Example sentences of "cent of [art] [noun sg] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A predator company ( the offerer ) can buy up to 15 per cent of a company 's shares without restrictions , but above that level must then wait seven days before being allowed to buy up to another ten per cent . |
| 2 | Cinema surveys showed 46 per cent of the film 's audiences were over 25 who had loved the original . |
| 3 | Management commission rates vary , but a current average is 20 per cent of the artist 's earnings . |
| 4 | It is estimated that about 75 per cent of the union 's members in Hackney and Tower Hamlets voted in the ballot , supported officially by NUT national leaders . |
| 5 | Yet , by Party-State criteria , this represents an intelligent use of scarce resources ( as does use of the merchant , fishing and oceanographic fleets to furnish 70 per cent of the Navy 's supplies at sea ) . |
| 6 | 97 per cent of the territory 's waters are now officially unpolluted — representing a net increase of 968 kilometres compared to 1985 . |
| 7 | According to an Iowa State College survey , 78 per cent of the state 's farmers say that modern farming is too dependent on herbicides and insecticides . |
| 8 | A restructuring plan , put forward by the 47 banks owed £1.5 billion by Brent Walker , needed the approval of 75 per cent of the company 's bondholders . |
| 9 | MERCHANT bankers proposing a demerger of Ferranti International into two separate businesses have received the initial approval of 40 per cent of the company 's shareholders . |
| 10 | Bengal textiles were vital to trade ; after the founding of Calcutta they made up , taking one year with another , over 40 per cent of the Company 's exports to England . |
| 11 | Within the company 's warehousing and distribution operation , which accounts for 75 per cent of the company 's employees , the majority opted to stay in London . |
| 12 | Edwards agreed last month to sell his stake of 51 per cent of the company 's shares to Knighton for £10m , but that deal would be scuppered if a court rules in favour of Edwards . |
| 13 | The 25 per cent rule Because it is a continuing requirement for a listing that at least 25 per cent of the company 's shares must be in the hands of the public , a listed company must ensure that this percentage will continue in public hands following each market purchase . |
| 14 | At present , only 2 per cent of the country 's forests enjoy any protected status . |
| 15 | All the rest of the Norwegian types are now considered extinct as separate breeds or are rare : 98 per cent of the country 's cattle are now of the Norwegian Red type , which can be solid red or red with some white . |
| 16 | It showed that nearly 50 per cent of the country 's conifers , and more than 25 per cent of its broadleaved trees , suffered from moderate or severe leaf loss during 1990 . |
| 17 | The figures on schooling and educational background are particularly revealing , not just because they disclose that roughly 90 per cent of the country 's judges received a public school education , or that over three quarters had attended either Oxford or Cambridge universities , but because they also confirm that this social profile has remained virtually unaltered over the last four decades or more . |
| 18 | In addition the armed revolutionary movement was said to control or influence twenty per cent of the country 's villages . |
| 19 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 20 | The government 's target is to have 1,500 megawatts worth of electricity , equivalent to 3 per cent of the country 's requirements , generated by renewables by the turn of the century . |
| 21 | ‘ Only 11 per cent of the country 's 18-year-olds pass three A-levels , ’ says Michael Duffy , head of the King Edward VI School , in Morpeth , Northumberland . |
| 22 | In Kenya bureaucracy provided 40 per cent of the country 's jobs and had to be kept content . |
| 23 | The report claims that some 5.5 per cent of the country 's trees have lost their leaves , while many others suffer from pollution . |
| 24 | The CGT was the major union confederation representing some 2,500,000 workers and 90 per cent of the country 's unions . |
| 25 | The national strike started on 3 May , with less support in Nottinghamshire than many other fields ( Sunley , 1988 ) ; work continued unbroken at Blidworth and Clipstone , two of the newly-opened Dukeries pits , and by September some 70 per cent of the county 's miners were back at work ( Griffin , 1962 , p. 183 ) . |
| 26 | The survey also says that ten per cent of the county 's companies think the market will actually contract in the next six months . |
| 27 | Some 256 locations — 75 per cent of the association 's members — were surveyed in total . |
| 28 | Compulsory redundancies have been made at packaging firm Marchant Manufacturing Co Ltd in Piperell Way , Haverhill — at a time when 10.6 per cent of the town 's workers are jobless . |
| 29 | The privatisation programme , it was proposed , would take place in three stages , with not less than 20 per cent of the republic 's assets in private hands by the end of 1992 . |
| 30 | Sarajevo remained under siege , although relief convoys supplying about 50 per cent of the city 's needs reached the city by road and relief flights continued sporadically . |