Example sentences of "target of [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile West Germany , Denmark , the Netherlands , France and Belgium have to reach progressive reduction targets of 30 per cent , 60 per cent and 70 per cent , even though the UK 's total emissions are already much higher and , unlike countries such as West Germany , it had invested in no controls to date . |
| 2 | Jiang set annual growth targets of 8-9 per cent for the 1991-95 period , significantly less than the double-digit expansion rates advocated by Deng , but greater than the 6 per cent target advanced by Premier Li Peng in his March 1992 government work report [ see pp. 38861-62 ] . |
| 3 | In a series of interviews on June 12 the new Treasurer , John Kerin , stated his commitment to his predecessor 's tight budgetary policies , and reaffirmed the government 's inflation target of 4 per cent for 1991/92 . |
| 4 | It came on a day of positive signs for the British economy , with the Bank of England saying it thought inflation would remain below the Government 's target of 4 per cent for the next two years , and cautious indications of a pick-up in high street spending . |
| 5 | Each department was set a minimum target of 52 per cent women and 10 per cent ethnic minorities . |
| 6 | The wage freeze was part of a campaign to bring down inflation from 2,000-2,500 per cent to a target of 13 per cent . |
| 7 | As we have seen the DES in Circular 11/77 contended that the Haycocks target of 5 per cent release of further education staff for this purpose was too optimistic and that 3 per cent was more realistic . |
| 8 | In the event , some RACs adopted the higher target of 5 per cent while others did not think it possible to achieve even 3 per cent within existing resources . |
| 9 | Aziz also announced that the 1991/92 deficit had overshot its target of 4.6 per cent of GDP and would be closer to 6.1 per cent . |
| 10 | What is proposed here is a more modest target of 55 per cent of average earnings of all workers , both male and female rates combined in that industry . |
| 11 | It sets a target of 80 per cent of plastics and paper , and 90 per cent of glass , tin and aluminium , to be recycled by 1 July 1995 . |
| 12 | The December figure brought the annual average for 1989 up to 10.6 per cent , exceeding the government 's target of 8 per cent . |
| 13 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 14 | Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent . |
| 15 | The Belgian presidency of the Community suggested a compromise which would allow recovery of waste through incineration , and the setting of an overall target of 40 per cent for the recovery of all forms of waste . |
| 16 | Chevenement said last month that preliminary estimates for 1982 science spending show that the percentage of GDP spent on R&D has already risen to 2.1 per cent , in line with the 1985 target of 2.5 per cent . |
| 17 | But a spokesman for Fabius last week said that he would do his best to make sure that Mitterrand 's target of 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product to be spent on research by 1985 will be met . |
| 18 | Britain 's aid budget has fallen to 0.32 per cent of gross national product , less than half UN 's target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 19 | The Labour government will aim to meet the United Nations aid target of 0.7 per cent of GNP within five years — the lifetime of a full Parliament . |
| 20 | It criticised the OECD countries for failing to meet the United Nations ' foreign aid target of 0.7 per cent of their GNPs . |
| 21 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 22 | In 1990 , the hon. Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) , who leads for Labour on overseas development , said : ’ I want to see Britain reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 23 | The right hon. Member for Gorton told the Labour party conference : ’ Over our first Parliament we shall increase Britain 's aid budget to the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 24 | These emphasised ( i ) urgent attention to the external debt problems of the less developed countries ( LDCs ) ; ( ii ) co-ordination of macro-economic policies to take full account of the interests of all countries ; ( iii ) national action and international support to prevent marginalization of the LDCs ; ( iv ) provision of increased resources to multilateral financial institutions to support development , facilitate structural reforms and alleviate the adverse social consequences of such reforms ; ( v ) promotion of an open multilateral trading system and discouragement of trends to unilateral and bilateral action ; ( vi ) encouragement for developed countries to increase the quantity and quality of aid and implement the agreed target of 0.7 per cent of GNP in official development assistance , with 0.15 per cent to the LDCs ; and ( vii ) reduction of military expenditures and promotion of environmentally sustainable development . |
| 25 | Release of this information is a key step in monitoring progress towards the Group 's target of 50 per cent waste reduction by 1995 . |
| 26 | The Circular considered that it should be possible to introduce the Report 's recommendations for induction training gradually and also to make some progress towards in-service training , but with a target of 3 per cent of staff released at any one time , rather than the recommended 5 per cent . |
| 27 | Will he acknowledge that Government Departments have not even come near their own target of 3 per cent . |
| 28 | NATO Defence Ministers attended a meeting in Brussels of the Defence Planning Committee on May 22-23 and formally abandoned their 13-year-old target of 3 per cent real annual increases in national defence budgets [ see p. 36750 ] . |
| 29 | The International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine says that its target of 90 per cent reduction of waste from industry and water treatment plants has to all intents and purposes been met . |
| 30 | Paragraph 6.28 recommended an increase in ‘ the rate of efficiency savings from the present target of 0.5 per cent year over year , to say 1.0 per cent ’ . |