Sentence examples for the former rate from inspiring English sources

Last year's OECD report on sustainable policies for growth said the 50p rate should return closer to the former rate of 40p because high tax "adversely affects incentives and entrepreneurialism".

But sure enough, supporters of medical marijuana were pleasantly pleased Wednesday after Oakland voters overwhelmingly approved a huge tax increase — 15 times the former rate — on sales at the city's handful of permitted medical marijuana dispensaries.

Our correspondent says the president may want to lower the former rate to 3%, while raising the levy on the larger depositors to 12.5%.

The former rate is the same as the federal minimum wage, while the latter rate, incidentally, roughly matches the living wage rate for Maryland, as defined by the state.

Ninety of a given region exhibited the former rate, whereas the remaining regions possessed the latter rate.

For example, the rate for rhabdomyosarcoma in the Northern Region in 20 24-year-olds 20 24-year-olds 20 24-year-olds compared wash 1.4 pereportedn in the present study, but the former rase was based on only five cases.

In a paper soon to be published in the National Institute Economic Review, David Bell and David Blanchflower (the former rate-setter at the Bank of England who saw the slump of 2008-9 coming) have compiled what they call an "underemployment index": the net sum of all the extra hours at current wages that Britons want to work, but can't.

It continued the former rates of personal income tax.

With the lowering of the duty the increase is so rapid, that in the fourth year of the second period it is more than doubled, and more revenue is secured at half the former rates of duty.

The former rates users on their influence in relation to each other's shopping habits.

"Standard exceeded" can be roughly compared to the former rating of "advanced".