Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dentine differs from enamel in that the inorganic part constitutes only about 70 per cent by volume . |
| 2 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 3 | The government had begun to introduce from March 20 monthly compensation payments on top of wages , pensions , student grants and child benefit , albeit conceding that these would cover only around 85 per cent of the cost of the price rises . |
| 4 | While their sales of SelecTronics ' product was entirely mail order two years ago , it now represents only about 30 per cent of the total . |
| 5 | There are about 2,600 housing associations in England and Wales with a total stock of over 600,000 dwellings , and although this represents only about 3 per cent of all dwellings , the associations ' share of the total stock will increase substantially as the full impact of the 1988 Act begins to be felt . |
| 6 | Direct taxation — including forced loans and benevolences — produced only about 35 per cent . |
| 7 | He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 . |
| 8 | This is happening in over ten per cent of all the cases that are coming up before your agency or your government 's agency , whereby a working parent so-called absent according to you , is supporting not only his children , his ex-wife , or his e if it 's if it 's the husband supporting |
| 9 | Packed chlorine is used to treat the water used in almost 70 per cent of Britain 's homes while about 50 per cent of the household bleach sold in the UK contains Effect Products sodium hypochlorite . |
| 10 | Set up in 1991 , the service has received requests for traces from over 15,000 people and possible pension source has been located in over 90 per cent of cases . |
| 11 | A recent examination of over a hundred major and minor innovations in scientific instruments revealed that users dominated the innovation process in about 80 per cent of the cases . |
| 12 | The crust , therefore , is an extremely thin surface layer representing only about 0.5 per cent of the Earth 's radius . |
| 13 | In particular , the air now contains only about 0.05 per cent of carbon dioxide : a trace indeed . |
| 14 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 15 | The official figure for voter turnout was over 1,600,000 people , representing just over 90 per cent of those registered to vote . |
| 16 | It provided for a record deficit of 185,340,000 million forint ( US$2,260 million ) , representing just under 6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and slightly less than the deficit expected for 1992 . |
| 17 | Burmah has just under 30 per cent , which could be sold on to SHV , or another party . |
| 18 | The package was less comprehensive than had been expected , however , for observers agreed that the options available to Lee were restricted by sharply rising inflation ( consumer prices rose by over 3 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 ) which precluded any general reduction in interest rates . |
| 19 | In the event , absenteeism in the body plant actually rose by over 20 per cent over the seven-year period spanning the installation of the line-out system , though this was a smaller rise than in the press and the paint plants adjacent to the body shop . |
| 20 | The contrast is even more marked when one examines the exports in detail ; those by denizens fell by only 2 per cent , those by Hansard merchants actually rose by over 6 per cent , while those by other aliens fell by over 77 per cent . |
| 21 | Using the same analysis as Government statisticians , the figures show that over the period 1979 to 1988 , real disposable incomes rose by over 30 per cent . |
| 22 | Over the last decade , the upper disposable income limit rose by about 50 per cent , but earnings rose by 135 per cent and prices by 93 per cent . |
| 23 | It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 per cent where they stood . |
| 24 | From 1955 to 1969 inflation averaged just under 2.8 per cent per annum . |
| 25 | In the domestic market , which represents just over three per cent of coal output , marketing is handled by Central Marketing Services , created when the Solid Fuel Advisory Service was phased out in December 1989 . |
| 26 | Tesco make just under seven per cent . |
| 27 | However , despite general agreement about the need for groupworkers to be supervised by university trained personnel , this occurs in only 30 per cent of services in Flanders ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | This occurs in about five per cent of cases of gonorrhoea for either site . |
| 29 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 30 | The Liberal Democrats were averaging just under 19 per cent — a fall of about four per cent on the level of the Liberal-SDP Alliance in 1987 . |