Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] per cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although at present nuclear power generation contributes only 0.1 per cent of the total global radiation dose commitment , much public concern has been expressed on the potential local and regional effects of accidental releases of radioactive material . |
| 2 | The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Planting Survey shows that the variety contributes only 2.5 per cent of total area of Barley under cultivation in the Eastern Counties ( down from 6 per cent in 1990 ) , 0.5 per cent in the South and South West ( down from 0.8 per cent ) and 0.5 per cent in the Midlands down from 1.4 per cent . |
| 3 | Since this represents only one per cent of projected capacity , it will not be of significant help in meeting concern over weapons production . |
| 4 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 5 | The 1970 total represents only 2½ per cent of OECD GDP , a slightly smaller proportion than in 1958 . |
| 6 | The post office has a monopoly only on the delivery of letters and parcels weighing less than a kilogram — a decling trade and one that now represents only 40 per cent of total earnings although attempts to stop the drift by creating , for example , specialised services for direct marketing have been very successful . |
| 7 | However , the dependent wife receives only 60 per cent of the single person 's pension — a fact that reflects not only the dependent status of married women but also the failure of the social security system to adapt to the increase in economic activity ( particularly in part-time jobs ) among women since the Beveridge scheme was introduced . |
| 8 | Even Fig. 14 , for the Simple model , has only 6.5 per cent of squares with absolute differences greater than 1000 but , as might be expected , the range is now from -3506 to +11 204 . |
| 9 | At the same time the programme will underline the low fat/health benefits including the claim that lean turkey meat has only 50 per cent of the fat of chicken . |
| 10 | This characterizes the prey assemblages of the three larger species of canid studied , but the bat-eared fox has only 19 per cent of the incisors in its prey assemblages lightly digested , the lowest of any of the mammals and making it equivalent to categories 1 or 2 . |
| 11 | At the other end of the scale , one of the poorer vegetable sources of fibre is cucumber , which contains only 0.4 per cent of dietary fibre and tends to be consumed in modest servings . |
| 12 | The actual hardware , the turbine blades , covers only 2.3 per cent of the area exposed to the wind . |
| 13 | AMP has approximately 30 per cent of the life insurance and superannuation markets in Australia and is the largest manager of private retirement funds in that country and New Zealand . |
| 14 | He is John Talbot , of accountants Arthur Andersen , who as administrator of the bankrupt Maxwell family empire holds nearly 55 per cent of the Mirror Group 's shares . |
| 15 | The ISE holds nearly 8 per cent of world domestic equity capitalisation however ( Table 11.8 ) . |
| 16 | Coniston Partners , the New York investment group which holds nearly 12 per cent of UAL , has given the board until January 8 to come up with an alternative to the $6.75billion buyout which failed to take off in October . |
| 17 | Drawn up by the Advertising Association , the new code covers about 90 per cent of the companies that use direct mail . |
| 18 | Pentos has about 6 per cent of the market , selling £60 million worth of books a year . |
| 19 | Bupa has about 60 per cent of the private health insurance market . |
| 20 | Iceland has about forty per cent of the land area of the UK , but a population of only 250,000 . |
| 21 | The company has about 3 per cent of the UK chocolate market , as well as subsidiaries in France and Italy . |
| 22 | Over-packaging adds about ten per cent to our weekly shopping bill . |
| 23 | A typical andesite is light grey in colour , contains about 60 per cent of silica ( silicon dioxide ) and has a conspicuous number of small white crystals , a few millimetres across , scattered throughout a fine-grained homogeneous matrix . |
| 24 | The medium edition , which is available in various languages , contains about 30 per cent of the total tables . |
| 25 | Knowledge of the currents is important to scientists studying the ebb and flow of the Antarctic ice sheet which contains about 90 per cent of the world 's ice . |
| 26 | Hyssop contains almost one per cent of an essential oil whose medicinal action is very similar to that of garden sage . |
| 27 | This should not be taken too literally — not every rock in the crust is a granite — things like limestones are vastly different in composition — but the average composition of all the rocks on the continents is about that of granite and contains over 60 per cent of silica . |
| 28 | Posters are now graded according to the OSCAR system , which covers over 90 per cent of roadside posters . |
| 29 | Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland continue to enjoy annual funding at around £15 million each — but in England , which receives approximately 90 per cent of the volume and value of tourism , Government seems set on a course of pruning ETB 's grant from around £9 million currently to only £2 million a year for national activities by 1995/96 . |
| 30 | The average man 's ejaculate contains an estimated 200,000,000 sperm , although this represents just two per cent of the total ejaculate ; the other ninety-eight per cent consists of the mucus-like semen . |