Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb -s] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | * A confidential World Bank report states that Indonesia only retains 30 per cent of the profits from logging , as opposed to 85 per cent from its oil industry . |
| 2 | CB already claims 2 per cent of the British fixed-rate mortgage market . |
| 3 | Volvo now owns 20 per cent of Renault 's car division , with the French company owning 25 per cent of Volvo Cars and 10 per cent of AB Volvo . |
| 4 | Fifteen per cent of these earth scientists worked in Scotland , whereas Scotland only has nine per cent of the UK population . |
| 5 | This Friesian type now forms 60 per cent of the national cow herd : there are more than 370,000 black-and-white cows . |
| 6 | I should perhaps add that the LCD still pays 50 per cent of the costs . |
| 7 | ‘ Miranda currently holds sixty per cent of the shares , you hold fifteen per cent , and twenty-five per cent are held by the public . |
| 8 | 11 NINTENDO now controls 85 per cent of the American video games market . |
| 9 | A house in Yorkshire and Humberside now costs 55 per cent of one in London — exactly the same as in 1969 . |
| 10 | London Securities now has 13.6 per cent . |
| 11 | If an act is starting out and the manager immediately takes 25 per cent of their money , the band are almost certainly going to be in financial difficulties . |
| 12 | This was the first piece of silliness : Comet already has 8.8 per cent and Dixons has almost 18 per cent — quite enough when merged to breach the 25 per cent ceiling which triggers a Monopolies Commission inquiry . |
| 13 | The French reckon that Italy now gets 7 per cent of our custom and , more surprisingly , that Switzerland gets only 5 per cent . |
| 14 | The major reason why Britain now has 40 per cent of all part-time jobs in the EEC is the structure of national insurance contributions which exempt both employers and employees from paying any contributions on earnings of less than £43 a week . |
| 15 | Below- the-line activity in the US now takes 60 per cent of marketers ' expenditure , and it would be foolish to exclude the same thing happening here . |
| 16 | Dairy Farm now holds 28 per cent . |
| 17 | Although electricity only supplies 15 per cent of the UK 's energy demand , it consumes almost a third of primary energy from fossil fuels . |
| 18 | My impression is that the old trick of saying that the cigarettes are for one 's mother or older brother still works 99.99 per cent . |
| 19 | Freshwater acidification potentially affects 24 per cent of the total area of sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) in England , Scotland and Wales , according to research by English Nature . |