Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a good 30 per cent of assessments in Kiftsgate hundred were nils , the other hundreds returned none at all . |
| 2 | Figures released by the Service claimed that a mere 10 per cent of the Japanese drift-net fleet was responsible for the deaths of 1,758 whales and dolphins , 81,956 blue sharks , 30,464 seabirds and more than three million non-target fish , including salmon . |
| 3 | The survey reveals that 7 per cent of ancient woodland has been clear felled , mostly for agriculture , and that a further 38 per cent has been replanted with conifers . |
| 4 | A telephone poll in Moscow , for instance , found that 42 per cent of respondents thought the results of the summit were ‘ very good ’ , and that a further 44 per cent thought they were ‘ good ’ ; at the same time only 37 per cent thought the treaty would strengthen the security of the USSR , and 8 per cent thought it might be detrimental to Soviet interests . |
| 5 | Drudy and Drudy ( 1979 ) , in a study of north Norfolk , found that 31 per cent of their survey group aspired to professional and intermediate non-manual jobs and that a further 31 per cent aspired to other non-manual jobs , so that little more than one-third aspired to manual work . |
| 6 | Also , the Premier League are offering a sliding scale of percentages of television revenue , rather than a straight five per cent . |
| 7 | The whole idea of variable development charges ( particularly for the depressed areas ) was rejected , and a flat-rate 100 per cent levy introduced . |
| 8 | He produced in 1975 the results of a large survey , hailed as the ‘ Italian Kinsey report ’ , in which he found that 50 per cent of Italian women and 25 per cent of men engaged in sex ‘ only to please ’ their partners ; that 46 per cent of women and 19 per cent of men faked orgasm ; and that 49 per cent of women and a surprising 32 per cent of men reported that they were virgins at marriage . |
| 9 | In other words between 1974 and 1988 there had been a 25 per cent reduction in the proportionate use of fines and a corresponding 25 per cent increase in the proportionate use of imprisonment . |
| 10 | Almost twenty per cent of all nominees have been British , compared to seventy-five per cent US and a mere five per cent from the rest of the world . |
| 11 | None the less , even in that week only 39 per cent of the electorate rated it ‘ extremely important ’ and a mere 7 per cent said it was the main issue that ‘ should be ’ discussed by the parties . |
| 12 | Out of the British steelmasters in 1865,89 per cent came from middle-class families , 7 per cent from the lower middle class ( including small shopkeepers , independent artisans , etc. ) and a mere 4 per cent from workers , skilled or — more improbably — unskilled . |
| 13 | And a mere 5.5 per cent of brides and 3.7 per cent of grooms wait until they 're married to have sex . |
| 14 | Also , Christie 's tell me that their film and entertainment sale of December 1991 saw a mere 10 per cent unsold by value and a paltry 25 per cent unsold by lot , which of course does not add up to ‘ a third of the lots ’ unsold , as I wrongly stated last week . |
| 15 | The new programme provided for an average increase of 3 percentage points in turnover tax , the introduction of value added tax ( VAT ) and improved tax collection in 1993 , and a temporary 10 per cent surcharge on 75 per cent of Polish imports . |
| 16 | In 1983 , for example , the Conservatives won almost two-thirds of the seats in the House of Commons with less than half the nation 's backing and a modest 30.8 per cent of the total electorate , while the Labour Party won almost a third of the seats with only 27.6 per cent of the votes . |
| 17 | But on helping them decide how to vote , opinion was much more evenly divided : 36 per cent preferred television , 24 per cent the press , and a remarkable 40 per cent said the two sources were equally useful ( Table 6.12 ) . |
| 18 | Even the Crowther Report was not wholly free from doubts and worries : it documented the waste of talent in the system , with only 12 per cent of each age group remaining in full-time education to the age of seventeen , and a meagre 6 per cent for a further year beyond that . |
| 19 | Yet only five per cent of that volume comes from Scotland and a massive 70 per cent from the South-east . |
| 20 | But when they mixed the materials in a ratio of GaAu GaP , a single-crystal electrode achieved conversion efficiencies of 13 per cent in natural sunlight and a high 22 per cent with a helium-neon laser . |
| 21 | That is why 750 jobs are being shed and a whopping 32 per cent . |
| 22 | An earlier GHS survey found that 10 per cent of the care provided for children in one parent families was provided by another member of their households and a further 10 per cent by a relative outside the household . |
| 23 | Studies of lesbian subjects are particularly infrequent. 18 per cent of the US studies of homosexuality reviewed by Morin ( 1977 ) investigated lesbians , and a further 10 per cent examined both lesbians and gay men . |
| 24 | As Table 2.6 shows , rather over one fifth came from the construction industry , a similar proportion from the recreational industry , personal services and domestic services together , and a further 10 per cent from business services . |
| 25 | As far as medical intervention is concerned , 42 per cent of Conrad 's national study had unknown causes , and a further 27 per cent had hereditary causes . |
| 26 | Sixty-four per cent said they certainly believed psychic experiences existed and a further seventeen per cent thought them probable . |
| 27 | An American firm which used lie detectors on 1400 employees found that 62 per cent admitted petty theft before the tests were administered and a further 14 per cent after . |
| 28 | During the fall in fertility in the 1970s , all legitimate births fell by 24 per cent between 1970 and 1975 , and a further 3.4 per cent by 1985 . |
| 29 | For " one million " per cent of pupils gave the answer 10,000 and a further 13 per cent gave 100,000 . |
| 30 | The MORI poll conducted for the Sunday Times ( Jan 1988 ) showed that 11 per cent considered the quality of primary school education as excellent and a further 61 per cent as good . |