Example sentences of "[unc] to [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference in success rates was marked , no success rate for decimals exceeding 15 per cent , and those for whole numbers ranging from 50 per cent to over 80 per cent . |
| 2 | As to the discounts , these appear to range in generosity from 5 per cent to over 60 per cent . |
| 3 | Although it has picked up since , between 1984–85 and 1987–88 this slumped from 17 per cent to just 14.25 per cent . |
| 4 | Bottle strengths vary from 40 per cent to nearly 60 per cent — some distilleries leave the whiskey uncut ; others reduce it with water . |
| 5 | In contrast , the proportion of all widows aged 65 or more increased from 38 per cent to nearly 60 per cent , while their numbers rose from 386,000 in 1871 to 1,529,000 in 1951 , doubling between 1871 and 1921 , and almost doubling again during the following thirty years , reflecting increased longevity amongst women . |
| 6 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 7 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 8 | Across the region fares on different services are going up anything from 3 per cent to nearly 9 per cent . |
| 9 | Their share of the national vote dropped more than five per cent to below 30 per cent for the first time . |
| 10 | Monthly inflation had been cut from more than 300 per cent to about five per cent since he took office . |
| 11 | That should nudge Whitbread 's share of the British beer market up by about one per cent to about 14 per cent . |
| 12 | There was a comparable fall in the proportion of allotment land held by communal peasants — from some 83 per cent to about 66 per cent . |
| 13 | BBC And Independent Programme Makers : Independent production should rise from 25 per cent to about 40 per cent of TV programmes . |
| 14 | Last year its share of the UK market rose from 2 per cent to almost 3 per cent sales rose 50 per cent with profits more than doubled . |
| 15 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 16 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 17 | Paragraph 12 pronounced the key requirement : the Government 's duty was , it said , to advocate a policy which would provide the best possible foundation for a further reduction in inflation , already reduced in the previous year from 17 per cent to around 8 per cent ; an increase in jobs and output ; and an improved standard of living . |
| 18 | At the same time he said that new rules would be drawn up on the ownership of property , in preparation for the privatization of numerous state enterprises ; in this context he demanded a cut in bank interest rates , from a typical level of 50 per cent to around 20 per cent , so as to encourage private investment in industry , where he said that productivity had fallen by 10 per cent since the start of the year . |
| 19 | It was predicted that inflation would rise from its current level of 1.2 per cent to around 3 per cent . |
| 20 | The main targets were as follows : ( i ) to increase gross national product ( GNP ) at an average annual growth rate of about 6 per cent ; ( ii ) to increase the total output value of industry and agriculture at an average annual rate of 6.1 per cent ; ( iii ) to increase total agricultural output at an average annual rate of 3.5 per cent , with grain output reaching 500,000,000 tonnes and cotton 5,250,000 tonnes by 2000 ; ( iv ) to increase total industrial output at an average annual rate of 6.8 per cent , with the output of raw coal reaching 1,400 million tonnes , electricity 1,100 million kWh , steel 80,000,000 tonnes , chemical fertilizer 120,000,000 tonnes and rail freight 1,900 million tonnes ; ( v ) to ensure that 40 per cent of major products in the machine-building and light industry sector reached or approached relatively advanced international standards ; ( vi ) to raise the proportion of the tertiary sector in the GNP from the current 25 per cent to around 33 per cent ; and ( vii ) to control the average annual population growth rate at below 12.5 per thousand . |