Example sentences of "of [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of the intifada to the Israeli economy up to March 1989 , according to the Labour Party , was put at US$750,000,000 , effectively wiping out Israel 's economic growth in 1988 of 2.3 per cent . |
| 2 | The government also forecast GNP growth of 2.5 per cent in 1993 ( up from 1.3 per cent ) , and inflation of 2.3 per cent ( the same as predicted for 1992 ) . |
| 3 | Scottish Opera , the biggest single beneficiary , receives £4,460,000 , a rise of 2.3 per cent . |
| 4 | Scottish Ballet gets £1.904 million , also an increase of 2.3 per cent . |
| 5 | Municipal sewage works have used such methods to treat sewage since the early 1900s and the biogas produced , which consists on average of 70 per cent methane and 30 per cent carbon dioxide ( Hawkes and Hawkes 1987 ) , can be used to power the digestion plant itself . |
| 6 | When Harold Wilson took Labour to power with 48 per cent of the national vote in 1966 , he commanded the support of 70 per cent of manual workers and their families . |
| 7 | ( This is equivalent to some 200 TVRs , for a coverage of 70 per cent and , therefore , an OTS frequency of 2.9 , since OTS is equal to TVRs divided by coverage . ) |
| 8 | ‘ Particulars of Offence : [ The respondent ] on 17 September 1990 dishonestly and with a view to gain for himself or another , or with intent to cause loss to another , falsified a document required for an accounting purpose , namely , a computer generated sales invoice , by making an entry therein which was or may have been misleading , false or deceptive in a material particular in that it purported to show that a discount of 70 per cent . |
| 9 | The figure of 70 per cent left sided speech in non-dextrals accords reasonably well with Levy 's estimate of 63 per cent derived from the lesion data . |
| 10 | It should be noted , however , that the figure of 70 per cent applies only to one particular ( and rather loose ) criterion of non-right handedness . |
| 11 | The European Community has set a target to reduce landfill use from its present rate of 70 per cent to 10 per cent by the beginning of the next century . |
| 12 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the West German coalition decided on April 23 to offer the East German government a 1:1 conversion rate for savings up to 4,000 Marks and for wages and pensions ( which latter would also be raised , from less than 50 per cent of wages to the West German level of 70 per cent ) . |
| 14 | The Russian Federation government proposed the privatization of 70 per cent of the republic 's property and assets in a plan announced by Deputy Premier Mikhail Maley on 2 June . |
| 15 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |
| 16 | A major problem for LTOM is that it derives only 30 per cent of its turnover from retail investors unlike the average of 70 per cent achieved at other pure options exchanges such as the CBOE and the EOE . |
| 17 | Its purchase in early 1991 was followed later in the year by the acquisition of 70 per cent of Union Cervecera , Spain 's sixth largest brewer . |
| 18 | Instead , it is arguing for cuts of 70 per cent . |
| 19 | Daily devaluations of the new cruzado were averaging 3.4 per cent in February , while inflation reached a monthly rate of 56.1 per cent in January 1990 and 73 per cent in February . |
| 20 | It was reported that BB was the basis of forty-seven per cent of French conversation — how this was computed is not easy to see but people said such things . |
| 21 | Almost half a million meals were served last year , an increase of forty-seven per cent . |
| 22 | Fluctuations occurred throughout the year : the deficit in May was $10,200 million , an increase of 23.6 per cent over April due to an increase in imports of oil and industrial equipment and to the effect on exports of the rise in value of the dollar ; in July and September the deficits fell to a five-year low due to a decline in the purchase of foreign machinery and consumer goods , and to an increase in aircraft exports . |
| 23 | These included increases of 23.6 per cent on development projects , 78 per cent on the transmigration ( internal resettlement ) scheme , 200 per cent on spending on the bureaucracy and an 87 per cent increase in the President 's own fund for rural development . |
| 24 | Second , the figure of 97 per cent of workplaces with fewer than 20 people , is , in itself , meaningless . |
| 25 | Mr Foster said he thought that the Durham Service 's rate of 97 per cent of call-outs having an arrival time of less than 19 minutes was ‘ creditable ’ . |
| 26 | An increase of 51.7 per cent was forecast in the state development budget owing to increased foreign assistance contributions and project loans . |
| 27 | A national referendum held on June 9 and 10 resulted in an unexpectedly large majority of 95.6 per cent in favour of a package of reforms to the voting procedure for parliamentary elections . |
| 28 | A turnout of 99.5 per cent was reported by the ITAR-TASS news agency in elections held from Nov. 24 to Dec. 7 for 50 of the 60 members of the Khalk Maslakhaty ( People 's Council ) , set up as the supreme body of state power under the Turkmen Constitution adopted in May , and comprising one member from each electoral district . |
| 29 | After 10 years during which the lira had enjoyed a fluctuation band of 6 per cent against its central rate within the European monetary system ( EMS ) , the government decided on Jan. 5 , 1990 , to adopt for the lira the narrower band of 2.25 per cent which applied to all member currencies except the Spanish peseta [ see also pp. 36741 ; 37196 ] . |
| 30 | Unadjusted unemployment increased by 49,657 to 2,864,069 in November , a rate of 10.1 per cent . |