Example sentences of "of 10 [no cls] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOLIDAYMAKERS could face average price rises of 10 per cent if a proposed EC directive aimed at increasing consumer protection is implemented , the Director of the Association of British Travel Agents warned yesterday , writes Patricia Wynn Davies . |
| 2 | Union leaders , however , were already invoking probable mortgage rises as a reason for an increase in excess of 10 per cent . |
| 3 | Figures for the year ended 31 March 1989 , due to be published at the end of the year , show an overall 8 per cent drop in the use of the ‘ green form ’ initial advice and assistance scheme , as compared with an overall increase the previous year of 10 per cent . |
| 4 | The interim dividend is 2.75p , a rise of 10 per cent . |
| 5 | Mr Michael Howard , the Housing Minister , said that the rent guidelines , published yesterday , assumed there would be a national increase of 10 per cent in gross rent income . |
| 6 | Home buyers approach the end of the decade seeing the value of their homes fall by an average of three to four per cent over this year and the prospect of an average fall of 10 per cent next year . |
| 7 | The steep post-war decline was arrested by the Korean War re-armament programme , which reached a peak of 10 per cent GDP in 1953 . |
| 8 | The Import Duties Bill of February 1932 also imposed a general tariff of 10 per cent on almost all imports , and the Import Duties Advisory Committee , which it formed quickly , raised the tariff to 20 per cent on manufactured goods , to between 25 and 30 per cent on luxury goods and to 33 per cent on chemicals and a wide range of other goods . |
| 9 | In the UK , investment during 1991 is estimated to have fallen by 15 per cent in real terms , compared with the forecast drop of 10 per cent , according to the CIA 's panel . |
| 10 | It is generally accepted that energy reductions of 10 per cent may be possible through simple steps which are often termed ‘ good housekeeping ’ . |
| 11 | We will continue to increase the Special Constabulary , which has seen a rise in recruitment this year of 10 per cent . |
| 12 | In December 1988 Gorbachev took the United Nations by storm and wrongfooted the American administration , then impotent during the hand-over of power from Reagan to President-elect George Bush , by announcing a unilateral reduction of 10 per cent in Russia 's conventional forces . |
| 13 | This increase was at an annual rate of 10 per cent between 1975 and 1980 , due to increased purchases of wheat , maize , sorghum , vegetable oils , dairy products , beans and sugar , all basic foodstuffs . |
| 14 | Rut , when all had been done to make provision more level and selection more scientific , a stubborn error of 10 per cent would remain . |
| 15 | Apart from the first seven items on the list above , an LEA must keep its costs of all excepted items within a limit of 10 per cent of the GSB . |
| 16 | With water as the liquid , scientists achieved efficiencies of 10 per cent , but semiconductor electrodes tend to rust . |
| 17 | Forty patients with advanced multiple sclerosis received either pure oxygen or a mixture of 10 per cent oxygen in nitrogen , for 90 minutes a day . |
| 18 | As we have already experienced a decline in manufacturing output of 10 per cent since 1979/80 , we can safely relegate this scenario to a status of ‘ low probability ’ . |
| 19 | But ‘ there can be no doubt , ’ says Rutter , that ‘ the estimate of 10 per cent was much too low . ’ |
| 20 | A research study from Cyprus showed that potatoes treated with a certain insecticide still contained a residue of 10 per cent ( 0.55mg per kg ) in the skin after 16 weeks of storage . |
| 21 | For example , suppose that last year people expected a rate of inflation this year of 10 per cent ; if the actual rate turns out to be 16 per cent , the expectation will have been in error by 6 per cent . |
| 22 | It provides that existing holdings of 10 per cent or more must be notified to the EC-listed company at the first annual general meeting which takes place more than three months after the Directive has been implemented ; they must be notified to the competent authority at the same time and must be made public within one month after the meeting . |
| 23 | All branches of Beaverbrooks also offer an earpiercing service using the Inverness System , a healthy authority approved and recognised method with a discount of 10 per cent on your first purchase of gold earrings . |
| 24 | At their 1931 annual meeting the Building Societies Association warned that prospective borrowers should have a personal stake in the property to the extent of 10 per cent — ‘ the limit of safe and prudent lending ’ . |
| 25 | In the present case 400mW is too low but 1.3W is well within ratings , even allowing for Zener tolerances and a possible mains surge of 10 per cent . |
| 26 | Arithmetic of a rather crude sort again gives figures in the general region of 10 per cent of the Young 's modulus for the theoretical shear strength . |
| 27 | In a new scheme , supported by Blue Cross Animal Care , Age Concern Pet Insurance pays for cost and treatment in excess of 10 per cent ( minimum £20 ) and up to a total of £1,250 for each accident and illness . |
| 28 | LAND Rover yesterday announced an increase in production of its £21,000 Discovery range by 550 a week — a rise of 10 per cent . |
| 29 | And with beer drinking declining at the rate of 10 per cent in the South East and five per cent in the North , breweries have realised they must cut prices . |
| 30 | At Cadbury Schweppes employees who do not receive an increase in their salaries as a result of relocation , receive an allowance of 10 per cent of their annual remuneration in addition to their disturbance allowance . |