Example sentences of "cent over [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospectus offered investors a return of either 18 per cent , 34 per cent or 45 per cent over a three-year period , depending on the accuracy of the sales projections , based on the RSGB figures , with all the appropriate caveats cautiously attached . |
| 2 | Empirical evidence on aggregate investment tends to confirm that it is indeed inversely related to the rate of interest , but most evidence suggests that the relationship is a fairly weak one — for example , M. Evans estimated ( for United States data ) that a 25 per cent fall in interest rates would cause net investment to rise by 5–10 per cent over a two-year period after a one-year lag . |
| 3 | Further options may increase the capital by up to 15 per cent over a ten-year period . |
| 4 | In the six months to 31 July 1985 the unaudited profit of the group is expected to be £9.2m , an increase of 21 per cent over the corresponding period in the previous year . |
| 5 | The average trend for the second-highest maximum one-hour ozone concentration recorded at 400 sites shows that ozone levels increased by 2 per cent over the 1979–88 period but decreased by 14 per cent over the 1980–9 period ( figure 8.8 ) . |
| 6 | The average trend for the second-highest maximum one-hour ozone concentration recorded at 400 sites shows that ozone levels increased by 2 per cent over the 1979–88 period but decreased by 14 per cent over the 1980–9 period ( figure 8.8 ) . |
| 7 | In the event , absenteeism in the body plant actually rose by over 20 per cent over the seven-year period spanning the installation of the line-out system , though this was a smaller rise than in the press and the paint plants adjacent to the body shop . |
| 8 | Even the number of craft workers has risen from 10.5 per cent to 13.9 per cent over the same period ( 1974 , 427 ) . |
| 9 | As they told MPs , they had found that 34 per cent of mothers interviewed in their survey had failed to receive any increase in their housekeeping allowance in the previous year , while prices had risen 7 per cent over the same period ( HOC , 1973 , Vol . |
| 10 | The percentage of people aged 65 and over living alone has increased from 10 per cent in 1945 to 36 per cent in 1985 , while the percentage of those living with others has decreased from 60 per cent to 20 per cent over the same period . |
| 11 | For example , Japan recorded decreases in overall stroke mortality for both men and women of about 50 per cent between 1972 and 1982 ; in England and Wales the decrease was about 35 per cent over the same period ( Smith and Jacobson 1988 ) . |
| 12 | For those aged 75 + the increase in discharges was 46 per cent over the same period ( average annual increase of 2.7 per cent ) ( Bosanquet and Gray 1979 ) . |
| 13 | The proportion of unmarried mothers living with their parents declined from 49 per cent in 1973–5 to 30 per cent in 1983–4 , with a corresponding increase in those living in their own home from 36 to 59 per cent over the same period . |
| 14 | Local authority employment increased by 2.5 per cent over the same period , despite a reduction in refuse collection and disposal , the main field till then of tendering to private-sector firms ; ‘ although most of these firms claim to have a national presence , the great bulk of their work is in the South East and coverage of other areas is often patchy ’ ( Le Grand and Robinson , 1984 , 60 ) . |
| 15 | The annualized inflation rate for the first nine months of 1989 was 5.1 per cent compared with 4 per cent over the same period in 1988 . |
| 16 | Although passengers are returning to the air — numbers carried by BA rose 7.3 per cent to 6.18 million in the quarter — the increase is not matching the rise in BA 's capacity , which jumped 11 per cent over the same period . |