Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] 20 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , give it ten years and perhaps only 20 per cent will be producing what 60 per cent or 70 per cent were twenty-five years ago . |
| 2 | Close ties with Performance Fabrics remain and apart from sharing the same site Tygavac buys in about 20 per cent of its products from the Courtaulds Aerospace company . |
| 3 | The gamma dose rate proved to be only about 20 per cent — reasonably typical for clay materials . |
| 4 | Although membership remained low , only about 20 per cent of the West Bank labour force , the resurgence of the union movement symbolized a new national populism which the authorities seemed unable to stifle . |
| 5 | Only about 20 per cent of the carbon in the coal ends up in the gas in either process , so carbonisation is not an efficient method for producing a carbon-based gas from coal . |
| 6 | He recalls that a petrol engine is only about 20 per cent efficient ; most of the energy of its fuel appears as heat in its radiator and exhaust . |
| 7 | Only about 20 per cent do , yet this is supposed to be why we 're here . |
| 8 | Only about 20 per cent of local government revenue was being raised from households actually required to pay rates . |
| 9 | Only about 20 per cent . |
| 10 | The manufacturing base , which is already nearing the limits of viability — it is only about 20 per cent . |
| 11 | If you are less then 20 per cent overweight , you will be able to increase your pace much faster . |
| 12 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 13 | Just under 20 per cent of the population , however , in both areas complain of spring/summer symptoms and in the oilseed rape area a proportion attributed their symptoms to this crop . |
| 14 | The only flexibility in a local authority 's ability to raise finance will be the poll tax , which on current reckoning is intended to make up only 20 per cent of a local authority 's revenue base . |
| 15 | Digesting food uses up about 20 per cent of our calorie intake but the rest must be worked off by the energy we expend while living our lives . |
| 16 | Dairy products make up over 20 per cent of our calories and they also provide over 20 per cent of our protein intake and much of our calcium . |
| 17 | Growth rates in the North are well below the world average and thus its population will increase by about only 20 per cent between 1980 and 2025 . |
| 18 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 19 | Now over 20 per cent of American households have a Nintendo , and the Atari VCS is just a fond memory . |
| 20 | Simply expressed , a relatively poorly supported centre party with well under 20 per cent of the vote , but with some eighty or so seats , would invariably be in government ; would be in a position to determine whether Conservative or Labour were drawn into government with it ; and would , therefore , be able to exert an influence over the direction of public policy out of all proportion to their votes and support in the country at large . |
| 21 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 22 | Mantes now employs 136 people and productivity per head has increased by well over 20 per cent in one year . |
| 23 | Typically overheating by 1°C increases energy consumption by 7 per cent , and so heating a building to 22°C rather than the statutory maximum of 19°C increases the amount of energy used by over 20 per cent . |
| 24 | In the event , absenteeism in the body plant actually rose by over 20 per cent over the seven-year period spanning the installation of the line-out system , though this was a smaller rise than in the press and the paint plants adjacent to the body shop . |
| 25 | Eight weeks later the questionnaires were sent out and again about 20 per cent responded with completed details . |
| 26 | It is currently about 20 per cent more expensive than peat composts . |
| 27 | The month-on-month inflation rate was currently over 20 per cent . |