Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is just 3 per cent of the world installed base and only 11 per cent of the installed base in Europe . |
| 2 | This is around 10 per cent . |
| 3 | This is about 4 per cent for HG92 , which is comparable with the ratio of the average baryonic density , derived through models of cosmological nucleosynthesis , to the critical density . |
| 4 | On average this is about 33 per cent , although it ranges up to about 60 per cent in the case of Italy , and is over 40 per cent for Britain , France and the United States . |
| 5 | For men this is about 3 per cent and has remained constant . |
| 6 | According to Craig and Chou , it is already contributing 0.23°C to mean global temperatures through the greenhouse effect , and this is almost 40 per cent of the possible ( but not yet confirmed ) effect of carbon dioxide today . |
| 7 | This is only 8 per cent of total Volvo car production worldwide , and five times more cars are still assembled on traditional lines at Gothenburg . |
| 8 | It sounds impressive , but this is only 2–15 per cent of the present annual increase , and it is pure guesswork how much of the termite production represents an increase caused by deforestation . |
| 9 | This was nearly 50 per cent higher than the latest official statistics for the prison that I was able to obtain : on 31 December 1987 , just over a year earlier , there had been a population of 405 . |
| 10 | The parish register from 1 January 1813 to 31 December 1817 records the occupations of 74 men , of whom 51 ( that is nearly 70 per cent ) were framework knitters ; the rest comprised 12 labourers , 2 woolcombers , 2 blacksmiths , a framesmith , a farmer and grazier , a publican , a gardener , a tailor , a brick mason and a soldier . |
| 11 | However , nearly six million women are ‘ significantly obese ’ ( that is about 20 per cent or more about their ideal weight ) . |
| 12 | that 's about five per cent on the current six million pound allocation , which alone is based on free school meals , should make a future upon the special needs audit . |