Example sentences of "figure [be] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the statistics published this week — not by the Department of the Environment , but based on figures provided by local authorities throughout the country — show that the figure is not 30 per cent . |
| 2 | Department of Energy analyses also imply that the scope for energy savings could be as high as 60 per cent , although a more realistic figure is around 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Off the top of my head , I think that the figure is about 25 per cent . |
| 4 | A 1975/6 random daytime survey for the Department of the Environment revealed that over 7 per cent of the tapwater in England exceeded the EC limit while in Scotland the figure was over 34 per cent . |
| 5 | By 1945 the figure was just 8 per cent . |
| 6 | Last year , the figure was about 25 per cent . |
| 7 | If senior management figures are considered , about three per cent ( 52 out of 1000 ) are women ; five years ago the figure was only one per cent . |
| 8 | In March 1989 a set of directives on economic relations between the USSR and its constituent republics was published , which called for the transfer of up to 36 per cent of industrial production to local control ( the existing figure was only 5 per cent ) , with much higher levels — up to 72 per cent — in Georgia and the Baltic republics . |
| 9 | The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other . |
| 10 | Today these figures are only 22 per cent and 39 per cent respectively , whilst support for visits from nuclear-armed ships has dropped from 47 to 24 per cent . |
| 11 | In East London where poverty was most heavily concentrated the figures were respectively 35 per cent and 13.3 per cent |