlement ) scheme , 200 per cent on spending on the bureaucracy and an 87 per cent increase in the President 's own fund for rural development . |
| 30 | A similar system of HLCA payments is suggested to those available anywhere in the UK 's LFA ( minimum qualifying area per farm of 3 hectares ; maximum payments of 97 ECU/LU ) but with the added provision that HLCAs can be paid on the first 10 dairy cows per farm . |