Example sentences of "now [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The index , at 1,834.83 , is now 138 per cent up since the market was opened to foreign buyers on 9 August . |
| 2 | Mortgage rates are still at around 9.25 per cent , which is now 2.25 per cent above the bank base rate . |
| 3 | The committee 's conclusion is that the proportion of world energy consumption supplied by renewables , now 2 per cent , could rise to 4 per cent by 2020 : a trebling of the amount of energy supplied by renewables . |
| 4 | It has attracted inward investment , there are new factories and jobs , and unemployment is now 22 per cent . |
| 5 | A report just published shows there are now forty per cent more birds than there were ten years ago . |
| 6 | The British Coal Corporation has achieved impressive improvements in productivity , which is now 105 per cent . |
| 7 | Through the 1980s , there was an extended period when school rolls fell back and there are now 30 per cent fewer pupils now than there were . |
| 8 | Now 30 per cent of its junior management are women , although that figure falls away to a paltry 1 per cent at the highest levels . |
| 9 | Sales for the first nine months of the year , at 1,698,221 , are now 11.52 per cent behind the same period last year . |
| 10 | If he was offered a 16-week repayment period for instance , instead of the 15-week ones , with £1.99 instalments ( ‘ Gosh , that 's under £2 a week ! ’ ) , he might be frankly incredulous when told that the rate of charge , instead of 6.6 per cent with the over-£2 instalments , was now 44.4 per cent . |
| 11 | Research ( ’ soft ’ ) money represents now 45 per cent of the LSHTM 's total income and expenditure of about £3.4 million . |
| 12 | The highest rate of individual tax was now 45 per cent , payable above a threshold of earning of K36,000 per year ( increased from K24,000 ) . |
| 13 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 14 | Menswear at Savacentre is now 100 per cent own label , and own label accounts for 60 per cent of ladieswear . |
| 15 | when the right hon. Member for Huntingdon ( Mr. Major ) became Chancellor , and that it is now 7.3 per cent ? |
| 16 | Societies blame a combination of falling interest — basic rates are now 8.5 per cent — and a drive among consumers to pay off credit cards for the squeeze on funds . |
| 17 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 18 | No party even hinted at reintroducing the Acts , and that sector is now 5 per cent . |
| 19 | In 1939 the Poles published figures showing that their part of Pomerania was now 91 per cent Polish . |
| 20 | The quality buildings will be let — Broadgate is now 95 per cent leased — but slowly developers will realise they have to convert the bad space which I can only say is a lot of classified DIY . ’ |
| 21 | The real reason is that competition between the various issuers has forced down the charges levied on the retailers — once as high as 3 to 5 per cent , down to an average of 2.2 per cent in 1988 and now 1.7 per cent and falling . |
| 22 | There are now 36 per cent of weddings in that category . |
| 23 | On that basis the number waiting over 12 months is now 27 per cent . |
| 24 | Employment among lone mothers ( now 42 per cent ) has fallen from a peak of 49 per cent in 1979–81 although it is now higher than the low of 39 per cent in 1983–85 . |
| 25 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Strabane is now five per cent more than this time last year , according to the latest Government statistics . |
| 26 | By now 40 per cent of manufacturing industry , 50 per cent of construction industry and 60 per cent of retail trade and services will have been turned into joint-stock companies , privatized or leased . |
| 27 | Through a combination of capital projects and employee involvement in looking for improvements , the waste [ as defined under SARA title 111 ] produced by the site is now 40 per cent down on 1988 . |
| 28 | Now 98 per cent of their business is with the top exhibitors , and this means keeping up with all the new varieties being bred . |
| 29 | Fears deepened yesterday that the West German Bundesbank might lift its key lending rates by as much as one full point — a move which could prompt a rise in UK base rates , now 14 per cent . |
| 30 | Winter-to-spring ozone levels in the northern hemisphere declined by about 3 per cent a decade between 1969 and 1989 , but the acceleration in recent years means the total decline since 1969 is now 14 per cent . |