Example sentences of "[noun] of about [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , they were sufficient to allow an increase in the labour force of about 5 per cent at constant wages . |
| 2 | Slower growth in wages would produce a cut of about 4 per cent in real terms . |
| 3 | I am sure it was the pressure from the warrior class and the impending general election that led to a final figure of 63,500 , which is a cut of about 17 per cent . |
| 4 | The National Farmers ' Union 's South East region environmental study group is arguing for a fertiliser cut of about 20 per cent , to be applied across Europe by means of individual farm quotas . |
| 5 | It represented in real terms an overall cut of about 9 per cent , though as allocations to individual local authorities were made on an arbitrary basis , some of them suffered much greater reductions . |
| 6 | Following the first oil shock , inflation rose from a figure of about 5 per cent in both countries in the early 1970s to an annual average of 16 per cent in Britain and 19 per cent in Spain in the period 1973–8 . |
| 7 | Let us make the conservative assumption that CD-X follows the same trend but that by mid-decade it achieves a penetration of about 25 per cent of CD-A , rising to 60 per cent of CD-A by the year 2000 ( obviously much depends on when CD-X appears ! ) . |
| 8 | We are now talking about a rate support grant of about 42 per cent . |
| 9 | A further huge reduction of about 80 per cent in the labour force had taken place since the introduction of khozraschet at the start of NEP . |
| 10 | The new company , which will be called Chiron , will have 1500 employees , although a reduction of about 10 per cent of the workforce is expected early in 1992 . |
| 11 | The UK 's growth of total exports showed the slowest growth of any of 19 Industrial Market Economies for much of the last 25 years ( World Bank , 1989 ) ; however , through the mid 1980s the decline of the UK 's share of world trade was arrested at the level of about 8 per cent . |
| 12 | Mr Bekesi said that unless the government moved swiftly on economic reform , the outcome would be a flourishing black market , widespread shortages , inflation much higher than its current level of about 20 per cent , and high unemployment . |
| 13 | Some 1800 million years ago atmospheric oxygen was fast approaching the present level of about 21 per cent of the total . |
| 14 | Conservative financial management in the UK usually recommends a level of about 30 per cent . |
| 15 | Conservative financial management in the UK usually recommends a level of about 30 per cent . |
| 16 | By the end of the reign total land revenue came to about £100,000 , a rise of nearly 25 per cent , compared with a price rise of about 75 per cent . |
| 17 | The Department of Trade caught 31 bosses red-handed — a rise of about 50 per cent . |
| 18 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 19 | The move is occasioned by the fact that the 1982–3 pool allocations represent a cut in income of about 9 per cent for the polytechnics and as much as 15 per cent for the colleges of higher education , the difference between them being ascribed by the DES to the fact that it has to base its view on cuts on earlier data and the polytechnics have reduced their unit costs more sharply than the colleges in interim years . |
| 20 | Such cases are only reliably detectable by laboratory analysis , which will reveal the presence of about 40 per cent HbS . |
| 21 | The effects of this regime on subsequent recovery sleep are similar to the effects of REM sleep deprivation , in that a rebound of about 50 per cent occurs on recovery nights . |
| 22 | The move has been interpreted as making Caird less likely to bid for Leigh Interests , a rival waste disposal group in which Caird has a stake of about 5 per cent . |
| 23 | Someone with the £10,000 maximum , assuming average luck , can expect to collect a prize in 11 out of the 12 monthly draws each year — a return of about 6.5 per cent . |
| 24 | Production over 1992 fell by 9 per cent , compared with a slump of about 20 per cent in Russia . |
| 25 | Experiments to test QCD give results with an error of about 10 per cent . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 28 | This represents an elastic strain or interatomic separation of about 1.0 per cent , perhaps between a tenth and a twentieth of the theoretical strength . |
| 29 | During a five-day smog in the Ruhr area of West Germany in January 1985 the authorities believed they had achieved overall emission reductions of about 30 per cent , including 14 per cent of sulphur dioxide from power stations and 40–50 per cent of oxides of nitrogen from traffic ( Lubkert , 1989 ) . |
| 30 | The latter ( which is not internationally recognized other than by Turkey ) was declared in November 1983 by the Assembly of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus , which was itself created after the occupation by Turkish troops of about 40 per cent of the island 's area in July 1974 . |