Example sentences of "up [adv] [conj] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that 13 years manufacturing output under his Government in Britain has gone up less than 6 per cent . |
| 2 | In total women make up less than 20 per cent of the labour force in large private sector firms and the majority are young and unmarried who leave before they have accumulated more than 10 years service . |
| 3 | Local authorities would be obliged to allocate 15 per cent of council housing to people from depressed areas , and in areas where council housing made up less than 20 per cent of housing , the local authority would be obliged to make a 15 per cent contribution to its construction . |
| 4 | In a combative interview with Empire Magazine he declared : ‘ Black people make up 20 per cent of the population of the US but they make up more than 95 per cent of what 's interesting and hip . ’ |
| 5 | This SiO4 building-block can combine with almost all of the other twelve elements in the list to form silicate minerals , and these , with quartz , make up more than 99 per cent of all volcanic rocks . |
| 6 | The attention-grabbing deal comes as the US market , which in the past has made up more than 40 per cent of sales of the Coventry-produced supercars , shows the first signs of upturn in three years . |
| 7 | Now a new report , prepared by the University of Reading 's Department of Agricultural economics and Management , reveals that those small farms make up more than 40 per cent of the UK 's farming industry , but are of ‘ negligible agricultural significance ’ , being responsible for only 2 er cent of all the UK 's agricultural production . |
| 8 | In more than half of the years between 1713 and 1785 debt service took up more than 40 per cent of total revenue . |
| 9 | The old Escorts went up more than 12 per cent last year , the last rise coming just a couple of weeks before the introduction of the new model . |
| 10 | Spending on pet food was up more than seven per cent in 1991 . |