Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adv] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal government had proposed that enactment of its September 1991 constitutional reform proposals [ see p. 38429 ] should depend on approval by seven provinces representing at least 50 per cent of Canada 's population , and the NDP could thus have an unexpected degree of influence over their fate . |
| 2 | Table 3.1 Types of work employing at least 1 per cent of university graduate output in each of 25 degree subjects , 1986–7 |
| 3 | All parties gaining at least 10 per cent of electoral support in each of the nine regions would send an equal number of representatives to an upper house . |
| 4 | In this recession , it is peaking at only 43 per cent . |
| 5 | Two salient age groups can be distinguished : the 16–30 age group , which contains all ages comprising at least 1 per cent of the users ( 92 per cent of all users ) ; and the 18–22 age group , which contains the five ages which each comprised at least 5 per cent of the users ( 56 per cent of all users ) . |
| 6 | For those savers who are prepared to lock up their minimum deposit of £5,000 for six months there is the Interest Assured Bond paying at least 11.5 per cent net . |
| 7 | A reflection of this is the way they are all trying to develop their lager interests in a market where lager is growing at nearly 10 per cent per annum and is likely to command over 40 per cent of all sales this year . |
| 8 | Although some farmers are adopting more intensive systems of production this is not yet at a fast enough rate to generate the large increases in marketed output necessary to feed the towns , where the population is growing at over 6 per cent per year . |
| 9 | The rural population is growing at over 2 per cent per year and densities are increasing . |
| 10 | In France , the launch of Glen Ord has put United Distillers in an improved position to benefit from a market which is currently growing at around 8 per cent per annum . |
| 11 | Although the economy was growing at around 2 per cent per annum , and although a fall in the value of the krone had brought the country 's trade balance back into surplus , its industries continued to suffer a severe crisis of confidence . |
| 12 | He said January 's figures , showing inflation rising at just 1.7 per cent a year , were excellent news and added that surveys showed the UK would have one of the fastest growing economies in Europe this year and next . |
| 13 | During the second half of the 1960s , GNP had been rising at about 3 per cent a year in Britain . |
| 14 | The latter should include an ‘ A ’ level pass in a Mathematics subject containing at least fifty per cent Pure Mathematics or an ‘ AS ’ level pass at grade C or above in an approved Mathematics examination . |
| 15 | It is a common fallacy to assume that all blown trees die ; on the contrary , those retaining at least 25 per cent root contact with the soil may well continue to grow , albeit with a shorter life expectancy . |
| 16 | If bound in our Galaxy they must be travelling at around 0.1 per cent the speed of light ; if bound within the Solar System ( as Earth is ) their velocity must be nearer 0–01 per cent that of light . |
| 17 | However , with inflation running at nearly 13 per cent , the increase in real terms was much lower . |
| 18 | I think you have to look after people both at work and when they retire and we inflation-proofed our pension scheme during the whole of that pretty dreadful time when inflation was running at over twenty per cent . |
| 19 | In early April it was reported locally that the government , as part of a proposed 15-point economic programme , was seeking to stabilize the economy without " shocks " , and to promote wide-ranging sectoral agreements to curb inflation ( still running at over 20 per cent a month ) while stimulating production and preserving jobs . |
| 20 | It was hoped to reduce inflation , which was still running at over 6 per cent a year , to below 5 per cent , and to enforce a 4.5 per cent ceiling on public-sector wage increases . |
| 21 | Table 16–1 shows that government spending , and the taxation that finances it , are now running at over 40 per cent of national income . |
| 22 | With the national rate of population growth running at under 0.2 per cent a year , population redistribution has virtually become a ‘ zero-sum game ’ , whereby any increase in one place can take place only at the expense of population levels in another place . |
| 23 | The new government , perhaps not knowing what else to do , took the drastic step of freezing all savings , while abandoning wage indexing even though inflation was still running at about 8 per cent a month . |
| 24 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 25 | The Conservative government elected in 1979 also took this view and promised to reduce the rate of inflation which was then running at about 12 per cent by reducing the rate of growth of M3 . |
| 26 | ‘ In a town where unemployment is running at about 20 per cent , the creation of jobs is important in itself , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Inflation surged 2,500 per cent in 1992 and is currently running at about 30 per cent a month . |
| 28 | A survey in Charity Trends ( 1990 ) of the top 400 companies in the United Kingdom showed corporate support as a share of profit running at about 0.6 per cent . |
| 29 | BELGRADE ( Reuter ) — The Yugoslav Prime Minister , Ante Markovic , leaving behind an economic crisis with inflation running at almost 1,200 per cent , flew to the US to ask for $1bn to back up his reform programme . |
| 30 | But even Ogonyok , considered the most chic and sought-after of the progressive press , is running at only 50 per cent of 1989 levels . |