Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first piece of silliness : Comet already has 8.8 per cent and Dixons has almost 18 per cent — quite enough when merged to breach the 25 per cent ceiling which triggers a Monopolies Commission inquiry . |
| 2 | The Port of Larne handles almost 100 per cent of Northern Ireland 's tourist car and sea passenger traffic and 75 per cent of roll on/roll off freight . |
| 3 | In regional elections on March 22 the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) of President François Mitterrand polled only 18.3 per cent of the vote in metropolitan France , compared with 29.88 per cent at the last regional elections in 1986 . |
| 4 | DLP members won 49 per cent of the 4,304 seats ; the largely pro-government independent candidates received 32.4 per cent ; and the PPD won only 18.8 per cent . |
| 5 | In 1991 , the NYOS earned nearly 60 per cent from sponsorship , compared to an average of 41 per cent for youth orchestras , while the SCO raised around 17 per cent of its income from the same source , double the national average of 8 per cent . |
| 6 | They show that in 1988 , Dixons had almost 18 per cent of the electrical market , Comet 7.6 per cent and Lasky — whose 58 outlets are now owned by Kingfisher — 1.2 per cent . |
| 7 | They show that in 1988 , Dixons had almost 18 per cent of the electrical market , Comet 7.6 per cent and Lasky — whose 58 outlets are now owned by Kingfisher — 1.2 per cent . |
| 8 | Iceland has about forty per cent of the land area of the UK , but a population of only 250,000 . |
| 9 | Control of the councils remained unchanged , with the ruling PNP gaining about 60 per cent of the total vote and winning 12 councils ; the opposition JLP retained control of St Thomas . |
| 10 | Bupa has about 60 per cent of the private health insurance market . |
| 11 | According to figures published in Le Monde , Denmark recycles nearly 85 per cent of its paper , well ahead of the United Kingdom , Germany , Italy and France , which recycle between 45 and 60 per cent . |
| 12 | In another case , Department of Employment data for the Western Isles of Scotland showed only 26.4 per cent of the population in employment , compared to 42 per cent for Scotland as a whole , and clearly this discrepancy is largely due to the definitional problems outlined above . |
| 13 | So far , the most successful renewable energy plants have been the ten hydro electric stations in Scotland providing around 2 per cent of the country 's electricity . |
| 14 | By the turn of the century , the central industrial area around Moscow , the north-western area around St Petersburg , the major cities of Poland , and the Ukraine employed over 60 per cent of all workers . |
| 15 | Total spending on the NHS represented about 4 per cent of the gross domestic product in 1948 , and rose to 6 per cent by 1990 , stabilising in the 1980s . |
| 16 | It paid well enough , especially the small link from the Somerset coalfield , but as Dyos and Aldcroft point out , at their busiest the inland waterways of southern England carried only 15 per cent of total traffic and never rewarded those who invested in them in the way those of the industrial Midlands and north did . |
| 17 | By the end of the 1980s , the sector had developed , with the aid of foreign partners and technology , to the point where Embraer claimed nearly 40 per cent of the world regional airliner market . |
| 18 | Zaire supplies about 51 per cent of the world 's cobalt , followed by neighbouring Zambia ( 14 per cent ) and the former Soviet bloc countries ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 19 | Pentos has about 6 per cent of the market , selling £60 million worth of books a year . |
| 20 | In 1958 , according to the same calculations , the Soviet Union influenced 31 per cent of the world 's population and 9 per cent of the world 's GNP ( excluding the USSR itself ) ; by 1979 the USSR influenced only 6 per cent of the world 's population and only 5 per cent of the world 's GNP , again excluding the USSR itself . |
| 21 | The ISE holds nearly 8 per cent of world domestic equity capitalisation however ( Table 11.8 ) . |
| 22 | In these problem areas , the UK contributed around 20 per cent of the sulphur , over half as much again as any other country . |
| 23 | Pre-tax profits in the three months to end-December rose just 4.4 per cent to £236 million from £226 million in the same period last year . |
| 24 | Between 1908 and 1912 the school medical officer for Batley found only 40.2 per cent of schoolchildren free from medical defects other than the endemic bad teeth . |
| 25 | In 1991 , the NYOS earned nearly 60 per cent from sponsorship , compared to an average of 41 per cent for youth orchestras , while the SCO raised around 17 per cent of its income from the same source , double the national average of 8 per cent . |
| 26 | Israel consumes about 2140 kWh/year per capita , compared with a world average of 1285 kWh/year and an American average of 11 000 kWh/year . |
| 27 | South Africa earns about 40 per cent of its export income from gold but produces only one-third of the world 's supplies . |
| 28 | A Gallup Poll in August found only 31 per cent support for the United States with 49 per cent against . |
| 29 | Kinnock scored only 61 per cent in the pre-campaign week — the same as his average score across all image aspects . |
| 30 | The Liberal Democrat candidate Paul Clark obtained 36 per cent of the vote on July 4 , while the Conservative candidate Berkeley Greenwood obtained only 2.8 per cent . |