Example sentences of "cent [conj] [adj] [unc] cent [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scheduled and charter passenger throughout rose by five per cent and 11 per cent respectively to over 260,000 and 675,000 . |
| 2 | This was particularly so with the education professions and with low skilled industrial jobs where women made up 57 per cent and 23 per cent respectively of the total workforce but 79 per cent and 32 per cent respectively of the temporary workforce . |
| 3 | Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro stock markets showed record index gains of 36 per cent and 32 per cent respectively on Feb. 4 as individuals transferred money from bank accounts in response to the abolition of the indexation on savings and certificates of deposits . |
| 4 | Between 1961 and 1985 men and women aged 65 — 74 years have recorded life expectancy increases of 11 per cent and 14 per cent respectively ; for those aged 85 + the increases are 8 per cent for men and 20 per cent for women . |
| 5 | Because of the increase in low parity births to remarried women , these proportions had converged by 1987 , to 15 per cent and 16 per cent respectively . |
| 6 | Of the company 's remaining operations : clinical laboratories saw the greatest profit and sales rises , at 26 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |
| 7 | Almost half of these funds allocated within the Community were used in Italy , with France and the UK obtaining 15 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |
| 8 | ( 1983 ) and using an explicitly comparable methodology produced rates of depressive illness of 12.4 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |
| 9 | Industrial production and retail sales had both surged , at a rate of 13.7 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |
| 10 | For male manual workers the proportion was 30.4 per cent in 1968 and 35.9 per cent in 1979 ; for women the corresponding proportions were 31.0 per cent and 38.3 per cent respectively . |
| 11 | The corresponding percentages for medium-sized corporates were 68 per cent and 18 per cent respectively and for smaller firms 54 and 38.5 per cent respectively . ’ |
| 12 | Foreign trade turnover was up 4.7 per cent overall ; that with socialist countries fell slightly but exports to and imports from the industrialized West rose 7.6 per cent and 23.6 per cent respectively , to 26,000 million and 26,800 million roubles . |
| 13 | In 1985 7 per cent of those aged 65 + were receiving home help services and 3 per cent home meals ; this compares with 5 per cent and 1 per cent respectively in 1972 . |
| 14 | In the Protestant North and Waterside wards it won 30 per cent and 27.5 per cent respectively . |
| 15 | In 1901 38 per cent of men were widowed compared with 18 per cent in 1981 ; for women the proportions were 50 per cent and 44 per cent respectively . |
| 16 | The study produced prevalence estimates of 4.9 per cent and 2.4 per cent respectively . |
| 17 | might have also mentioned that the number of scholarships and the funds available for them have been increased by 50 per cent and 500 per cent respectively . |
| 18 | Measuring an obtuse angle of 150- was successfully undertaken by 55 per cent , 74 per cent and 75 per cent respectively of the pupils in the three bands . |
| 19 | The percentage reporting that they sometimes felt lonely increased from 10 per cent of males and 16 per cent of females aged 70 — 74 to 18 per cent and 27 per cent respectively of those aged 85 + ( Victor 1987 ) . |
| 20 | In 1986 they accounted for 34 per cent of all admissions and 37 per cent of first admissions compared with 22 per cent and 27 per cent respectively in 1976 ( DOH 1989c ) . |
| 21 | In that year petroleum , office and photographic equipment multinationals ( mainly American ) reported overseas production ratios of 58 per cent , 41 per cent and 37 per cent respectively . |
| 22 | They showed some decline in the 1931 Census ( to 48 per cent and 8 per cent respectively ) , part of which must have been the result of high general levels of unemployment in the depths of the inter-war depression . |
| 23 | In a study of Nottinghamshire , Leicestershire and Staffordshire police , they found that 25 per cent of all crimes discovered in Notts came from admission by those in custody , while in Leicestershire and Staffordshire the figures were 4 per cent and 8 per cent respectively . |
| 24 | The APU collection of questions was searched for items which conformed individually and collectively to the following criteria : — nearly all the items would have success rates between 60 per cent and 95 per cent nationally ; — all the items would have low omission rates among the bottom 20 per cent band of attainers nationally ; that is , they would not deter this group of pupils , who would be willing to " have a go " at them ; — overall , the items should cover a reasonable variety of topics , including basic ideas such as fractions , decimals , graphs ; and , — as far as possible the items selected would have a high incidence of a distinctive error or errors which would give them some diagnostic value . |
| 25 | Although agriculture remained the largest sector of the economy ( accounting for almost 20 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and 80 per cent of employment ) , there was a rapid growth in the non-sugar manufacturing sector , which had declined by 6.6 per cent in 1987 , but grew thereafter by 3.2 per cent , 5.4 per cent and 7.8 per cent respectively in subsequent years . |
| 26 | Of these overall rates , growth of capital stocks accounted for 0.73 per cent and 0.43 per cent respectively . |
| 27 | And comparing those women with three or more children at home against those with fewer or no children , 43 per cent and 17 per cent respectively became depressed . |
| 28 | The figures for teacher training were 32 per cent and 26 per cent respectively . |
| 29 | Growth in Germany and Japan next year is expected to be 3.2 per cent and 4.5 per cent respectively . |
| 30 | Levels of government expenditure on education dropped from over 30 per cent of national expenditure and 6 to 7 per cent of GNP in the mid-1970s to 22 per cent and 4 per cent respectively in 1985 . |