Example sentences of "make up only [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | On average , maintenance made up only 7 per cent of total income , with the mean amount being about £26 per family , or £16 per child per week . |
| 2 | Stamp duties , which did fall on the luxury consumption of the better-off , made up only 13 per cent of indirect taxation in 1800 and less than half as much of total revenue . |
| 3 | The pattern of relative abundance of Ichneumonidae is quite different : nearly a third of the 455 species trapped during 1972–73 were represented by single individuals , and the seven commonest species made up only 22 per cent of the catch . |
| 4 | A survey carried out for the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that subsidised pauper wage-earners made up only 0.5 per cent of the female population in the sixteen areas investigated , though an 1898 report by a woman factory inspector in Glasgow had considered that a substantial amount of poor relief went in aid of wages . |
| 5 | The first figures published by the Home Office ( Home Office 1986 ) indicated that of prisoners , 8 per cent of men and 12 per cent of women were Afro-Caribbean , yet these groups make up only 1 per cent and 2 per cent of the population in general ( see also Walker 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Though whites make up only 17 per cent of the population , they control the most fertile farming areas . |
| 7 | Prisoners are male , and disproportionately young — a quarter of the prison population being under 21 , whereas 15–20-year-olds make up only 10 per cent of the British population . |
| 8 | Writing paper and personal cards make up only 29 per cent of the stationery market in France . |
| 9 | The only flexibility in a local authority 's ability to raise finance will be the poll tax , which on current reckoning is intended to make up only 20 per cent of a local authority 's revenue base . |