Example sentences of "by around [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the years 1956–70 , if all ( net ) US direct investment overseas had instead been invested in the United States , gross private investment there would have increased only by around 4 per cent . |
| 2 | Moreover , he says that the present level of interest rates may mean that instead of prices stagnating next year they could fall by around 10 per cent . |
| 3 | The late Victorian and Edwardian period offered low taxes , cheap servant labour , and reasonable returns of capital whilst the retail price index fell by around 10 per cent between the wars . |
| 4 | Per kWh in winter as against ½d. in summer , which might cut peak consumption by around 10 per cent . |
| 5 | It performed quite well in my network benchmarks , nosing ahead of the RSC by around 10 per cent . |
| 6 | Languages : Bulgarian ( official ) ; Turkish spoken by around 10 per cent of population . |
| 7 | Manufacturing output increased by around 10 per cent , and manufactures now accounted for about 80 per cent of all exports ( compared with about 33 per cent in 1980 ) . |
| 8 | It planned a 6 per cent increase in expenditure on public works ( in accordance with the SII deal ) , but suggested that local authorities would be encouraged to increase public works expenditure by around 10 per cent . |
| 9 | The 3M company which makes floppy disks has saved around $300 million over a decade by halving the waste it produces — boosting its net income by around five per cent . |
| 10 | Sunday congregations have fallen by around one per cent , with under-16s , in particular , deserting services . |
| 11 | Romanian Orthodoxy was professed by around 85 per cent of Romanian Christians . |
| 12 | Responses of the type 0.4 = ¼ were given by around 13 per cent of pupils to most of the questions where a decimal was presented , but 2.3 was given as ⅔ by 45 per cent of pupils . |
| 13 | In France President Mitterrand 's policy was supported by around 70 per cent of the population in early February according to opinion polls , rising to 78 per cent after Feb. 24 . |
| 14 | Mexican debt was being sold at the end of the year for 46.6 cents on the dollar , some 30 per cent more than in January , while Argentinian debt had improved by around 70 per cent to an admittedly still poor 20 cents on the dollar . |
| 15 | There were reports throughout September of violent anti-government protests in North Korea , apparently ignited by the government 's decision in July to reduce the amount of money in circulation and to devalue the won by around 70 per cent . |
| 16 | Constitutional change usually came about tenth , nominated by around 12 per cent of the electorate . |
| 17 | Despite the successive sterling crises , deflationary fiscal packages and wage restraint , real personal disposable income per head had risen by around 12 per cent from 1964 to 1970 . |
| 18 | Between 1982 and 1987 the average annual numbers of prison officers have increased by around 12 per cent per annum . |
| 19 | New house prices rose by around 50 per cent in the United Kingdom between early 1972 and early 1973 . |
| 20 | It suggests that a fine aerosol mist of sulphuric acid , produced by the combination of sulphur gases emitted by the volcano with atmospheric water vapour , is reducing by around 2 per cent the amount of sunlight reaching the earth . |
| 21 | It is clear that the basic text file has been increased by around 150 per cent in order to provide the retrieval capabilities offered by the package . |
| 22 | Although the fuel economy has improved by around 30 per cent over the past decade , there is evidence that the younger generation , in particular , feels the car is too ostentatious in today 's environment . |
| 23 | According to the results given in the Soviet central government newspaper Izvestiya after the second round of voting for the Moldavian Supreme Soviet , with all but 10 of the 380 seats filled , such dual endorsements meant that up to 80 per cent of the elected deputies were identified as communists , while both the Popular Front and Yedinstvo were reported each to be represented by around 30 per cent of deputies . |
| 24 | On the other hand Helmut Schlesinger , the vice-president of the Bundesbank , explained that under the Bundesbank proposals wages in East Germany would be increased first by around 30 per cent before the 2:1 rate was applied . |
| 25 | In the first week of July the Soviet authorities announced that in the third quarter of 1990 its oil deliveries to its European COMECON partners would be reduced by around 30 per cent . |
| 26 | Revenue was expected to rise by around 40 per cent to 1,090,460 million forint compared with 1992 , while expenditure was expected to rise by around 30 per cent to 1,275,830 million forint . |
| 27 | Professor Hoskins , basing his cost-of-living calculation on a range of local price data , not simply cereals , calculated that whereas real wages of labourers and craftsmen fell by around 30 per cent over the second half of the eighteenth century , those of most woollen workers fell by nearer 50 per cent . |
| 28 | Rainfall in the Sahel has decreased by around 30 per cent . |
| 29 | Some dinosaurs that evolved during the Permian/Triassic reduced their body mass by around 35 per cent or more , and may have had their dimensions reduced by 50 per cent . |
| 30 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |