Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glasgow , Manchester and Liverpool all lost more than 15 per cent and even free-standing cities such as Nottingham and Hull were losing around 5 per cent . |
| 2 | ‘ They were losing about 10 per cent of their profit by not claiming back the tax , and no Japanese businessman does that . ’ |
| 3 | A change of government produced a temporary halt , when Labour , who returned in February 1974 , stopped further expansion until after the Annan inquiry , But under the Thatcher Government new franchises were again allocated and by 1988 46 ILR stations were covering about 85 per cent of the UK population . |
| 4 | A 24-hour general strike called by the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE ) in support of 19 per cent pay rises — state and private employers were offering about 9 per cent — mobilized more than 1,000,000 workers and disrupted public transport , flights , hospitals and electricity services on Jan. 25 . |
| 5 | ‘ In the early days I 'd say David was writing about 90 per cent of the songs . |
| 6 | A family earning the respectable artisan wage of 35s. per week was paying only 5.27 per cent in taxes and contributions , 3.65 per cent of this in indirect taxes . |
| 7 | A millionaire paying an 83 per cent tax rate on all taxable income except the first 54 000 1978–79 was paying only 40 per cent per cent in 1990 91 . |
| 8 | I was doing about 90 per cent of the jobs . |
| 9 | In the early sixties , the United States was spending roughly 2¾ per cent of GDP on research and development ( R and D ) as compared with 1.5–2 per cent in continental Europe and Japan . |
| 10 | By 1985 , for example , Japan was making about 60 per cent of the total world output of colour television tubes . |
| 11 | Having consolidated his base , he launched an aggressive drive that led to the take-over of Newcastle Breweries and several smaller Edinburgh companies to form Scottish & Newcastle , which by the time he retired as chairman in 1969 was supplying about 10 per cent of British beer sales . |