Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 2 | Up to 75 per cent of bricks and mortar values on a foroed sales basis , or up to 60 per cent of the going concern business valuation , to include goodwill , fixtures fittings and stock are yardsticks that are frequently encountered . |
| 3 | Such high levels of childlessness do not fit the consistent response to questions in the General Household Survey that only about 5–7 per cent of women intend to remain childless ; but up to 20 per cent of women have failed to reply to this question , although fewer in more recent surveys . |
| 4 | Broadleaves account for 36 per cent of British woodland , although only for 18 per cent in Scotland , with oak , beech , ash , sycamore and birch the main species . |
| 5 | Final results published on March 13 when Trovoada was officially proclaimed President-elect showed that close to 60 per cent of the 60,000 registered electors had voted , giving him 81.8 per cent of the ballot . |
| 6 | There is no test to identify who the carriers are although up to two per cent of adults could transmit A-T . |
| 7 | If you examine such a male 's sperms you will find that up to 95 per cent of them contain the t gene , only 5 per cent the normal allele . |
| 8 | But independent adviser David Aaron is offering to top that up to 10 per cent for the next year for any Assets reader who invests through him before December 31 ( Phone 0908 281544 for details ) . |
| 9 | The study concludes that up to 10 per cent of roads are giving way at the edges , requiring what is known as " haunch repairs " . |
| 10 | One leading businessman said this week that up to 70 per cent of shares traded every day were being sold overseas . |
| 11 | Bradshaw and Millar estimate that up to 70 per cent of lone mothers could be employed if all who said they wanted to could immediately get jobs and child care . |
| 12 | The report recommends that up to 70 per cent of our diet should now consist of fruit , vegetables and complex carbohydrates such as pasta , potatoes , bread and other wholegrain foods . |
| 13 | The company involved , Flambeau Mining , claims that up to 70 per cent of the $20-30 million cost of the mine will go towards environmental protection measures , including a water treatment plant . |
| 14 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 15 | According to the results given in the Soviet central government newspaper Izvestiya after the second round of voting for the Moldavian Supreme Soviet , with all but 10 of the 380 seats filled , such dual endorsements meant that up to 80 per cent of the elected deputies were identified as communists , while both the Popular Front and Yedinstvo were reported each to be represented by around 30 per cent of deputies . |
| 16 | It was estimated that up to 80 per cent of grain was hoarded by farms to barter for machinery and other goods [ see p. 38302 ] . |
| 17 | And in Britain , the last survey carried out by the Sports Council revealed that up to 75 per cent of the population were doing very little at all to get fit . |
| 18 | Speaking at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union , Lin Callis of NASA suggested that up to 75 per cent of the decline could be a result of the fluctuating solar cycle , with a build up of electrons and neutrons breaking down the ozone . |
| 19 | Some estimates suggest that up to 11 per cent of total gas supply in Britain is being lost . |
| 20 | Recent estimates have suggested that up to 40 per cent of the deputies favour such an option , with 30 per cent undecided . |
| 21 | Studies show that up to 40 per cent of expatriate US executives fail on foreign assignments , and have to be sent home , and that expatriate managers are increasingly considered by the TNCs to be a source of avoidable trouble and expense ( Harvey , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | Yet the fact that up to 40 per cent felt under no compulsion to oblige the local magnates with their votes is revealing , and makes us wonder whether those who polled for the Whigs really did so out of deference or as a result of political conviction . |
| 23 | The Great Scourge was not only a vigorous purity polemic , it mobilized the evidence of countless medics to insist that up to eighty per cent of the male population was infected with gonorrhoea — the race poison of the eugenists . |
| 24 | But a survey by Which magazine has found that up to eighty per cent of loose ham sold in delicatessens was contaminated with bacteria . |
| 25 | In the United States reports have suggested that up to 50 per cent of cases of gonorrhoea in males may be symptomless . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , Poll Watch estimated that up to 50 per cent of votes cast throughout Thailand involved an exchange of money , with the figure rising to between 70 and 90 per cent in the Isarn ( North-East Thailand ) . |
| 27 | It estimates that up to 50 per cent of retail gasoline outlets could close in the face of the cost of complying with the new regulations , which include compulsory liability insurance , leak-detection systems and anti-corrosive tanks . |
| 28 | Only two of the current prison service staff are female , a fact much regretted by the Governor , who believes that up to 20 per cent of female staff would be beneficial in terms of that elusive ‘ quality of life ’ inside . |
| 29 | Other evidence collected by COBE supported the theory that up to 90 per cent of the universe was made up of " dark matter " , the presence of which scientists had inferred but had never directly detected . |
| 30 | A 1989 report from Washington , DC has just revealed that up to 23 per cent of young African-American men between the ages of 20 and 29 are under some kind of penal supervision . |