In my first year, we achieved the largest percentage increase in the VA budget in 30 years.

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He said the statistics which should be considered were those showing the percentage of people who achieved three grade As at A-level.

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Countries are ordered by decreasing percentage of poverty reduction achieved.

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For schools and colleges, the Tech Bacc will become a league table performance measure from 2017, in the way that schools are measured by the percentage of pupils who have achieved academic English Baccalaureate subjects.

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The GAO report found that the plans using the latter 13 consultants achieved annual returns that were generally 1.3 percentage points lower during the 2000 to 2004 period than did the other plans.

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However, given that these cuts must be achieved over only seven months instead of 12, the effective percentage reductions will be approximately 9 percent for nondefense programs and 13 percent for defense programs.

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But Mr Maduro's margin of victory was far narrower than that achieved by Chavez at elections last October, when he beat Mr Capriles by more than 10 percentage points.

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Japan and South Korea, for instance, achieved similar rates of growth in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively, with investment levels that were ten percentage points lower than China's.

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