Example sentences of "[vb past] only [prep] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite rising interest rates , debt interest rose only from 2¼ per cent of personal income in 1952 to 2½ per cent in 1973 . |
| 2 | On Wednesday , the Financial Times published a survey of business leaders which showed that 94 per cent intended to vote for the Conservatives , although it showed only about one per cent thought the Tories had fought the most effective election campaign . |
| 3 | Indeed , instead of declining , the effect of political interest on awareness of ‘ other ’ Conservative politicians actually rose from 32 per cent to 37 per cent between the Pre-Campaign Wave and the end of the campaign , and its effect on awareness of ‘ other ’ Labour politicians declined only from 38 per cent to 34 per cent . |
| 4 | Later , it became clear that this material , despite its potency , contained only about 1 per cent of pure penicillin and that it was almost entirely composed of material which was not penicillin . |
| 5 | Even here , manufacturing 's share of production , of ‘ gross domestic product ’ , fell only from 30 per cent in the period 1961 to 1976 to 25 per cent in 1984 ( Harris , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , perhaps the most startling statistic contained in it was that some one-third of the rail route mileage carried only about 1 per cent of the freight and passenger traffic , while one-half of the route mileage accounted for only 4 to 5 per cent of total traffic . |