Example sentences of "at over [num] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 1986 , education budgets were sustained at over 10 per cent of government expenditure , but hyper-inflation , currency devaluation and overall budget cutbacks have eaten into the real amounts of money involved . |
| 2 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |
| 3 | By May 1989 inflation at over 8 per cent was at the same level as at the 1979 general election and unemployment , though falling , was higher than in 1979 . |
| 4 | Ostensibly agriculture has a fine record — between 1961 and 1973 labour productivity bounded along at over 7 per cent per annum , though overall growth of output at just under 3 per cent was less impressive [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 5 | Substantial growth at over six per cent is projected for 1993 and 1994 . |
| 6 | Unemployment peaked at over two per cent in 1967 , then fell off , and Germany continued to absorb up to two million ‘ guest ’ workers from Turkey , Yugoslavia and elsewhere . |
| 7 | In the early 1980s , it peaked at over 47 per cent . |
| 8 | Sizewell B , with enhanced diversity in control and monitoring systems , will certainly produce at over 85 per cent load factor . |
| 9 | Unemployment stood at over ten per cent , German trade was in deficit , an IMF loan was obtained , there was still a serious housing shortage and over one-third of government spending had to go to covering Allied occupation costs . |
| 10 | Table 16–1 shows that government spending , and the taxation that finances it , are now running at over 40 per cent of national income . |
| 11 | As early as the midsummer of 1992 , the Morgensavisen Jyllands Posten had put the anti-Maastricht vote at over 60 per cent . |
| 12 | In early April it was reported locally that the government , as part of a proposed 15-point economic programme , was seeking to stabilize the economy without " shocks " , and to promote wide-ranging sectoral agreements to curb inflation ( still running at over 20 per cent a month ) while stimulating production and preserving jobs . |
| 13 | I think you have to look after people both at work and when they retire and we inflation-proofed our pension scheme during the whole of that pretty dreadful time when inflation was running at over twenty per cent . |
| 14 | We have already seen that real wage costs rose roughly in line with productivity at over 3 per cent a year — an extremely rapid rate by historical standards . |
| 15 | Although some farmers are adopting more intensive systems of production this is not yet at a fast enough rate to generate the large increases in marketed output necessary to feed the towns , where the population is growing at over 6 per cent per year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The rural population is growing at over 2 per cent per year and densities are increasing . |
| 18 | In the mid-1970s , public spending peaked at over 49 per cent of our gross national product . |