Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's Economic Survey of Japan for 1952 noted that the products of heavy industry were typically 30–40 per cent more expensive than in other countries , because of high materials costs and low productivity . |
| 2 | Can find the volume of a 3-D cuboid given a 2-D representation Most of the success rates for items exemplifying this criterion were around 40 per cent . |
| 3 | He claimed that the actual increase in numbers of cases granted legal aid was only 5 per cent this year — from 271,759 to 288,000 — and cited a Scottish Office report on spending plans which forecast a peak in claims in 1992-93 , followed by a decline . |
| 4 | In fact , so vital are the French nutcrackers to the French walnut industry that in 1981 , when the crop in the south-west was only 5 per cent of the normal crop , nuts in their shells were imported from California and India to keep the crackers going . |
| 5 | While figures for the year showed an increase in real growth of 2.9 per cent , business investment was down 3 per cent , consumer spending down 0.1 per cent and the growth elements appeared only to be in home purchases and government spending . |
| 6 | In the Thames Valley last year the detection rate for car theft was just thirteen per cent , down from 20 per cent two years ago . |
| 7 | The Russian Central Bank ( RCB ) said on Sept. 25 that budgeted revenue was only 40 per cent of that forecast for 1992 . |
| 8 | In 1922 on average throughout European Russia and Siberia the percentage of peasant households without a plough was about 23 per cent . |
| 9 | Turnover was up 10 per cent , to £1.5 billion , with 19,000 employees currently undergoing formal training — another record figure . |
| 10 | Turnover was up 10.1 per cent to £125m . |
| 11 | Turnover was up 37 per cent to £9.6m . |
| 12 | Foreign trade turnover was up 4.7 per cent overall ; that with socialist countries fell slightly but exports to and imports from the industrialized West rose 7.6 per cent and 23.6 per cent respectively , to 26,000 million and 26,800 million roubles . |
| 13 | During the full nine months period , pre-tax profits rose 5.8 per cent to $47.4m and turnover was up 17.7 per cent to $533.5m . |
| 14 | Turnover was up ten per cent a t£2.1 billion and pre-tax profits increased 21 per cent to £256m … = ’ |
| 15 | Turnover was up 2 per cent to £23163m . |
| 16 | Retail turnover was up 28 per cent , and in some branches , such as vehicles and electrical goods , by more than half . |
| 17 | Turnover was down 36.5 per cent to $115.9m . |
| 18 | Mr Livingstone 's vote was down 30 per cent compared with last year ; but all other left-wing candidates lost votes , too . |
| 19 | In October 1988 , a 25 per cent drop in ozone levels was measured by the total ozone monitoring spectrometer ( TOMS ) on board the Nimbus-7 satellite , while in October 1987 and 1990 the depletion was about 55 per cent . |
| 20 | Serious crime was up 42.4 per cent , with violent armed crime against individuals especially prevalent . |
| 21 | They showed that in the year to June reported crime was almost four per cent higher than in the previous twelve months . |
| 22 | A 1975/6 random daytime survey for the Department of the Environment revealed that over 7 per cent of the tapwater in England exceeded the EC limit while in Scotland the figure was over 34 per cent . |
| 23 | By 1945 the figure was just 8 per cent . |
| 24 | Last year , the figure was about 25 per cent . |
| 25 | If senior management figures are considered , about three per cent ( 52 out of 1000 ) are women ; five years ago the figure was only one per cent . |
| 26 | In March 1989 a set of directives on economic relations between the USSR and its constituent republics was published , which called for the transfer of up to 36 per cent of industrial production to local control ( the existing figure was only 5 per cent ) , with much higher levels — up to 72 per cent — in Georgia and the Baltic republics . |
| 27 | In every one of the 13 Inner London Boroughs the population decrease exceeded 10 per cent between 1971 and 1981 ; in Kensington and Chelsea the actual decrease was almost 29 per cent . |
| 28 | For example , Japan recorded decreases in overall stroke mortality for both men and women of about 50 per cent between 1972 and 1982 ; in England and Wales the decrease was about 35 per cent over the same period ( Smith and Jacobson 1988 ) . |
| 29 | For sub-divisions into broad age-groups within Districts the average error was about five per cent . |
| 30 | Moreover , since unit costs actually rose less in the United States than in competing countries over the same period , the improvement in US cost competitiveness was actually 27 per cent on average . |