Example sentences of "have be [adv] [num] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of imports has been over 11 per cent p.a. whereas export growth has only been 7.7 per cent p.a. , and if one considers exports and imports of goods other than oil products then the figures are 13 per cent p.a. import growth and 9 per cent p.a. export growth . |
| 2 | John Atkins at broker UBS Phillips & Drew says : ‘ The decline in property shares since November 1988 relative to the All Share Index has been around 60 per cent . |
| 3 | The Newcastle 's cap and collar mortgage , where the interest can not rise about 10.75 per cent or fall below 9.5 per cent for a full seven years is a good bet , especially when you consider that over the last 10 years , the average interest rate has been around 12 per cent . |
| 4 | Additional imports generated may have been around 15 per cent for the United Kingdom , rather less for the EEC but a good deal more for the United States . |
| 5 | If last year 's consumer boom had not been allowed to boil over , our nine-year growth rate would have been below two per cent . |
| 6 | The East India Company 's nominal capital of £740,000 would have been about 2 per cent of the national income , though in fact only half of it was paid up until calls for fresh capital had to be made in the 1690s . |
| 7 | In local elections held on June 7-8 in 341 municipalities throughout the country the two partners in the ruling coalition , the True Path Party ( DYP ) and the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP ) , won 35 and 23 per cent of the vote respectively ( their combined total having been only 47 per cent in the October 1992 general election ) . |
| 8 | We do not know what interest rates were in Israel but we do know that the annual rate of interest in the ancient Near East was very high : in Babylonia and Assyria it was 20–25 per cent for money loans , 33 per cent for loans in kind and frequently more ; in Upper Mesopotamia and Elam rates were higher , reaching 50 per cent for money loans ; in the Ptolemaic period in Egypt rates seem to have been around 12 per cent . |
| 9 | According to the Ministry of the Interior the abstention rate in Cairo had been over 70 per cent whereas in some rural areas the turnout had been 70 per cent . |
| 10 | He also disclosed that the annual inflation rate , which had been over 400 per cent before his government took office , had been reduced to 78 per cent . |
| 11 | In the preceding weeks , the figure of those mentioning the Führer in death-announcements in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten had been around 4 per cent . |
| 12 | The move was designed to boost exports to Western markets in order to combat inflation , which had been around 34 per cent in 1990 and was projected at up to 40 per cent in 1991 . |
| 13 | Fresh elections were due on April 7 in six constituencies where turnout on Feb. 24 had been below 50 per cent ( the average turnout was over 71 per cent ) , and were also awaited in two constituencies where a run-off on March 4 had failed to produce a winner . |
| 14 | Nationally , calls for January this year have been over 50 per cent . |
| 15 | We have decided on the cuts as a result of strong competition from Mercury , whose prices until now have been around 20 per cent lower than ours . ’ |
| 16 | Erm we have taken various steps immediately , one is that the vandalism that taking place over the erm we have immediately re-secured , I have to say there 's been about fifty erm tickets out to re-secure those those , that site over the summer but they have been re-secured and tomorrow morning there will be the commencement of bricking up of the doors and windows of the ground floor of block D , block . |