Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are great regional variations in house prices , illustrated by the fact that in the London borough of Barnet 1 per cent . |
| 2 | TL typically produces an error term of plus/minus 5–10 per cent of the age , i.e. plus/minus 50–100 years for a TL age of 1000 years , plus/minus 100-200 years for 2000 years , and so on . |
| 3 | In the case of Treasury 9¾ per cent stock 2002 the redemption yield , at end-February 1992 , was 9.27% . |
| 4 | Mr Tennant said : ‘ In the case of Burnfoot 100 per cent of hill land will be given over to forestry . |
| 5 | Farmers are now able to reclaim from the Ministry of Agriculture 50 per cent of the cost of providing hedges , gates and stiles . |
| 6 | Common measure of rate 57 per cent worked out , using a calculator , how many gallons of petrol will be used by a car travelling 280 miles at 30 mpg ( p.61 ) . |
| 7 | Vocabulary of triangles 50 per cent could name an isosceles triangle and 33 per cent could draw one on a Quadrilaterals squared grid ( p.79 ) . |
| 8 | The National Council for the Aged in the Republic of Ireland reports that in a sample of schoolchildren 62 per cent felt they had a friendly relationship with older people in general . |
| 9 | and a growth rate of plus 4 per cent . |
| 10 | Britain 's largest building society , the Halifax , offered a Fixed Rate Mortgage at APR 14.9 per cent fixed for a full two years , after which monthly repayments reverted to their normal variable rate of APR 16.8 per cent . |
| 11 | and a growth rate of minus 2.5 per cent . |
| 12 | That compared with a continuing slight downward trend in the rest of the UK and , coupled with the year-on-year trend of minus one per cent and minus 1.6 per cent for the whole of the UK , suggested a resurgence North of the Border ahead of the rest . |
| 13 | The disastrous years for the British economy , measured in terms of change in real wealth , were 1990 , 1991 and 1992 ( ‘ growth ’ for 1992 is now estimated at around minus 2.0 per cent as opposed to the Treasury 's original forecast of plus 1 per cent ) . |
| 14 | In the third year of life 40 per cent of children who are still wet achieve dryness at night . |
| 15 | In the first year of operation 87 per cent of the applications were agreed by the parks without question and a further 12 per cent following modification . |
| 16 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 17 | At this time of year 20 per cent are on holiday , leaving 10 per cent . |
| 18 | According to preliminary results , the Adzharian regional organization of the Round Table Free Georgia bloc won 48 per cent of votes cast ; the Adzharian Electoral Bloc 19 per cent ; and the Adzharian Organization of the Independent Communist Party of Georgia 18 per cent ; 60 per cent of the electorate voted and elections were to be repeated in 24 of 40 constituencies , with a second round of voting in 11 . |