Example sentences of "a [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | An optional pension scheme providing a 4.5 per cent non-superannuable supplement is available . |
| 2 | Other statistics from the survey showed that the number of employees in the sector has grown by one per cent and the total wages bill of £628 million was a 4.5 per cent increase . |
| 3 | World Bank statistics reported a 4.5 per cent growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) for the region in 1988 ; this rate was largely attributable to good agricultural output . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The CAA estimates that a fifty per cent increase in AOC charges would cost the operator of a single Learjet completing 1,000 hours annually an additional £660 . |
| 6 | The population of England and Wales was undergoing a further massive increase — nothing short of a fifty per cent rise in the years from 1801 to 1831 — and the effects of the recent Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions hardly needed a post-war depression to make matters even worse for the poor . |
| 7 | Academic staff at the museums will be paid the maximum wages for civil servants plus a fifty per cent supplement . |
| 8 | We will also offer a photocopying service , er at a fifty per cent reduction . |
| 9 | This fact probably has over a fifty per cent accuracy . |
| 10 | Mr Maurice Saatchi who now gets three hundred and ten thousand pounds a year compared with six hundred thousand pounds a year two years ago replied I 'm quite satisfied that involuntary taking a fifty per cent pay cut I have done the right thing . |
| 11 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 12 | Dow announced a 32 per cent fall in net profits in 1991 , to $935m , including a non-taxable gain of $213m for the initial public sale of Destec Energy stock , but this was offset by a $370m special charge . |
| 13 | These included a value added tax of 28 per cent , a 32 per cent profit tax , and a 45 per cent tax on the profits of commodity brokers . |
| 14 | A sustainable water supply would require a 32 per cent cut in consumption . |
| 15 | The workforce at France 's most successful car manufacturer has rejected an earlier management offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise and , in the face of what is widely seen here as management intransigence , the government reluctantly got involved in the private sector dispute yesterday evening , announcing that it would appoint an official conciliator . |
| 16 | Last weekend the Yorkshire Building Society announced a 1.5 per cent rise to 15 per cent in the wake of the one-point rise in base rates . |
| 17 | Nurses , teachers , the police and local authority employees will be among those asked to make do with a 1.5 per cent increase in 1993 . |
| 18 | Women from manual origins have about a 1.5 per cent chance of a top occupation , though 10 per cent go into lower professional jobs ; 48 per cent enter office work . |
| 19 | However , on March 17 , 1990 , shortly after the appointment of a new Bank of Thailand governor [ see below ] , a 1.5 per cent increase in the maximum commercial bank lending rate , from 15 to 16.5 per cent , was introduced . |
| 20 | The report predicted a 1.5 per cent growth rate for 1991 , as compared with 2.8 per cent in 1990 and with initial government expectations of 2.0-2.7 per cent . |
| 21 | These sharp gains were dampened by a 1.5 per cent decline in prices in both Germany and France and a 2.7 per cent fall in Italy . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |
| 23 | Health union negotiators rejected a 1.5 per cent pay award for 600,000 nurses , midwives and health visitors as totally unacceptable , refusing to accept the below-inflation increase recommended by the professions ' pay review body . |
| 24 | Public sector workers were also facing a 1.5 per cent pay rise imposed by central government . |
| 25 | Between the initiation of the Chilean price index in December 1978 and April 1983 , the index registered a 157.5 per cent increase for low-income families and a 142.7 per cent increase for higher income groups . |
| 26 | Scottish manufacturing and construction companies showed a 2.3 per cent increase in the fourth quarter over the previous three months , according to provisional Government output figures excluding oil and gas . |
| 27 | February 's inflation rate showed a 2.3 per cent monthly increase ( the biggest monthly rise for four years ) , representing an annualized rate for early 1990 of just over 13 per cent , substantially above the budget target . |
| 28 | I note that the biggest single beneficiary is Scottish Opera with a 2.3 per cent increase for the coming year ; likewise , Scottish Ballet attracts the same increase . |
| 29 | Now these companies have large grants already and a 2.3 per cent increase is a very large sum of money compared with , for example , a small theatre whose grant is half this increase and whose subsidy has been frozen for 1993/94 . |
| 30 | Last October , an interim dividend of 6.75p , payable in three equal instalments , was declared — a 2.3 per cent rise on the previous year 's 6.6p interim . |