Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost . |
| 2 | From 1985 onwards , there was a considerable drop in the resources allocated to education , which , by 1987 , amounted to 2.8 per cent of GDP , down from over 4 per cent in 1983 . |
| 3 | However , despite these controls and a general reduction in the proportion of local-government expenditure emanating from central government ( down from over 60 per cent of spending in the 1970s to well under 50 per cent in the following decade ) the Conservative governments elected in 1983 and 1987 decided to continue the process . |
| 4 | The caramel and crisped wheat milk chocolate bar , looks , costs and tastes like a regular bar , but carbohydrate constitutes about 60 per cent , with fat down to around 30 per cent . |
| 5 | The Safeway supermarket says that , thanks to the economics of increased demand , the price premium charged on organic meat is now down to around 10-15 per cent , compared with 30 per cent 18 months ago . |
| 6 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 7 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 8 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 9 | We slow down to about 14 per cent at this stage . |
| 10 | The plan estimates the costs of implementation in some detail — about 3 per cent of national income up to 1994 , settling down to about 2 per cent by 2010 . |
| 11 | But today , says Carl Schlettwein of the Ministry of Fisheries , ‘ pilchard stocks are down to about 15 per cent of their full potential and hake to about 20 per cent . ’ |
| 12 | With the discount moving down to about 20 per cent by mid-1990 , others may be similarly tempted even though the discount rate reflects some measure of the depreciated economic value of the assets . |
| 13 | Ostensibly agriculture has a fine record — between 1961 and 1973 labour productivity bounded along at over 7 per cent per annum , though overall growth of output at just under 3 per cent was less impressive [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 14 | Between the ages of 25 and 29 , the annual remarriage rates per 1,000 divorced men was 136 in 1989 , down by over 70 per cent from 1971 figure of 503 . |
| 15 | For women , the number was down by over 60 per cent to 142 from 364 . |
| 16 | The number of populars ( excluding the Daily Worker/Morning Star , which fitted easily into neither category ) was six in each year , but total circulation was down by nearly 10 per cent . |
| 17 | Huge cuts in EPA 's research Funds ( down by nearly 50 per cent since Reagan took office ) can perhaps be justified on the grounds that , in hard times , scientific priorities can be temporarily reshuffled with little or no long-term damage . |
| 18 | THE London stock market is down by about 8 per cent from this year 's peak . |
| 19 | NORTH WEST ‘ Properties costing over £100,000 have come down by about 20 per cent , semis by about ten per cent and terraces by about five per cent , ’ says Clive Watkin of the Clive Watkin Partnership on the Wirral , Merseyside . |
| 20 | Figures for juvenile crime in England and Wales have in fact fallen dramatically in the past ten years , with convictions and cautions for boys aged 10-16 down by almost 50 per cent since 1981 and similarly for girls between 10 and 13 . |
| 21 | Their overall support was down by almost 20 per cent . |
| 22 | Cleary secured 34 per cent of the first preference vote , compared with 29 per cent for the ALP ( down by almost 20 per cent compared with 1990 ) and 27 per cent for the Liberals ( down by 6 per cent ) . |
| 23 | The bureau said that despite flooding the summer grain harvest was down by only 1.8 per cent , although " severe " economic losses were expected in the second half . |
| 24 | On past experience , a 15 per cent devaluation could be expected to feed through at roughly 3 per cent a year for five years , and if this is repeated , it is still far too soon to say that inflationary expectations have been beaten out of the economy . |
| 25 | We start off at about 85 per cent maximum speed . |
| 26 | The budget assumed that GDP would grow by between 0 and 3 per cent in 1993 , the first increase since 1989 ; that unemployment , which reached 11.9 per cent of the labour force in November , would remain high ; and that inflation , which had fallen from 38.6 per cent to 20.1 per cent from mid-year 1991 to 1992 , would level off at around 21 per cent . |
| 27 | But since we installed the system , it 's dropped off by about three per cent . |
| 28 | Local authority money is made up of around 48 per cent in grants from the government , 35 per cent from rates and 6 per cent from rents , the remainder being from interest , dividends and borrowing . |
| 29 | If no one took up the rights issue , Corporate could end up with nearly 29 per cent of the shares , but a 20 per cent stake is more likely . |
| 30 | I understand that they got 36.5 per cent of the total shareholding in the end , but Purchase and Szell say that they 'll be unloading some of those and that they 'll probably end up with about 20 per cent . |