Example sentences of "10 and [adj] [unc] cent of " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz , architect of the new economic plan , between 10 and 20 per cent of the 7m-strong Polish workforce stand to lose their jobs through cutting inefficient industries as well as reducing the army and police . |
| 2 | This is because the true fracture stress at the crack tip is presumably the theoretical strength of the material and this generally lies between 10 and 20 per cent of the Young 's modulus , E ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 3 | Even so , the industry had to cut off between 10 and 20 per cent of peak loads in these winters , despite attempts to reduce the peak demand by less drastic means . |
| 4 | However , the European Commission has estimated that for most countries this budget accounts for between 10 and 20 per cent of GDP ( Evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities , 1987/8 HL 72 , p. 17 ) . |
| 5 | A royalty of between 10 and 15 per cent of the retail price of the sheet music could be negotiated for the composer . |
| 6 | A single hectare of Amazon rainforest soil can contain more than 8 million ants , and between 10 and 15 per cent of the entire animal biomass consists of ants . |
| 7 | Patrick Moss , director of legal aid in Hong Kong , said that under the scheme , a successful litigant paid between 10 and 12 per cent of his damages to a central fund which financed other cases . |
| 8 | CONCERN is growing in the art world over the news that Charles Saatchi the advertising agency millionaire has sold between 10 and 12 per cent of his art collection in the past six months . |
| 9 | This should cover all the areas mentioned above except sheet music where a royalty of between 10 and 12 per cent of the full published price is the going rate . |
| 10 | The latest opinion polls are predicting that the National Front will get between 10 and 12 per cent of the vote — down both from the 14 per cent it won in last year 's regional elections and from Mr Le Pen 's own record score of 14.4 per cent in the 1988 presidential elections . |
| 11 | Under the pre-Children Act 1989 regime , between 10 and 25 per cent of care cases involving truants resulted in a residential care order . |
| 12 | * Drought conditions are also prevailing over much of western France and Spain , where large areas have received between 10 and 50 per cent of normal rainfall . |