Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top of this , food eaten eight miles up needs extra seasoning because at altitude taste buds are only 70 per cent efficient . |
| 2 | In the northern temperate zone the values are about 50 per cent higher than these estimates , and in the southern temperate zone about 50 per cent lower . |
| 3 | CDs are therefore very similar to negotiable money market deposits , although the yields are about 0.25 per cent below the equivalent period deposit rates because of the added benefit of liquidity . |
| 4 | The outcome of this dietetic juggling was that although astaxanthin and vitamin A acid were ineffective , the other three compounds were almost 100 per cent successful at enabling diapause induction . |
| 5 | In very difficult trading circumstances , footwear exports in the past 12 months were up 11 per cent . |
| 6 | On that basis the number waiting over 12 months is now 27 per cent . |
| 7 | In the 1970s the total volume of transfers through these two channels was nearly 3 per cent of the social product of the more advanced republics and provinces , and even in the more difficult 1980s this ratio has amounted to almost 2½ per cent . |
| 8 | It is not surprising , in view of these figures , that surveys made in 1608 suggest that Crown rents were often 60 per cent below an economic rental . |
| 9 | Wage settlements were almost 6 per cent in the autumn of 1991 . |
| 10 | The percentage of added records that can not be held in these embedded overflow areas is about 10.26 per cent . |
| 11 | Suitable burners can be 60 per cent efficient — burning cow-dung cakes is only 11 per cent efficient . |
| 12 | The conviction rate for social security offences is approximately 95 per cent , mostly guilty pleas . |
| 13 | In general , dwellings in rural areas and conurbations are about 25 per cent more likely to be in poor condition than dwellings in provincial towns . |
| 14 | Amongst them bankruptcies are up 100 per cent . |
| 15 | While typical power stations are just 34 per cent efficient — converting most of their energy into heat lost to the air — CHP systems can reach 80 per cent efficiency . |
| 16 | Unveiling a three-year growth plan to raise sales progressively from an expected 5,000 houses this year to an eventual figure of 8,000 , he said reservations were up 15 per cent in the first three months of the year . |
| 17 | By 1984 the number of airlines had risen from 36 to 120 , fares were down 30 per cent , and passengers use was up 50 per cent . |
| 18 | As was clear in the original Warnock Report ( DES 1978 ) , however , the proportion of children who fall within the general definition of special educational needs is around 20 per cent . |
| 19 | ‘ The growth in lending in the year to August by Committee of Scottish and London Clearing Banks was only 27 per cent , and for Barclays it was only 10 per cent , ’ she said . |
| 20 | The proportion of women married below age 20 still childless after 20 years was about 2 per cent for women married in 1951 , 3 per cent for women married in 1956 . |
| 21 | The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other . |
| 22 | Today these figures are only 22 per cent and 39 per cent respectively , whilst support for visits from nuclear-armed ships has dropped from 47 to 24 per cent . |
| 23 | Although initial predictions were that 80 per cent of foot passengers and 70 per cent of car traffic would switch from ferries to Tunnel , recent estimates have been less enthusiastic . |
| 24 | The Nationalists were up seven per cent but ceded two of their five strongholds . |
| 25 | In East London where poverty was most heavily concentrated the figures were respectively 35 per cent and 13.3 per cent |
| 26 | Imports of consumer goods were up 19 per cent . |
| 27 | Imports of passenger cars over the three months rose only two per cent by volume , whilst imports of capital goods were down six per cent . |
| 28 | Since the long-run real growth rate in GDP in the UK is between 2.5 and 3 per cent , and if we additionally assume that the long-run inflation rate is 5 per cent , then a realistic estimate of the long-run nominal growth rate in earnings is around 8 per cent per annum . |
| 29 | Market penetration of answering machines is about six per cent , although research indicates 20 per cent of the population are considering purchasing one . |
| 30 | When we take longer working hours into account the differential widens still further as wages per productive hour in small Japanese firms is only 46 per cent of the sum paid in large firms . |