Example sentences of "and 20 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Balcerowicz said his policies would bring unemployment to between 10 and 20 per cent . |
| 2 | Prices in some areas have dropped by between 10 and 20 per cent this year and the number of sales has been half last year 's . |
| 3 | According to finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz , architect of the new economic plan , between 10 and 20 per cent of the 7m-strong Polish workforce stand to lose their jobs through cutting inefficient industries as well as reducing the army and police . |
| 4 | In the pre-campaign week , the effect of political interest on public awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock was 36 per cent and 45 per cent , respectively ; but by the last fortnight of the campaign its effect had fallen to 17 per cent and 20 per cent respectively . |
| 5 | A rise of between 17 and 20 per cent was agreed , amounting to £64 a week , a dramatic demonstration of workers ' power . |
| 6 | The commission on records is between 15 and 20 per cent , while on publishing I got 15 per cent until Mark Knopfler voluntarily put it up to 20 per cent . |
| 7 | The group has invested heavily in building up its Mercury business in the UK and is also committed to the expansion of its PCN business but the disposal of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent of Hong Kong Telecom will allay concerns about the group 's funding requirements . |
| 8 | The Soviet Union is said to contain more than 1000 towns where its own permissible levels of atmospheric pollution are exceeded five-fold or more and 20 per cent of the population live in what the head of the Academy of Sciences ' biology institute calls ‘ ecological disaster zones ’ . |
| 9 | The EC does not believe that recognition will be a panacea for Bosnia , the tinderbox of the First World War and a patchwork of warring groups made up of 60 per cent Muslims , 30 per cent Serbs and 20 per cent Croats . |
| 10 | The potential for the epidemic to spread is underlined by a survey among black schoolchildren in Cape Town which revealed that 70 per cent of 16-year-olds were sexually active , and 20 per cent had several partners in the past year . |
| 11 | Ninety per cent of the cost of major defects under the NHBC warranty scheme , and 20 per cent of all building maintenance arises from faults in foundation design and construction . |
| 12 | There are plans to enlist students who can already handle computers — about 50 per cent of California 's high schools and 20 per cent of its elementary schools already have computers . |
| 13 | But , with rental companies such as Britain 's Thorn-EMI backing the Japanese VHS system , the market share for Europe 's only manufacturer of recorders is still around 5 per cent in Britain and 20 per cent in Western Europe as a whole . |
| 14 | The Electricity Privatisation Bill states that working up to the year 2000 supply companies must buy between 15 and 20 per cent of their energy from non-fossil fuel resources . |
| 15 | If 40 per cent of A , 60 per cent of B and 20 per cent of C produced are exported , this involves maximising |
| 16 | This is because the true fracture stress at the crack tip is presumably the theoretical strength of the material and this generally lies between 10 and 20 per cent of the Young 's modulus , E ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 17 | The Newsons ( 1965 ) in Nottingham in the late 1950s similarly found 83 per cent of mothers potting their babies before 1 year , with 63 per cent starting before 8 months , and 20 per cent in the first days after birth . |
| 18 | In the youngest age group , 65–69 years , most elderly people are living with their spouse , 37 per cent as one of a married couple whose partner is over 65 , and 20 per cent with a partner under 65 . |
| 19 | Even so , the industry had to cut off between 10 and 20 per cent of peak loads in these winters , despite attempts to reduce the peak demand by less drastic means . |
| 20 | The experimental 100MW sets were expected to burn 9 per cent less fuel per unit of electricity generated than the standard 60MW sets and 20 per cent less than the 30MW sets ; their capital costs were 6 per cent lower than 60MW sets and 23 per cent lower than 30MW sets . |
| 21 | Between 1961 and 1985 men and women aged 65 — 74 years have recorded life expectancy increases of 11 per cent and 14 per cent respectively ; for those aged 85 + the increases are 8 per cent for men and 20 per cent for women . |
| 22 | Increases necessary to meet the new rate demands were limited to 15 per cent each year for smaller businesses and 20 per cent each year for larger businesses . |
| 23 | Finally , up to one in five heroin users in treatment was regularly or occasionally injecting the drug-15 per cent of those known to the Drugs Council and 20 per cent of those known to the Detoxification Unit , compared to an overall figure of 12 per cent in the first survey . |
| 24 | According to the National Readership Survey in 1987 nearly 40 per cent of adults claimed to ‘ skip ’ ads in normal TV viewing ‘ almost always ’ or ‘ quite often ’ , and 20 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ did so when watching a recorded video programme . |
| 25 | In the 1982 survey ( Brown , 1984 ) , the results of which provide much of the recent information about the black community in Britain , the unemployment rates are 13 per cent for whites , 25 per cent for West Indians , and 20 per cent for Asians , although there are large differences within the Asian group . |
| 26 | However , the European Commission has estimated that for most countries this budget accounts for between 10 and 20 per cent of GDP ( Evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities , 1987/8 HL 72 , p. 17 ) . |
| 27 | In Herefordshire , between 1951 and 1971 Hereford Rural District grew by 10 per cent as a result of expansion in the nearby city , and the remainder of the rural districts lost population at rates ranging between 3.8 and 20 per cent ( Dunn 1976 ) . |
| 28 | Figures produced by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders ( NACRO , 1990b ) indicate that in terms of annual receptions , magistrates ' courts were responsible for 45 per cent of those sentenced to immediate custody in 1988 , compared with 55 per cent for the Crown Court — in spite of the fact that very many more indictable offenders are tried and convicted in magistrates ' courts than in the Crown Court ( 90 per cent and 20 per cent respectively ) . |
| 29 | The rock mixture is 80% tufa rock and 20 per cent living rock . |
| 30 | Grade 1 is overweight , usually between 10 and 20 per cent above the ideal weight ; grades 2 and 3 are regarded as obese — more than 20 per cent above the ideal weight . |