Example sentences of "cent of [art] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As 50 per cent of the mileage was off road , I am rather disgusted . |
| 2 | Eighty per cent of the land is under plough … no railway … difficulty in attracting new industry . … |
| 3 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 4 | More than 10 per cent of the turnover is in the African branch of his business and he makes regular flying visits to Nigeria . |
| 5 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 6 | Market penetration of answering machines is about six per cent , although research indicates 20 per cent of the population are considering purchasing one . |
| 7 | Russells Hall estate is not typical of its immediate surroundings as only 6 per cent of the population are aged 10 or under while 52 per cent of the estate population are 50 or over . |
| 8 | Around 30 per cent of the population is aged 80 or over , living alone , with many of their carers aged 70 or over . |
| 9 | The housing deficit in Mexico is about 4 million units , which means that about 30 per cent of the population is in need of housing ( Hurtado 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Some 40 per cent of the population were of black African descent , 40 per cent were descended from labourers brought from the Indian subcontinent , and the remainder were of mixed race . |
| 11 | In none of these five detailed study authorities were versions available in any language other than English , despite the fact that in one of them , 17 per cent of the population were from ethnic minority groups . |
| 12 | The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line . |
| 13 | Michael Tappin , 42 , a politics lecturer at Keele University and delegate from the local CLP , believed 80 per cent of the party were in accord with the review . |