Example sentences of "to [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 2 | Como International , the Robert Holmes a Court / Elf Aquataine company , has lowered its stake to below 5 per cent . |
| 3 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 4 | Martinho 's resignation was seen as representing the development of a long-term crisis within a party which had failed to find a suitable replacement for its original leader and whose popular support had been reduced to below 5 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | It was hoped to reduce inflation , which was still running at over 6 per cent a year , to below 5 per cent , and to enforce a 4.5 per cent ceiling on public-sector wage increases . |
| 6 | On those occasions when he had felt the need to demonstrate his power to management , he would create an instant departmental dispute which always had the immediate effect of lowering that day 's efficiency to below fifty per cent . |
| 7 | The Guinness bid was subsequently revamped to include the sale of a small number of minor whisky brands , which was designed to reduce the combined market share of Guinness and Distillers to below 25 per cent . |
| 8 | During these times the temperature may rise to as much as 40°C ( 104°F ) and the humidity drop to below ten per cent . |
| 9 | Annual industrial capital values growth also turned negative again after a fall of 1.1 per cent in April , pushing the total return to below ten per cent . |
| 10 | While the rate of inflation had fallen from 10.9 per cent in September-October 1990 to below 9 per cent in February 1991 , unemployment in the United Kingdom ( including Northern Ireland ) had risen ( seasonally adjusted ) from around 5.7 per cent in the first half of 1990 to 6.0 per cent by October and to 7.0 per cent by February 1991 ; in the last quarter of 1990 the index of industrial production was about 3@1/2 per cent down on the figure a year earlier and gross domestic product at constant 1985 factor prices about 1@1/2 per cent lower . |
| 11 | The Big Three US carmakers , who controlled more than 85 per cent of the luxury market 10 years ago , saw their share drop to below 50 per cent last year . |
| 12 | According to the government 's privatization strategy , by 1994 the proportion of state assets should be reduced to below 50 per cent , with foreign ownership reaching 25 per cent . |
| 13 | Gross national product ( GNP ) grew by an average of just under 5 per cent in 1989 and 1990 , while the annual rate of inflation fell to below 3 per cent by the end of 1990 . |
| 14 | By early 1981 our support had fallen to below 30 per cent and as the months went by it plummeted even further to reach 23 per cent at the end of the year . |
| 15 | The Christian Democrats — 34.3 per cent last time — are expecting a small loss , but a drop to below 30 per cent would be seen as disaster . |
| 16 | Their share of the national vote dropped more than five per cent to below 30 per cent for the first time . |
| 17 | Although government figures show adult illiteracy rates continuing to fall to below 30 per cent , the real rates are thought to be far higher than this . |
| 18 | Daresbury 's work for industry , which amounts to only 5 per cent of its activities , could double within a year , Professor Leadbetter said . |
| 19 | Young adults ( aged 16–29 ) amount to only 5 per cent of the disabled population if everyone is included , a little more than that among the most severely impaired . |
| 20 | Some 22 per cent of councillors had a degree or equivalent qualification compared to only 5 per cent of the general population . |
| 21 | The number of voters citing defence as the main issue they wished to see discussed by the parties rose from 3 per cent at the start of the campaign to only 11 per cent in the third week and then stabilized at that level . |
| 22 | And in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten , by far the largest ‘ bourgeois ’ newspaper in the Munich area but also with much wider circulation , the 44 per cent of May and June 1940 had dropped by June and July 1941 to 29 per cent , reached 15 per cent for the period October to December 1941 , and sank to only 7 per cent by October and November 1942 . |
| 23 | As with rates , the rebates will be available for up to only 80 per cent of the community charge . |
| 24 | Mr Jan Sekera , director of Prague 's Stredoceska Galerie , one of the city 's leading contemporary galleries , said of the new tax law , ‘ I 'm afraid that there will be no great movement as the relief is limited to only two per cent . |
| 25 | ( Trade with OECD countries amounts to only 1.6 per cent . ) |
| 26 | In April 1987 supplementary benefit for the same family equalled 43 per cent of average earnings , and in April 1988 the level of income support available to this family amounted to only 37.3 per cent of earnings . |
| 27 | First , they see various loan options where the APR dropped from 49 per cent for six-month repayment periods to only 10 per cent for 36-month periods . |
| 28 | The racist movement polled 61 per cent in the Dreux byelection on Sunday , compared to only 16 per cent a year ago . |
| 29 | Average income tax actually paid rises from 4 per cent of the income of the poorest to only 16 per cent of the top fifth in the income range . |
| 30 | For example , deaths of members of the security forces were 54 per cent of total fatalities in 1985 , compared to only 18 per cent in 1976 . |