Sentence examples for a per cent a from inspiring English sources

The bill lowered the retirement age of some workers by five years, and increased the portion of their highest salary that counted toward their pension by up to half a per cent a year which immediately increased those pension obligations by more than twenty-five per cent.

The bill lowered the retirement age of some workers by five years, and increased the portion of their highest salary that counted toward their pension by up to half a per cent a year — which immediately increased those pension obligations by more than twenty-five per cent.

(A fraction of a per cent actually do believe that).

A fraction of a per cent on a house sale could be worth a substantial amount of money.

People will say, 'You have shown only half a per cent of improvement.' Well, half a per cent is huge.

The unemployment rate is also essentially unchanged, registering at 7.6 per cent, a tenth of a per cent above where it was in April.

(One basis point is equal to a hundredth of a per cent).

Overall, sales dipped only a fraction of a per cent compared to last year.

The shares fell a quarter of a per cent to 395p.

They may be separated from an A-grade student by only a per cent, after all.

The result was a beef patty that was roughly three-quarters water, twenty per cent protein, five per cent or so fat, and a quarter of a per cent seaweed.