Example sentences of "of [adv] 5 [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he headed off demands for a capital levy , knowing it to be unacceptable to his party , but Britain nevertheless paid for a higher proportion of the costs of the war from taxation than the other combatants ; he was also able to launch the Victory Loan of 1917 at an interest rate of only 5 per cent , having a surer sense of the patriotism of potential subscribers than did the Treasury . |
| 2 | A section of the bank employees ' trade union voted on Feb. in favour of strike action after claims for salary increases in excess of 10 per cent were countered by an offer from the banks of only 5 per cent , plus a one-off lump sum payment of DM300 ( nearly US$200 ) . |
| 3 | Looking ahead , a balance of only 5 per cent expects to see an annual increase in February 1993 , compared with figures of plus 23 per cent last May and plus 26 per cent in June , figures which proved to be wildly over-optimistic in the event . |
| 4 | There was also expected to be ( i ) an attempt to reduce inflation to about 3 per cent per month ( from an estimated 30-40 per cent ) ; ( ii ) a budget deficit target of below 5 per cent of gross national product ; and ( iii ) a gradual rise in energy prices to achieve parity with world prices by the end of 1993 . |
| 5 | The titration curve was established by stepwise addition of approximately 5 µl 1 molar HCl , or NAOH . |
| 6 | In July 1978 , he announced bluntly that the government would commit the unions to a pay-increase norm of just 5 per cent for the next twelve months . |
| 7 | Velocity had fallen to 2.2 , an annual rate of decline of nearly 5 per cent . |
| 8 | The move has been interpreted as making Caird less likely to bid for Leigh Interests , a rival waste disposal group in which Caird has a stake of about 5 per cent . |
| 9 | To the list of writers who developed psychoses Karlsson adds , among others , Hugo , Scott , Tolstoi , Pope , and Poe and puts the overall incidence of such disorders among the individuals he surveyed at around 30 per cent ; a staggeringly high figure , given that , taken together , non-organic forms of psychosis are usually quoted as carrying a lifetime risk of about 5 per cent . |
| 10 | The report said that continuing economic reform , despite its short-term costs , might allow annual growth of about 5 per cent by the end of the 1990s . |
| 11 | The government 's economic programme for 1991 was designed to achieve real economic growth of about 5 per cent , to hold inflation down to 14 per cent and to limit the deterioration in the current-account balance . |
| 12 | Defence spending would rise by 7 per cent to Rs175,000 million , implying a cut in real terms , for the second year running , of about 5 per cent [ see p. 38337 ] . |
| 13 | Although this analysis is not strictly accurate — there is always a compression/decompression overhead of about 5 per cent — the benefits and potential cost savings are substantial and compression techniques have been a major field of development from the time of the very earliest digital databases . |
| 14 | Indeed , they were sufficient to allow an increase in the labour force of about 5 per cent at constant wages . |
| 15 | The Californian population of sea lions is increasing at the rate of about 5 per cent a year . |
| 16 | Following the first oil shock , inflation rose from a figure of about 5 per cent in both countries in the early 1970s to an annual average of 16 per cent in Britain and 19 per cent in Spain in the period 1973–8 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is expected the increases will be introduced in three annual stages of roughly 5 per cent . |
| 19 | Furthermore , conducting a random sample survey of even 5 per cent of Wirral 's 260,000 adult residents would have been both very expensive and extremely time-consuming . |
| 20 | Other guaranteed income bonds are paying an average of around 5 per cent on £5,000 left tied up for a year . |
| 21 | The pact was designed to allow the Reserve Bank of New Zealand ( central bank ) , which had anticipated wage rises of around 5 per cent ( the current rate of inflation ) , to relax its tight monetary policy and to reduce interest and mortgage rates accordingly . |
| 22 | Although final results were yet to be computed , the opposition Liberal-National alliance appeared to have won at least 19 of the 35 seats in the House of Assembly , with the ALP suffering an adverse swing of around 5 per cent . |
| 23 | Again , more double drilling , giving a choice of either 5 ½ inches or 6 inches of nasal plywood . |
| 24 | On a more technical note , since August 1990 pension schemes which are in surplus over the Inland Revenue limit ( 5 per cent ) are no longer allowed to have the money returned to the company unless pension scheme members are first guaranteed certain benefits , namely : pension increases of either 5 per cent a year or the rate of inflation — whichever is lower . |