Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 2 | The increase in tax rates for higher earners , which would follow a Labour victory on Thursday , would then be comparable to the top tax rate across the Irish Sea , which this month is to be reduced below 50 per cent . |
| 3 | Government advisers said the public element of the offer was four times subscribed , ensuring that shares allocated for foreign investors were ‘ clawed back ’ for private applicants , who will now be allocated virtually 30 per cent of the entire sale . |
| 4 | So it 's got to put up it 's got ta be put up eight per cent , I can tell you that . |
| 5 | Zoned fares have been pitched about five per cent higher than BR 's , ranging from a minimum 70p standard single to a £4.90 return , with the furthest-flung commuters paying £729 for an annual season ticket . |
| 6 | Put another way , 25 per cent of the population are spread over 90 per cent of the land area , or that while the average density is 2.4 people per hectare , the median density is only 0.5 people per hectare . |
| 7 | Husbands or wives were seen about 36 per cent of the 639 , other relatives about 43 per cent , friends or neighbours about 10 per cent , staff of institutions about 10 per cent and other officials about one per cent . |
| 8 | The offer made them a special case but by the same token was condemned by other groups such as the ancillary workers , who protested that they were offered only 4 per cent . |
| 9 | Insured life office pension funds are typically more balanced , being invested about 40 per cent in bonds . |
| 10 | Similarly , POC is constrained above 50 per cent accuracy and POE is constrained below 50 per cent accuracy . |
| 11 | For satellites launched with this vehicle , which has failed on two launches out of five , the premium is set around 12 per cent . |
| 12 | The further the cut-off point is reduced below 100 per cent , however , the more difficult it becomes to specify what has been learned . |
| 13 | they get rid of , saying that privatised the price of gas is gone down fourteen per cent in the past . |
| 14 | According to CIA estimates , Latin America ( excluding Cuba ) was allocated only 5.6 per cent of the aid extended by the Soviet Union to all non-Communist developing countries over the period 1954–78 , and received less than 2.5 per cent of Soviet military deliveries to the Third World . |
| 15 | A court in the Chinese city of Shanghai sentenced Li Xinghua for disfiguring Pan Ping , 24 , who was burned over 30 per cent of her body , including her face . |