Example sentences of "[was/were] over [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | German industry had laid the basis for its later success in producing steel , chemicals and electrical goods , trade was now in surplus and growth rates were over eight per cent per annum . |
| 2 | Total Waterford Crystal US sales were over 10 per cent up on 1991 . |
| 3 | By 1987 , the travel-to-work areas encompassing the seven major conurbations held more than 850,000 registered unemployed and , with the exception of Greater London , average unemployment rates were over 15 per cent ( DE , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | In other words , capital inflows have averaged 31 per cent of the trade and commerce flows of the UK ; in 1979 and 1986 however , they were over 50 per cent . |
| 5 | In fact money supply grew rapidly and by 1989 inflation was over 8 per cent . |
| 6 | The turnout was over 80 per cent of the around 1,500,000 electorate . |
| 7 | The turnout in both republics was over 80 per cent of eligible voters [ see p. 38078 ] . |
| 8 | Thanks to deflationary measures , Bonn did not experience the large-scale trade deficits and inflation of other Western countries , but unemployment rose to 4.7 per cent in 1975 and inflation was over 5 per cent , a poor performance when compared to the past . |
| 9 | Even though the prices of many of the goods which were used in constructing the retail price index were subject to government control , the official consumer price index increased between January 1970 and September 1973 by 119 per cent and , using this same index , the official rate of inflation in the fourth quarter of 1973 was over 500 per cent . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The turnout for the referendum , postponed on several occasions [ see pp. 38752-53 ] , was over 70 per cent . |
| 12 | A 1975/6 random daytime survey for the Department of the Environment revealed that over 7 per cent of the tapwater in England exceeded the EC limit while in Scotland the figure was over 34 per cent . |
| 13 | By 1988 it was over 20 per cent . |
| 14 | Tennant and Andrews ( 1978 ) used their Australian sample to calculate that if social support and a person 's coping skills were poor , and their stress scores high , then their risk of neurosis was over 40 per cent . |
| 15 | Despite registering a minus year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 1989 , the inflation rate was over 2.5 per cent by the third quarter . |
| 16 | From de Valera 's point of view — and the majority of the nation and its politicians would have concurred — the fact that the Free State was over 90 per cent catholic meant that its moral and social outlook would reflect catholic beliefs . |
| 17 | ‘ What these figures mean is that less than one third of the Scottish licence fees were spent here that year , while the comparable figure for England was over 90 per cent , ’ said one disgruntled producer . |
| 18 | Furthermore , energy was over 30 per cent cheaper in the South than in the northeast in 1980 , according to Agnew ( 1987b , p. 174 ) , who draws on Bensel 's ( 1984 ) work , which combines the energy and unionization advantages of the South , to illustrate the growing gap in growth rates over the post-war decades between , on the one hand , the energy-rich/right-to-work States and , on the other , the energy-disadvantaged ( high cost , mostly imported ) and heavily-unionized . |