Example sentences of "[noun] 10 [unc] [no cls] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four out of 10 shoppers believe that supermarkets selling " environment-friendly " products do so to exploit the market and not out of a genuine concern to protect the earth , according to Mintel. 10 per cent of respondents in the Mintel survey believed that companies were hiding behind a green " front " , and those who went out of their way to buy green products did so " in spite of corporate public relations efforts " . |
| 2 | As the government squeezed the finances ever harder , British Rail became more efficient , and while even InterCity began by pruning 10 per cent of its mileage , at the end most of the sectors were more concerned about how to handle their increasing traffic . |
| 3 | In the period 1979 — 87 the bottom 10 per cent of earners made net gains of 5 per cent , the top 1 o per cent gains of 28 per cent . |
| 4 | The table shows the composition of the bottom 10 per cent of the income distribution according to type of family . |
| 5 | Earnings a share rose 9 per cent to 14.4p and the dividend 10 per cent to 3.10p . |
| 6 | His more difficult task is to persuade the Premier League to honour a Football League agreement to pay the union 10 per cent of television earnings . |
| 7 | Affecting the coal , oil , gas , petrochemical and metallurgical industries and the railways , it featured a package of incentives including a 5 per cent pay rise for workers for each percentage point by which monthly output in their enterprise exceeded average output in January-April 1991 , and the right of enterprises to sell for their own profit 10 per cent of their output on the domestic market . |
| 8 | There will also be a tender offer to repurchase 10 per cent of British Land 's shares at 420p , together with a voucher for the associated tax credit worth 89p . |
| 9 | In South Wales 10 per cent of those who were classed as always alone , and therefore by implication as being socially isolated , reported that they often or always felt lonely . |