Example sentences of "[adv] more [conj] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | All successful companies spend much more than 0.5 per cent . |
| 2 | It may not be much more than forty per cent of the voters , leaving the non-voters and the remaining sixty per cent of those who took part in the election to be governed by an administration which is not of their choosing . |
| 3 | The figures show a similar fall in the share of social product taken by government between 1979 and 1982 , of somewhat more than 6 per cent , followed by a substantial recovery in 1987 . |
| 4 | So , for example , £3000 interest for an investment of £97 000 is somewhat more than 3 per cent : it is 3/97 × 100 = 3.09 per cent . ) |
| 5 | Soon , however , you learn to caress the throttle and avoid pouring in more than 100 per cent torque . |
| 6 | However , in Britain the same label means the drink contains not more than 1.2 per cent alcohol . |
| 7 | This had been forthcoming , but the Executive Council of the Shipping Federation had been unable to entertain the proposal from an organisation to which , it claimed , not more than one per cent of seamen belonged . |
| 8 | Even in industrial Babergh hundred , Suffolk , stripping the surface layer from the record exposes the original economy of the wood-pasture country — specialised dairying , pig fattening and horse breeding , in almost half its villages , which preserved this traditional system , the top people accounted for not more than 14 per cent of the wealth , a solitary £100 man for just 4½ per cent . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) If the partial offer could result in not less than 30 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained , the offer must state the precise number of shares offered for and may not be declared unconditional as to acceptances unless acceptances are received for not less than that number ( Rule 36.4 ) . |
| 10 | Families whose incomes are not more than 40 per cent above the sb level are often considered to be ‘ living on the margins of poverty ’ ; in 1985 , seven in ten of all one parent families had incomes below this level compared with two out of ten two parent families . |
| 11 | Cable & Wireless finance director , Mr Rod Olsen , said the size of the stake being discussed was ‘ not less than 10 per cent and not more than 20 per cent ’ which would cost CITIC between £375million and £750 million . |
| 12 | Even at independence in 1961 , probably not more than ten per cent of the country 's African population could read and write . |
| 13 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 14 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , she makes up fifty per cent of the cast — the only other character is her master , Uberto — and sings rather more than fifty per cent of the music , so the drawback becomes quite a serious one . |
| 16 | In 1984 rather more than forty per cent of the total land area of England and Wales had been defined by local planning authorities as being within an area of special control . |
| 17 | It was the 200 or so unmarried or widowed women , who made up rather more than 25 per cent of the original sample , who remained as a solid phalanx of women compositors in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 18 | The reason for this seems to have been that until 1914 , the return on UK securities was very low , rarely more than 3 per cent , and better returns could almost always be obtained abroad . |
| 19 | Raw materials amount to almost 50 per cent of costs , but suppliers will be lucky to pass on more than 5 per cent , Jim Leng believes . |
| 20 | In the nineteenth century it provided little more than ten per cent of government revenue . |
| 21 | The total land area is less than 0.3 per cent of the world 's total ; little more than 50 per cent greater than that of the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Although Apple 's Macintosh machines have always offered high-resolution screens and excellent graphics and audio architecture , they represent little more than 12 per cent of the personal computers in use today . |
| 23 | Interestingly , though the budget had risen to $18 million ( from around $9–10 million for Alien , seven inflationary years earlier ) , rentals were up hardly more than 8 per cent , from $40.3 million to $43.7 million ; the more conventional , apparently more ‘ popular ’ film actually drew fewer people to the cinema , at least in North America . |
| 24 | Still , though the English and the Germans sent hardly more than 10 per cent of their net demographic increase abroad , in absolute numbers this was a very large contingent . |
| 25 | Short term money market rates are still more than 4½ per cent and need to be much nearer 3 per cent . |
| 26 | GALLIFORD , the construction company , boosted full year returns by 30 per cent on the back of a full one-point increase in pre-tax profits margins to slightly more than 5 per cent . |
| 27 | ‘ In the event teachers received slightly more than 7.2 per cent . |
| 28 | In 1988 slightly more than 82 per cent of employed women worked in service industries as compared with 57.5 per cent of employed men . |
| 29 | In a combative interview with Empire Magazine he declared : ‘ Black people make up 20 per cent of the population of the US but they make up more than 95 per cent of what 's interesting and hip . ’ |
| 30 | This SiO4 building-block can combine with almost all of the other twelve elements in the list to form silicate minerals , and these , with quartz , make up more than 99 per cent of all volcanic rocks . |