Example sentences of "and [adv] [num] [unc] cent [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 67 per cent of the farms there was no primary school , and only 5 per cent had adult literacy classes , of which only one-third were judged to be satisfactory . |
| 2 | In a Gallup Poll survey conducted for Sidhartha Films Ltd of nearly 1000 people aged over 60 , 78 per cent agreed with the statement ‘ I never think of myself as old ’ , and only 14 per cent disagreed . |
| 3 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 4 | From 1981 to 1985 , US aid to El Salvador totalled US$1.7 billion , of which some 30 per cent was direct military aid ; 44.1 per cent was economic assistance to prop up El Salvador 's ailing economy , hard hit by the war ; 10.5 per cent was food aid ; and only 15.4 per cent went to development and governmental reform . |
| 5 | Of " voluntary " temporary workers , nearly a half had been out of the labour market entirely 12 months before and only two per cent had been unemployed , but of " involuntary " temporary workers the proportions were just under one third in both cases . |
| 6 | Further questioning showed that 58 per cent said they ‘ knew nothing ’ about the average engineering company and only 8 per cent felt ‘ well informed . ’ |
| 7 | Further questioning showed that 58 per cent said they ‘ knew nothing ’ about the average engineering company and only 8 per cent felt ‘ well informed . ’ |
| 8 | According to official results announced on Feb. 11 the turnout was 84.43 per cent of eligible voters , of whom 90.47 per cent voted " yes " and only 6.56 per cent voted " no " . |
| 9 | Nearly three-quarters of the boys who were apprenticed to cutlers in and around Sheffield between 1650 and 1724 came from within a 15-mile radius of their new homes and only 4 per cent migrated more than 40 miles . |
| 10 | Restraining the use of private cars would carry no disadvantages , in the view of 53 per cent , and only 4 per cent thought that discouraging people from using cars represented a loss of liberty . |
| 11 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 12 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 13 | A third of teachers thought their report was not very judgmental , about a half thought them fairly judgmental and only 9 per cent thought them very judgmental , a further 10 per cent being unsure on this . |
| 14 | When asked about the job ‘ scientist ’ , 69 per cent said that it was a man 's job and only 9 per cent said it was a woman 's job . |
| 15 | In the first week of the campaign only 5 per cent of television 's election news focused on defence , only 3 per cent of the electorate thought the parties were stressing the issue , and only 3 per cent wished them to do so . |
| 16 | Of young women 66 per cent thought Britain was heading in the wrong direction , and that major changes were needed , and only 28 per cent felt things were all right the way they were . |
| 17 | Half the respondents gave 1 per month or less , and only 6 per cent gave 30 or more . |
| 18 | Of those companies surveyed , 56 per cent had no formal environmental policy , and only 29 per cent had referred to environmental concerns in their annual reports . |
| 19 | It suggested that 65 per cent of the country 's top 300 companies did not understand the Government 's economic policies and only 29 per cent thought they understood them . |
| 20 | An opinion poll in the Journal du Dimanche yesterday said 47 per cent of those questioned thought M Tapie was ‘ a liar ’ and only 43 per cent thought he was ‘ sincere ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The 1989 AMERG survey of architects , however , indicates that a substantial minority ( over 28 per cent ) felt that the demand for their services at the time was not being adequately met and nearly 40 per cent felt that the intake of students into architectural training was insufficient to meet future demands . |
| 23 | About 34 per cent of employment within the zones was in pre-designation companies , and about 34 per cent had transferred in . |
| 24 | The average non-farming income for the south-west of England ‘ from non-farming sources ’ in 1989 was £9,356 , and about 66 per cent came from waged employment . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |