Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public borrowing rose to nearly 10 per cent of national income — equivalent to £55,000 million today . |
| 2 | While expenditure was reduced after this , by the 1960s , with the entry of the United States into the Vietnam conflict , it rose to around 10 per cent of GDP once more . |
| 3 | At the turn of the century government expenditure as a proportion of G N P amounted to roughly 10 per cent ; by 1970 this figure had reached over 40 per cent . |
| 4 | The late Victorian and Edwardian period offered low taxes , cheap servant labour , and reasonable returns of capital whilst the retail price index fell by around 10 per cent between the wars . |
| 5 | This group benefited most from the increasing absorption of men into the Army and Navy which peaked at around 10 per cent of the adult male labour force , nullifying the effect of population increase on the labour market . |