Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [num] [no cls] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coal fell into disfavour on the grounds that steam engines are noisy , polluting and only 5 per cent efficient . |
| 2 | The 1989 AMERG survey of architects , however , indicates that a substantial minority ( over 28 per cent ) felt that the demand for their services at the time was not being adequately met and nearly 40 per cent felt that the intake of students into architectural training was insufficient to meet future demands . |
| 3 | In this case , women represented 7.6 per cent of the candidates proposed and only 3 per cent of those elected . |
| 4 | But the company 's also diversifying and around thirty per cent of its current business involves designing large cylinders for cranes and fire engines . |
| 5 | A survey by the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers reveals that under the new financing formula nearly 60 per cent of secondary schools will be less well funded and about 40 per cent better resourced . |