Example sentences of "cent [conj] [adj] [unc] cent [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discounting Project A by 8 per cent and 14 per cent produces this result : whereby an 8 per cent discount factor produces a negative NPV of £2,025 and a 14 per cent discount factor produces a positive NPV of £2,515 . |
| 2 | Just one quarter of Britain 's robots were made in the UK ; 37 per cent came from the rest of Europe while 24 per cent and 14 per cent owe their origins to the US and Japan . |
| 3 | Obviously , one can not add the two figures of 0.67 per cent and 0.58 per cent to arrive at the total contribution of education , since there is an overlap between the two , i.e. advances in knowledge must have affected advances in the education of the labour force and vice versa . |
| 4 | A succession of government-union talks throughout June failed to reach conclusive settlements of widespread union demands for higher wages , settlement of outstanding overtime pay , reform of the excessive wage tax , compensatory payments for the 140 per cent and 110 per cent increases respectively in gas and electricity charges introduced on May 27 , and cancellation of government plans for higher rents and other charges anticipated in the July budget . |
| 5 | The rate of growth for 1990 was forecast at between 4.8 per cent and 5.2 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 6 | Five questions produced success rates of 50 per cent or more for the bottom band pupils , and for seven questions between 40 per cent and 50 per cent obtained the correct answer . |