Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time there were bubbles of water , and he concluded that his first sample — ostensibly uncontaminated fuel — had actually been nearly 100 per cent water . |
| 2 | The most extreme difference occurred between open class items and affixes. 96 per cent of errors in the production of open class items were substitution errors , and only 4 per cent loss or addition errors , whereas for affixes there were only 24 per cent substitution errors but 76 per cent loss and addition errors . |
| 3 | With Jaguar revealing more misery in the US where September sales were down 19.1 per cent year on the year , the company needs the takeover interest to keep its share price alive . |
| 4 | The growth of imports has been over 11 per cent p.a. whereas export growth has only been 7.7 per cent p.a. , and if one considers exports and imports of goods other than oil products then the figures are 13 per cent p.a. import growth and 9 per cent p.a. export growth . |
| 5 | Sure enough , there is only forty per cent attendance at breakfast . |
| 6 | This optimum is not 100 per cent debt financing as equity is regarded as a safety cushion which will absorb any losses which might be incurred during the ordinary course of trading and/or liquidation . |
| 7 | ‘ The price of a pack of cigarettes is already 76 per cent tax . |
| 8 | ‘ The price of a pack of cigarettes is already 76 per cent tax . |
| 9 | ‘ We do have a bit of indie in us , it 's about 10 per cent indie , 90 per cent dance . |
| 10 | It 's about eighty per cent experience and the other twenty common sense . ’ |
| 11 | Today it is about 75 per cent Palestinian . |
| 12 | I think she is about 70 per cent right . |
| 13 | It contains good amounts of vitamins A and D , but no minerals and not protein and is almost 100 per cent fat . |
| 14 | One of the southern authority 's main potable supply rivers , for example , consists in dry weather of more than 50 per cent effluent ; and another river flowing through a major city in the northern authority is over 90 per cent effluent . |
| 15 | According to the 1989 census , Abkhazia was only 17.8 per cent Abkhaz and 45.7 per cent Georgian ( other major ethnic groups being Russians and Armenians ) , but since 1978 it had demanded secession from Georgia , this campaign having escalated in 1990 [ see pp. 37665 ; 38079 ] . |
| 16 | Apparently — he told Robert — anyone at his school who was not 100 per cent white had been referred to as ‘ Abdul . ’ |
| 17 | There was almost 100 per cent attendance and we found that everybody was anti-dump — and vehemently so ’ . |