Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales , on a like-for-like basis , were down nearly 10 per cent , with operating losses of £5.2m . |
| 2 | ICI 's results looked worse still after taking into account its restructuring and disposals ; indicating that underlying profits were down almost 30 per cent . |
| 3 | But turnover in the smaller service division fell 8 per cent and profits were down almost 30 per cent to £6.18 million , reflecting more sluggish demand for spares and service . |
| 4 | In the event , tourist arrivals in January-March 1991 were down only 3 per cent compared with the same period in 1990 . |
| 5 | Even before the 1977 Act , computer programs were not generally patentable per se , but there have been cases , both in the United Kingdom and in the United States , where computer programs have been granted patents indirectly , usually as being part of a piece of machinery or an industrial process . |
| 6 | According to an index of advanced bookings , European hotel bookings for April were up nearly 34 per cent on the same month last year . |
| 7 | Unemployment continued to fall and was constantly below one per cent in 1961–6 . |
| 8 | In the first seven months of 1990 productivity was down nearly 10 per cent compared with the same period of 1989 ; 37,000 people were unemployed ; and retail prices had increased dramatically ( according to figures published on Aug. 18 the cost of living index had risen by 108 per cent between May and July alone ) . |
| 9 | In spite of the recession , reduced profits from property sales and a 50 per cent rise in interest charges to £3.5 million profit before exceptionals was down only 9 per cent to £22.1 million , of which £11.8 million came in the first half . |
| 10 | At first , registration of births was only about 95 per cent complete . |
| 11 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 12 | Although their population was only about 5 per cent of the total of rural Wales , some districts fared relatively worse than others , particularly in Powys ( Brecknock , Montgomery and Radnor ) and parts of West Wales ( Preseli and south Pembrokeshire ) . |
| 13 | In France , Italy and the USA , the decline was only about 2 per cent . |
| 14 | Its share of ‘ small systems ’ was only about 15 per cent , but due to grow . |
| 15 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 16 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |
| 17 | Voter turnout was only around 42 per cent , however . |
| 18 | At £2,077 million it was just over 26 per cent up on April , and 52 per cent up on the corresponding month in 1992 . |
| 19 | In 1424–25 its share of these was just over 46 per cent of the national total , in 1474–75 ( though perhaps exaggerated by the absence of the Bristol and Newcastle returns ) nearly 72 per cent and in 1524–25 81.75 per cent . |
| 20 | This was just over 50 per cent above February 1990 , and five per cent more than in January . |
| 21 | For comparison , the figure for the USA in 1970 in terms of net output was just under 35 per cent [ Hannah and Kay , 1977 ; Hart and Clarke , 1980 ] . |
| 22 | The turnout was just under 50 per cent . |
| 23 | The average expectation of interest rates under the Tories was just below 10 per cent , while under Labour rates are expected to rise to 11.6 per cent . |
| 24 | Between 1932 and 1939 when the bank rate was 2 per cent , a building society 's advance was normally around 80 per cent of the value of the house spread over fifteen to twenty years at 4 to 6 per cent interest . |
| 25 | But the industry 's share of total Scottish manufacturing employment was still nearly 13 per cent . |
| 26 | Despite inflation and Schiller 's resignation , West Germany 's economic performance was far better than her Western partners , and growth was still over 3 per cent . |
| 27 | But underlying growth in profits was probably about 30 per cent . |
| 28 | It was also over 50 per cent more than that laid down in codes for the relief of famine as a basic subsistence diet ( Kynch 1989 ) . |
| 29 | Our average daily sale of 532,370 from May to October was up almost 13 per cent on the same period for last year . |
| 30 | Polls in 1963 confirmed that in American eyes Britain was still the most dependable ally , but Gallup in July also recorded that West Germany ( 58 per cent ) was now only 5 per cent behind Britain . |