Example sentences of "rate [prep] over [num] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 6 he told delegates at a seminar on promoting private investment that multipartyism would be established " in the near future " , warning at the same time that current conditions , notably the illiteracy rate of over 70 per cent , were " not adequate to meet the challenge of multipartyism " . |
| 2 | ‘ As profits in many existing fields attract a marginal rate of over 83 per cent , there is little incentive for companies to keep costs under control or for additional investment in existing fields , ’ he claimed . |
| 3 | The wording of the question is not the factor leading to difficulty the same wording used with whole numbers for criterion 1 e produced a success rate of over 80 per cent . |
| 4 | There was a response rate of over 80 per cent from the staff . |
| 5 | One of the aims of the Government 's 1988 benefit reforms was to ensure that no working families were faced with a marginal tax rate of over 100 per cent . |
| 6 | The procedure can be done under local anaesthetic and has a success rate of over 90 per cent . |
| 7 | Such companies have at times faced a petroleum revenue tax rate of over 90 per cent , considerably in excess of anything they were led to expect when they first went into the North Sea . |
| 8 | Only half of the loan was to be released initially , and the remainder in two instalments by 1993 , conditional upon the success in meeting targets , which included a reduction in inflation from the present annualized rate of over 20 per cent to less than 10 per cent by 1993 , and a reduction of the public-sector deficit . |
| 9 | Economic uncertainty and a return to a monthly inflation rate of over 24 per cent had prompted an increasing trend for people to convert their assets into gold and dollars . |
| 10 | The estate , with 2000 houses , has an unemployment rate of over 50 per cent . |
| 11 | A great deal of discussion took place at the playground gate and when questionnaires were returned there was a 95 per cent response rate with over 98 per cent of those parents in favour of adopting a uniform on a voluntary basis including an agreement on colour and style . |
| 12 | Inflation in December was 59.6 per cent , bringing the annual rate to over 2,500 per cent . |