Example sentences of "[conj] 20 [no cls] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 21 per cent figure for share ownership compares with estimates of 19 or 20 per cent produced by such surveys . |
| 2 | Joe Sharp , director of space research at NASA 's Ames Research Laboratory explains : ‘ Nobody has the foggiest idea of the effect of even 40 per cent or 20 per cent of gravity for extended periods . ’ |
| 3 | Fifty per cent of all profit-related pay up to £3000 per annum or 20 per cent of total pay will be tax-free . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , this strain is something like 10 or 20 per cent . |
| 5 | CitiBank spent $1.5 billion in 1989 on information management , equivalent to $19,000 per staff member or 20 per cent of non-interest operating costs . |
| 6 | In that year , according to a report from the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , of the 75,210 FIS recipients , only 15,000 , or 20 per cent , were estimated to be above the tax threshold when FIS was claimed in the previous year ( Treasury and Civil Service Committee , The Structure of Personal Income , Taxation and Income Support , House of Commons Paper 2021 , HMSO 1982 , table 11 , p. 15 ) . |
| 7 | During the year to December 1990 — the year about which the hon. and learned Gentleman asked — unemployment regrettably increased by 1,941 , or 20 per cent . |
| 8 | tax on savings or 20 per cent . |
| 9 | Licensed private traders would be allowed to make a profit of no more than 10 per cent on unprocessed goods bought from state or co-operative enterprises , or 20 per cent if their merchandise had been repackaged or stored . |
| 10 | If the images are confined to a box area covering no more than a 15 or 20 per cent of the whole screen , the data volumes required are again correspondingly reduced . |
| 11 | For example , the current allowance of £1,720 for someone aged under 65 reduces their tax bill by £688 ( 40 per cent of £1,720 ) if they are a higher rate taxpayer , but by only half that amount ( £344 , or 20 per cent of £1,720 ) if they are a lower rate taxpayer . |
| 12 | Colin Ross , chairman , said one well , a development of the West Firsby field , had come on stream this month , adding about 60 barrels of oil per day , or 20 per cent , to net output . |
| 13 | Montague believes the unravelling of red tape means the EC market for rented trailers will come to resemble the US one , where 20 per cent of trailers are rented , compared with 7 per cent in Europe . |
| 14 | The conference approved the Economic Equality policy review which proposes : Ending tax on childcare ; Introducing a minimum wage starting at half of average male earnings ( £2.80 an hour ) , rising to two-thirds the average ; Income tax levels of no higher than 50 per cent at the top , down to less than 20 per cent at the bottom ; ‘ A significant and generous increase in child benefit over the lifetime of the Parliament ’ ; To tax gifts and inheritance at the point of receipt ; To crack down on tax loopholes ; Raise pensions immediately by £5 for single people and £8 for couples ; To introduce a new disability benefit ; To simplify income support rules ; To keep mortgage interest tax relief ‘ at a single rate equivalent to the basic rate relief which we inherit ’ . |
| 15 | The stores and construction sectors , which were then booming , produced average pay rises of more than 20 per cent . |
| 16 | Recovery by Mrs Fields : Shares in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 17 | SHARES in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p yesterday after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 18 | After a year in office , the Thatcher government found itself presiding over mass de-industrialization , inflation of more than 20 per cent , a rise in public spending , and the prospects of a slump . |
| 19 | Adding the HCA operations would give it over 1,500 beds — still less than 20 per cent of the private hospital beds in the UK . |
| 20 | WATER shares last night soared to a premium of more than 20 per cent on the unofficial ‘ grey market ’ as it became clear that the privatisation is set to become the biggest investor give-away since the 1987 Stock Exchange crash . |
| 21 | WATER shares last night soared to a premium of more than 20 per cent on the unofficial ‘ grey market ’ as it became clear that the privatisation is set to become the biggest investor give-away since the 1987 Stock Exchange crash . |
| 22 | As the figure does not cover families , yesterday 's decision to grant rights of entry to 50,000 households is likely to cover less than 20 per cent of those it targeted . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It estimates that in that time it cut its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20 per cent . |
| 25 | Indeed , trade union membership fell by more than 20 per cent , about 1.7 million in 1920 and 1921 , in a period when there was more industrial conflict than at any other rime in the inter-war years , other than in 1926 . |
| 26 | The Board of Education will not pay more than 20 per cent . |
| 27 | Though fascist candidates put forward a strong campaign in the London County Council elections of March 1937 , their six candidates for the three two-member divisions of Bethnal Green North East , Shoreditch and Limehouse were defeated and they received less than 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 28 | Friday 's uptick , leaving the index still close to its lowest level since January 1987 and more than 20 per cent down since the start of this year , was prompted by some old-style ‘ suasion ’ between the Ministry of Finance and the Big Four , Nomura , Nikko , Daiwa and Yamaichi . |
| 29 | Having won less than 20 per cent of the vote in the recent polls , the Socialists will have difficulty in finding partners within the National Assembly to help them pass legislation . |
| 30 | The three latest surveys — the third , by Audience Selection gave Labour 38 per cent , the Tories 35 and the Liberal Democrats 23 — give Mr Ashdown the support of more than 20 per cent of the electorate and suggest that his party is continuing to take support almost equally from Labour and the Conservatives , writes Anthony King . |