Example sentences of "cent [conj] [adj] [unc] cent of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his first address to the UN since taking office , United States President George Bush on Sept. 25 made proposals for cuts in chemical weapons , saying that the United States would begin elimination of 60 per cent or 98 per cent of its chemical weapons respectively , provided the Soviet Union cut its own stockpile to an equal level or eliminated it completely ; and that the USA would destroy all its chemical weapons within 10 years if the countries capable of producing such weapons signed a total ban treaty . |
| 2 | Once again , investors who put in their minimum £5,000 , will get 90 per cent or 95 per cent of any increase in the value of the top 100 companies in the portfolio . |
| 3 | Data from a large sample will show the earliest age at which a child would be expected to gain control of a particular aspect of language , and the age by which 90 per cent or 95 per cent of non-handicapped children might be expected to show evidence of the same ability . |
| 4 | Joe Sharp , director of space research at NASA 's Ames Research Laboratory explains : ‘ Nobody has the foggiest idea of the effect of even 40 per cent or 20 per cent of gravity for extended periods . ’ |
| 5 | Chile had a similar 28 per cent and Peru 29 per cent , while Venezuela and Brazil fared a little better with 31 per cent and 32 per cent of the total population in the labour force ( World in Figures 1978 ) . |
| 6 | A three-year follow up of a sample of elderly ( aged 65 + ) in Liverpool revealed that 44 per cent of women and 40 per cent of men defined as having organic brain disorders had died , compared with 11 per cent and 16 per cent of the well population . |
| 7 | This compared to 16 per cent and 13 per cent of those going to live with low EE relatives . |
| 8 | The centrist Union pour la Democratie Francaise ( UDF ) and right-wing Rassemblement Pour la Republique ( RPR ) look set to win a landslide victory in the French legislative elections on 21 and 28 March , taking between 38 per cent and 44 per cent of the vote . |
| 9 | But in the 1983 and 1987 elections the Conservatives averaged nearly 60 per cent and led Labour by 14.8 per cent and 11.5 per cent of the votes respectively in the two elections . |
| 10 | Among carers living in the same household as the person receiving care , this difference is even more apparent , with 62 per cent of women providing help with personal care and 53 per cent being responsible for giving medication , compared with 43 per cent and 37 per cent of men respectively . |
| 11 | The two largest creditor republics , Russia and Ukraine , would take 61.34 per cent and 16.37 per cent of the debt respectively . |
| 12 | To get the real benefits of aerobic walking and to walk towards that fitter , slimmer you , then you have to achieve a walking heart rate between 60 per cent and 85 per cent of your maximum heart rate ( refer again to Table 3 ) . |
| 13 | As the MIND report highlights , between 80 per cent and 85 per cent of NHS spending on mental health goes on hospital treatment , despite the overwhelming fact that the majority of people want and prefer community-based alternatives . |
| 14 | Between 38 per cent and 57 per cent of houses in the UK have lead pipework , while around 27 per cent are in areas with ‘ plumbosolvent ’ ( lead dissolving ) water , and half of these homes have lead in the connection pipe leading to the tap . |
| 15 | There were similar differences when people dying of respiratory disease and of cerebrovascular accident were considered separately : the proportions admitted to hospital were 25 per cent and 47 per cent of those in a residential home for a year or more , 76 per cent and 89 per cent of others among the two causes of death groups respectively . |
| 16 | Much more significant in this respect were hold-ers of £1,000 to £5,000 , who held respectively 42 per cent , 47.5 per cent , 25.8 per cent and 35.4 per cent of accounts in proportions of 50 , 42.8 , 41.8 and 43.3 per cent of stock . |
| 17 | Oil revenues were state revenues , and in Libya — depending on the price of oil — the petroleum industry created between 50 per cent and 80 per cent of gross domestic product : budgets for the distribution of this wealth could scarcely be other than central budgets . |
| 18 | These forecasts were criticized because both current practice and future intentions with regard to increased access to HE meant that many mature entrants to HE particularly in the public sector — who admit between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of mature entrants — do not possess the formal qualifications for HE . |
| 19 | For instance , if we take the basic wage paid by the largest firms to be 100 , firms in the two smallest size bands pay 78 per cent and 52 per cent of these rates . |
| 20 | The two cities indirectly hold more than 17 per cent and 10 per cent of MBB which could be enough to stop the merger , observers said . |
| 21 | Britain , with a defence budget of £1,500 million a year , was actually spending an even higher proportion of its wealth on arms — between 8 per cent and 10 per cent of the Gross National Product , a third of its tax revenue . |
| 22 | Usually the initial fee payable to the franchisor is between 5 per cent and 10 per cent of the total investment . |
| 23 | Under the Feb. 15 quota system Qatar and Libya would suffer the heaviest pro rata cuts , equivalent to 10.24 per cent and 10 per cent of their current quotas respectively , while Venezuela and the UAE were to reduce their production by 9.68 per cent and 9.63 per cent respectively . |
| 24 | It is worth thinking about , because if you are on a wage of less than £60 a week , the difference in cost between paying 3.85 per cent and 5 per cent of your earnings is not very great . |
| 25 | Between 1 per cent and 5 per cent of paediatric admissions to hospital are showing failure to thrive ( Berwick et al . |
| 26 | Midland estimates that it will be able to trade its debt for equity stakes at between 30 per cent and 40 per cent of the face value of the loans — getting equity stakes valued between $30million and $40million in exchange for an existing $100million loan . |
| 27 | The cost of running PERT varied between 3 per cent and 9 per cent of the project cost , the latter figure applying mainly to projects costing less than $100 000 . |
| 28 | The cost of running PERT varied between 3 per cent and 9 per cent of the project cost , the latter figure applying mainly to projects costing less than $100 000 . |
| 29 | At the third job level , between 25 per cent and 60 per cent of recruits found their position through ‘ word of mouth ’ . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |