Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1983 general election , only 23 women won seats in the House of Commons but out of a total of 635 , so that only 3.5 per cent of MPs were female . |
| 2 | By 1971 there had been a further reduction in this proportion , so that only 4.3 per cent of the population lived beyond what may be considered practical limits for commuting to metropolitan labour market centres . |
| 3 | Accordingly they forecast a decline in demand in the thirteen years after 1982/83 of around 25 per cent rather than around 35 per cent as implied by the general demographic decline ( see Jones , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | Ten per cent of Britons profess to eating meat only rarely and nearly 50 per cent agreed that they much less than they used to . |
| 5 | Notes : All members of this group can be expected to be aged 60 or more and approximately 66 per cent female . |
| 6 | list 1 topic Guide to performance of top third Vulgar and decimal fractions 48 per cent compared fractions correctly and around ten per cent compared decimals correctly ( pp.50,51 ) ; 33 per cent wrote 0.4 as a fraction ( p.52 ) ; 50 per cent correctly wrote " ½ " as a decimal ( p.53 ) ; 35 per cent correctly divided 56 by 10 ( p.52 ) . |
| 7 | Of course she feels strongly that as 65 per cent of women in Britain are actually larger than size 14 , clothing manufacturers ignore them at their peril . |
| 8 | Two-thirds of a random sample of 54 of those with tinnitus showed that they found it disturbing , 72 per cent experienced it continuously , 18.5 per cent frequently and only 9.25 per cent occasionally . |
| 9 | Here , similar classes were emerging but only about 10 per cent were able to employ wage labour regularly and only 20 per cent provided it regularly . |
| 10 | Most strikingly , fully 57 per cent of module failures occurred in term 3 , even though only 38 per cent of assessments occurred in that term . |