Example sentences of "cent [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Influenced by the lower pound , earnings jumped by 22 per cent during the period and over the nine months . |
| 2 | Only the tertiary sector has maintained a larger share of the cake , an average of over 4 per cent during the period from 1978/79 and 1986/87 , compared with 1.04 per cent for general education in the decade from 1978 to 1989 ( see Figure 9.4 ) . |
| 3 | If the index is calculated to be 125 in 1985 , say , this simply means that the average price of the goods included in the calculation has risen by 25 per cent during the period 1980–85 . |
| 4 | The rate of increase slipped to 3 per cent during the period compared with 3.6pc in the three months to the end of January , the Labour Research Department said in a survey of more than 600 settlements . |
| 5 | ( Germany grew at 2 per cent during the period 1973–84 ; Hong Kong grew nearly five times as rapidly . ) |
| 6 | Lansley 's analysis of the housing tenure of the poorest 10 per cent of households shows that the proportion who are owner-occupiers remained the same , i.e. 25 per cent during the period 1953–73 ; the proportion living in local authority accommodation increased from 13 per cent to 45 per cent , and the proportion living in privately rented and other accommodation was halved from 62 per cent to 31 per cent . |
| 7 | Two hot summers in succession have helped Britain 's hare population to increase by 20 per cent during the period 1989-90 , according to the annual survey of the Game Conservancy . |
| 8 | A report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has revealed that the rate of destruction of the world 's tropical forests has increased by 40 per cent during the period 1980-90 . |
| 9 | Notice that money national income has increased by 100 per cent during the period , but prices have risen by 20 per cent from the base year figure of 100 in 1983 to 120 in 1988 , and population has risen by 33⅓ per cent from 3,000 to 4,000 inhabitants . |
| 10 | Comparing the deflated figures , we see that real national income ( or national income in constant prices ) has increased by 66⅔ per cent during the period . |
| 11 | For example , in 1958 the Irish Republic decreed that profits from exports by Shannon Industrial Estate companies would be exempt from tax for 25 years , and profit tax remission for firms outside Shannon was to be 100 per cent for a period of 10 years . |
| 12 | And in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten , by far the largest ‘ bourgeois ’ newspaper in the Munich area but also with much wider circulation , the 44 per cent of May and June 1940 had dropped by June and July 1941 to 29 per cent , reached 15 per cent for the period October to December 1941 , and sank to only 7 per cent by October and November 1942 . |
| 13 | Between 1870 and 1879 , the number of births to the families of male manual workers was 25 per cent higher than those to non-manual families , but this widened to 42 per cent for the period 1910–1924 . |
| 14 | Even here , manufacturing 's share of production , of ‘ gross domestic product ’ , fell only from 30 per cent in the period 1961 to 1976 to 25 per cent in 1984 ( Harris , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | The problem coincided with the release of statistics from the government 's Warren Springs Laboratory , showing that nitrogen oxide levels had increased by 33 per cent in the period 1986-91 , roughly in line with the increase in road traffic . |
| 16 | Drink sales averaged £180,000 per unit , showing an increase of approximately 10 per cent over the period . |
| 17 | Their wages increased by 30 per cent over the period through competition with industrial wages , to add to increases in costs from aspirations in housing , transport , social life , and many new conveniences , at a time when the general trend in prices was downwards ( Deane and Cole 1969 ) . |
| 18 | Real personal disposable income rose 15 per cent over the period . |
| 19 | Whilst the total number of holidays authorized increased by nearly 50 per cent over the period shown both Thomson and Intasun expanded by a greater proportion but with Intasun far outstripping Thomson 's growth . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the proportion of older men remaining economically active fell by 50 per cent over the period 1975–88 while the rate for older women was relatively stable ) . |
| 21 | For , ‘ new industrial regions ’ ( Greater London , Warwickshire , Staffordshire and Worcester shire ) expanded their share of net output from 28.7 per cent to 37.1 per cent over the period 1924 to 1935 ( Pollard , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | So even though the yield has not changed from 10 per cent over the period , the holding period return is less than 10 per cent . |
| 23 | Reworking of her indices by Deane and Cole suggests that between the quinquennium 1750 – 4 to 1785 – 9 money wage rises in the South varied between less than 4 per cent for London labourers and 19.4 per cent for those of Kent , whereas in Lancashire labourers gained 64 per cent and craftsmen 40.5 per cent over the period . |
| 24 | An analysis of major countries from 1974–1990 including France , Germany , UK , USA and Australia , showed that advertising expenditure rose by more than 70 per cent over the period ( weighted average ) but that alcohol consumption per capita declined . |
| 25 | The region is the fastest-growing car market , with Thai car sales increasing by 30 per cent over the period 1988-91. * Indonesia and China are both reported to be planning similar laws to make " cats " obligatory . |
| 26 | The Daimler-Benz study claims that carbon dioxide levels will actually increase by 10 per cent over the period because control efforts are being cancelled out by increased traffic volumes . |
| 27 | In its second environmental report , the chemicals company ICI claims that it has reduced its worldwide emissions by 9 per cent over the period 1991-92 . |
| 28 | Energy consumption in the member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD — which groups most of the industrialized countries ) is set to rise by 30 per cent over the period 1990-2010 , according to a report by the International Energy Agency . |
| 29 | With consumer prices rising by some 15 per cent over the period , the fall in the real value of the shares was considerably greater . |