Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual concentration of an industry is hard to assess precisely and there are many different measures of it ( eg if we say that the five firm concentration ratio is 85 per cent , this means that the largest five firms in the industry control 85 per cent of the market ; a two firm concentration ratio of 100 per cent indicates that two firms completely dominate the market ) . |
| 2 | And despite the AIDS menace 20 per cent of the students questioned by Cosmopolitan magazine said they never used a condom . |
| 3 | If he is so right in offering the ambulance staff 6.5 per cent , if the ambulance staff are so unreasonable in rejecting it , what has he got to be so afraid of in going to arbitration which would end this dispute this afternoon ? |
| 4 | That is terribly important because under the council tax 85 per cent . |
| 5 | The gallery charges 25 per cent commission on sales , and 15 per cent on referred commissions , ( with higher rates for the work of non-members ) but although the showroom is successful , Cheryl Peterson is not greedy . |
| 6 | The 1906 Wages Census showed that in the cotton industry 27.2 per cent of male workers earned below 22/ per week and 41.6 per cent less than 25/ . |
| 7 | The Navy averages 13.2 per cent , but , if the nuclear deterrent average of 2.7 per cent is added , resources allotted to naval forces comes to 15.9 per cent , which is not far below the allocations to air and land forces . |
| 8 | In the action sub-samples ( Ipswich and Newham grouped together ) 57.7 per cent were at home at six months and 23.1 per cent at l2 months , but in the control sub-samples 66.7 per cent were at home at six months , and 40 per cent at 12 months . |
| 9 | A wider use of existing methods of contraception among non-users — and a reduction in the use of the IUD , which has a high failure rate — would pull down the abortion rate 46 per cent . |
| 10 | For those wanting monthly income , Town & Country again tops the bill offering 11.85 per cent on its Classic Account for sums of £25,000 or more . |
| 11 | There were certainly more people in the world who resembled the French , 88 per cent of whom in 1861 lived in the département of their birth — in the Lot département 97 per cent in the parish of their birth — than resembled more mobile and migratory populations . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has any plans to abolish the poll tax 20 per cent . |
| 13 | Back to our examples : it would be ‘ an act of vandalism ’ to weaken the top 20 arts clients , from Covent Garden down , who snaffle just over 50 per cent of all Arts Council and regional cash , while London and the south-east swallow 57 per cent of all funds . |
| 14 | Following the section assessment 84 per cent of males and 95 per cent of females were considered to suffer some kind of mental disorder . |
| 15 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 16 | The AP1-88 uses two propellers which have a tip speed 40 per cent less than that of the single unit on early SR.N6s . |
| 17 | This contrasts with the position for 1981 — 85 where in the 65 — 74 age group men have a mortality rate 87 per cent above their female counterparts ( see Table 3.2 ) . |
| 18 | The votes cast for each party are counted and the seats are allocated according to the proportion of votes each party receives — so a party polling 30 per cent of the votes would take 30 per cent of the seats . |
| 19 | Martell have substantially increased the prize money for the race to give a total prize fund of about £175,000 , this being an increase f three per cent over the previous year . |