Example sentences of "[num] [was/were] [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , growth in R&D spending between 1990 and 1991 was only 5 per cent , largely as a result of a rationalization of research on agrochemicals . |
| 2 | The expected growth in world air travel in 1991 was only 3 per cent in 1991 , he said , compared with the " more usual " 6 to 7 per cent . |
| 3 | Output during the first 6 months of 1991 was down 22.6 per cent on the same period in 1990 . |
| 4 | Weekly earnings in 1812 were only 16 per cent above their 1793 level , although they had been 25 per cent higher in 1808 . |
| 5 | Motorcyclist casualties in 1992 were down 13 per cent with deaths falling 16 per cent and serious injuries down 14 per cent . |
| 6 | Despite the generally poor economic climate , physical demand for platinum in 1992 was only 6 per cent lower than in 1991 . |
| 7 | Even though the prices of many of the goods which were used in constructing the retail price index were subject to government control , the official consumer price index increased between January 1970 and September 1973 by 119 per cent and , using this same index , the official rate of inflation in the fourth quarter of 1973 was over 500 per cent . |
| 8 | If the volume index is to be trusted , the average annual rate of real growth of Yugoslav exports from 1979 to 1987 was nearly 2.5 per cent , although almost all of this occurred between 1983 and 1985 , after which there was a slight decline . |
| 9 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 10 | Taking three of the early stations — Heysham , Hartlepool and Dungeness — their average annual availability to produce power between 1987 and 1989 was respectively 43 per cent , 27 per cent and just 15 per cent . |
| 11 | For example , one-quarter of women aged 16–34 getting married in the period 1979–82 lived with their husbands before marriage , while the corresponding proportion for those married between 1970 and 1974 was only 8 per cent . |
| 12 | In 1931 , this proportion stood at 14 per cent but by 1974 was only 6 per cent . |
| 13 | The percentage of households earning more than $50,000 in 1980 was about 80 per cent of the city average . |
| 14 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |