Example sentences of "[prep] over [num] per cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Treasury intends to claw back £2.8 billion there will have to be a total saving of over 7 per cent on these pensions and benefits . |
| 2 | An increase of over 100 per cent in the price of maize meal on June 19 , as part of an economic recovery programme [ see pp. 37142-43 ; 37559 ] , provoked widespread discontent which culminated in violence after a demonstration by some 2,000 students in Lusaka on June 25 . |
| 3 | On March 18 the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of social policy , Aleksandr Shokhin , announced a rise of over 100 per cent in the minimum wage from April , and a near doubling of pension rates . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | However , a change would be subject to the agreement of over 70 per cent of parents . |
| 6 | Petrol rationing of over 80 per cent during the smog season from May to October was suggested ! |
| 7 | Called Shin-Rengo ( the Japan Trade Union Confederation ) it claimed membership of over 80 per cent of the country 's organized labour . |
| 8 | Participation of over 80 per cent of the workforce was reported in some areas , in the first general strike in Italy since May 1989 . |
| 9 | In a turnout of over 80 per cent of the 29,900,000 registered voters , the DYP won 27 per cent and secured 178 seats in the 450-seat Grand National Assembly , while the ANAP won 24 per cent but saw its share of seats fall from 275 to 115 . |
| 10 | The agreement completed the rescheduling of over 80 per cent of Nigeria 's external debt to 16 participating countries of the " Paris Club " — a total of US$2,142,000 million . |
| 11 | There was a response rate of over 80 per cent from the staff . |
| 12 | However , the process is by no means uniform and Table 5.3 shows that a small number of towns in the rural districts actually lost population between 1971 and 1981 , although the dominant trend was increases of over 10 per cent in both of the rural categories at the foot of the table . |
| 13 | As compared with regional showings in the GDR general election on March 13 , 1990 [ see pp. 37300-03 ] , the CDU share of the vote overall went up , due to an increase of over 10 per cent in support in Saxony ( where support for the DSU , however , dropped by a corresponding amount ) . |
| 14 | This represents an improvement of over 50 per cent on unit costs since 1989 . |
| 15 | The Metropolitan Police are expected to cost £1,082.391 million in 1989/90 — an increase of over 50 per cent in real terms since 1977/8 . |
| 16 | Since the average rate of interest paid on the deposits was about 9 per cent ( Mates 1986 ) , the banks would have needed to charge an average interest rate on their counterpart dinar loans of over 50 per cent in order to cover themselves . |
| 17 | The economy was undergoing its worst recession since 1945 and had been hit in particular by a fall of over 50 per cent in trade with the Soviet Union in the first three months of 1991 , and by a low dollar and over-valued Finnish markka , which seriously affected the forest industry . |
| 18 | No borough showed a drop of over 50 per cent in the numbers paying and only four over 45 per cent , whereas two counties showed one of over 60 per cent , four more of between 50 and 60 per cent and one more of over 45 per cent . |
| 19 | The total in 1991 had been 256,112 asylum applicants , chiefly from Yugoslavia , Romania and Turkey ( an increase of over 30 per cent on the 1990 figure of 193,063 ) , and 221,995 ethnic Germans . |
| 20 | In the Lake District too , Clark ( 1982a , 1982b ) cites an estimate of 11 per cent of stock being in use as second homes in the mid-1970s , with figures of over 30 per cent in some parishes . |
| 21 | Throughout large areas of geologically sensitive terrain in eastern North America , lakes have lost an average of over 40 per cent of their original alkalinity . |
| 22 | The new system is an IBM ES/9000–820 which gives a boost of over 40 per cent in processing capacity over the previous machine . |
| 23 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
| 24 | A referendum in the Ukraine on 1 December , however , resulted in a majority of over 90 per cent in favour of a fully independent status , and this appears to have convinced Yel'tsin that it would be unprofitable to pursue the goal of political union any further . |
| 25 | In London , for instance , the most severely affected boroughs like Hackney and Tower Hamlets , with male unemployment rates of over 28 per cent in 1986 , had already seen sharp rises in joblessness between 1971 and 1981 , which had driven more people to work outside the boroughs of residence and brought a marked fall in the numbers of women in paid work ( Townsend el al. , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Young points out that this means the victimisation of over 20 per cent of respondents is still unknown and that such a large proportion could easily skew findings from the surveys . |
| 28 | Some 18 per cent of managing directors secured pay increases of over 20 per cent in 1988-89 , compared with only 8 per cent of executives below board level . |
| 29 | Since only a part of the purchase price has to be put down now , this represents a likely return on capital of over 20 per cent in the first year . |
| 30 | Since only a part of the purchase price has to be put down now , this represents a likely return on capital of over 20 per cent in the first year . |