Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomson , whose companies include Horizon , Skytours , OSL , HCI and Wings , announced its new prices as it was revealed that bookings for 1993 are already 10 per cent down on last year . |
| 2 | This is just 3 per cent of the world installed base and only 11 per cent of the installed base in Europe . |
| 3 | This is around 10 per cent . |
| 4 | This is about 4 per cent for HG92 , which is comparable with the ratio of the average baryonic density , derived through models of cosmological nucleosynthesis , to the critical density . |
| 5 | On average this is about 33 per cent , although it ranges up to about 60 per cent in the case of Italy , and is over 40 per cent for Britain , France and the United States . |
| 6 | For men this is about 3 per cent and has remained constant . |
| 7 | According to Craig and Chou , it is already contributing 0.23°C to mean global temperatures through the greenhouse effect , and this is almost 40 per cent of the possible ( but not yet confirmed ) effect of carbon dioxide today . |
| 8 | This is only 8 per cent of total Volvo car production worldwide , and five times more cars are still assembled on traditional lines at Gothenburg . |
| 9 | It sounds impressive , but this is only 2–15 per cent of the present annual increase , and it is pure guesswork how much of the termite production represents an increase caused by deforestation . |
| 10 | The largesse the NHS received in an election year was predictably short-lived and the settlement for 1993 is only 0.8 per cent above the inflation forecast . |
| 11 | This was nearly 50 per cent higher than the latest official statistics for the prison that I was able to obtain : on 31 December 1987 , just over a year earlier , there had been a population of 405 . |
| 12 | Indeed , the average flow , as a percentage of GDP , for eight countries in the sample before 1914 was 3.25 per cent a year ; the average flow for ten countries post-1965 was only 1 per cent ( 2 ) . |
| 13 | This is where you may have a problem , particularly if you are a first-time buyer , because the deposit payable is usually 5 per cent of the total value of the house , sometimes even 10 per cent . |
| 14 | The level of manufacturing investment is now lower than in 1979 , and the growth in manufacturing output since 1979 is just 4.9 per cent . |
| 15 | In contrast , growth in R&D spending between 1990 and 1991 was only 5 per cent , largely as a result of a rationalization of research on agrochemicals . |
| 16 | The expected growth in world air travel in 1991 was only 3 per cent in 1991 , he said , compared with the " more usual " 6 to 7 per cent . |
| 17 | Output during the first 6 months of 1991 was down 22.6 per cent on the same period in 1990 . |
| 18 | Weekly earnings in 1812 were only 16 per cent above their 1793 level , although they had been 25 per cent higher in 1808 . |
| 19 | When sales of unleaded were only 16 per cent of all fuel revenue in Britain , Germany was leading the field with a figure of 53 per cent ; in Denmark the percentage was 34 and in Norway 27 . |
| 20 | Winter-to-spring ozone levels in the northern hemisphere declined by about 3 per cent a decade between 1969 and 1989 , but the acceleration in recent years means the total decline since 1969 is now 14 per cent . |
| 21 | Motorcyclist casualties in 1992 were down 13 per cent with deaths falling 16 per cent and serious injuries down 14 per cent . |
| 22 | The price in column 4 is simply 20 per cent on the corresponding average cost from year 2 onwards . |
| 23 | Despite the generally poor economic climate , physical demand for platinum in 1992 was only 6 per cent lower than in 1991 . |
| 24 | Though Brazil 's massive debt of about $115 billion is only 30 per cent of GNP , its debt service ratio is over 50 per cent . |
| 25 | The lowest proportion of any cohort of married women to remain childless by age 50 is about 7 per cent ( see figure 4.10 ) . |
| 26 | PYX 1 is physiologically active in vitro at concentrations of 1.0–10 µmol/l/l and PYX 2 at 0.1–10. µmol/l/l . |
| 27 | Even though the prices of many of the goods which were used in constructing the retail price index were subject to government control , the official consumer price index increased between January 1970 and September 1973 by 119 per cent and , using this same index , the official rate of inflation in the fourth quarter of 1973 was over 500 per cent . |
| 28 | If the volume index is to be trusted , the average annual rate of real growth of Yugoslav exports from 1979 to 1987 was nearly 2.5 per cent , although almost all of this occurred between 1983 and 1985 , after which there was a slight decline . |
| 29 | In 1984 , 61 per cent of households owned their own homes , the proportion in 1971 being only 49 per cent . |
| 30 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |