Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the 1983 and 1987 elections the Conservatives averaged nearly 60 per cent and led Labour by 14.8 per cent and 11.5 per cent of the votes respectively in the two elections . |
| 2 | This was particularly so with the education professions and with low skilled industrial jobs where women made up 57 per cent and 23 per cent respectively of the total workforce but 79 per cent and 32 per cent respectively of the temporary workforce . |
| 3 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 4 | Between 1960 and 1981 , London lost 51 per cent of its manufacturing jobs , and the major conurbations 43 per cent , at a time when small towns lost only 1 per cent and rural areas actually gained 24 per cent . |
| 5 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 6 | The great depression of the 1930s during which unemployment never fell below nine per cent and at one point exceeded twenty-two per cent , meant that a large section of the population was dependent on insurance and assistance benefits . |
| 7 | At Chemical they went up 61 per cent and at Chase Manhattan by 84 per cent . |
| 8 | The Alliance was particularly successful in the industrial south , winning around 60 per cent of the vote in the five most southerly constituencies , whereas in East Berlin it won only 22 per cent and finished in third place . |
| 9 | The comprehensive schools , in a perfectly adjusted system , should have had 20 per cent of their pupils in the top 20 per cent of the ability range : in fact , they had only 15 per cent and one-quarter of the schools had less than 5 per cent . |
| 10 | Thus the workforces of Tate & Lyle and the docks had respectively 71.9 per cent and 59.8 per cent unskilled labour , compared to 31.1 per cent at the LNER . |