Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using conventional x-ray films , a bone loss of some 30 per cent would be needed before a clinician could be sure that changes had occurred . |
| 2 | The interchange of routes between operators complicates analysis , but operators in South Wales also appear to have made a net loss of some 12 per cent of mileage since 1939 . |
| 3 | My plans for 1992-93 provide for an overall increase in my education programme of some 15 per cent . |
| 4 | Based on figures calculated for the united Yemen throughout 1990 , the budget forecast a deficit reduction of some 27 per cent during 1991 , with a 43 per cent increase in revenue and an increase in expenditure of only 10 per cent . |
| 5 | This should lead to an initial reduction of some 11 per cent in crop production , and the group hope that in the long run , cuts of up to 20 per cent could be achieved . |
| 6 | Radio Investments has taken its stake in Kent-based radio station Invicta Sound to 10.47 per cent through the purchase of another 1.39 per cent . |
| 7 | Phyllis Starkey , you 've mentioned earlier that this will cause hardship to people , this huge rent rise of thirty nine per cent . |
| 8 | While the country as a whole had a a rise of twenty two per cent last year . |
| 9 | In 1991 these totalled £16.9 billion showing a healthy rise of some 10 per cent on 1990 . |
| 10 | Sixty per cent of the patented innovations in the sample were imitated within 4 years , and patents caused a median rise of some 11 per cent in the ratio of imitation to innovation costs . |
| 11 | Police salaries adjusted for inflation went up from 983 million in 1979 when the Conservatives came to power , to 2,378 million by 1987 , a rise of some 47 per cent in real terms . |
| 12 | With some votes still to be counted , the coalition had won around 44 per cent of the 3,600,000 votes cast , a fall in support of some 5 per cent compared with the election of 1988 . |
| 13 | From my own observation the majority of thirty four per cent is heavy traffic we have the additional problem that the shops in Saint Mary 's Street , with the majority of shops in Saint Mary 's Street , that is the main street , have no rear accesses . |
| 14 | This " radical " group had ceased to be the predominant voice in other political institutions — such as the Council of Guardians and the Assembly of Experts — but had continued to command a majority of some 60 per cent in the outgoing Majlis . |
| 15 | The majority of this 60 per cent will remain at the base of the hierarchy , forming strong interpersonal relationships with their friends ; and , contrary to a common assumption , they do not seek the sorts of ego-gratifying goals that the executive class seeks . |
| 16 | The usual hard core of some 22 per cent insisted that Britain and the United States should " always stick together " , while another 52 per cent ( though favouring selective co-operation ) were anxious to protect British independence and freedom of choice . |
| 17 | But sales of £4,930 million showed a fall of 1 1/2 per cent . |
| 18 | Those sales have shown a considerable overall decline since the late 1970s , with a fall of some 30 per cent in value following 1979 . |
| 19 | The questions that appear not to have been officially asked are to what extent will the projected gains accrue to areas already experiencing relative prosperity ; to what extent will these gains involve reductions in prosperity in underdeveloped/unfavoured regions and whether a transfer of some 4 per cent of the " net " gains is sufficient to compensate for such losses . |
| 20 | By the end of September the lira rate against the deutschmark was about 876 , representing a further devaluation of some 8.5 per cent compared with the central rate set on Sept. 13 . |
| 21 | That 's a factor of something like three hundred per cent than it , than it ought to be in terms of inflation and the County Treasurer 's budget of plus five per cent which is well in excess of two hundred per cent . |
| 22 | Of the staff employed in universities at the beginning of 1854 50 per cent had left their posts by the end of 1862 . |
| 23 | In 1989 the average prison population for England and Wales stood at 48,600 , a drop of some 3 per cent ( 1,350 ) over 1988 . |
| 24 | I 'll tell you what then , we 've got the two options , we 've got the one area of this five per cent where |
| 25 | With a response rate of seventy eight per cent the A D F F survey reveals that in eighty two per cent of the eighty four authorities that replied , budget reductions were planned and in a further eight per cent a standstill budget was expected . |
| 26 | Traditional Burmese culture centred upon the monasteries , found in every village and town , so that in the 1920s more than half the males in Burma were literate in their mother tongue ( compared to a literacy rate of 13. 9 per cent in India ) . |
| 27 | This is a drop in the ocean for a country of around four million people with an illiteracy rate of some 80 per cent . |
| 28 | There was an annual growth rate of some 4 per cent , while inflation continued to fall . |
| 29 | Though Arabs did emigrate to Egypt , the large majority of the population was unchanged , and indeed a significant minority of some 10 per cent remained committed Copts . |
| 30 | The United States is unique in the advanced countries of the West in maintaining a level of church attendance of closer to fifty per cent than the European norm of some fifteen per cent or less . |