Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is this mild rebuke the typical response made by the inspectorate , but it is even the usual response to firms detected three or more times ; for these , the rate of prosecution was still only 3. 5 per cent ! |
| 2 | Well a little more , in future ask travels for the earliest make changes and deal with the future and again this is remarkable that only sixty five per cent absolutely endorse that but our potentials in the , if you look at the next examples , forty four we are told here were in favour of the strategy and thirty six per cent opposed . |
| 3 | so seventy five per cent is three quarters . |
| 4 | Likewise Townsend and Wedderburn ( 1965 , Chapter 4 ) , studying elderly people over 65 in Britain in 1962 , found only I 1 per cent of non-married women with occupational benefits — 18 per cent of single women and 9 per cent of widows , the older women being the poorest . |
| 5 | So twenty five per cent is the same as a quarter |
| 6 | I think only twenty four per cent thought that , that flu was preventable , so er there 's a lot of work to be done to get the message across . |
| 7 | They have no choice at all , and we are in a most dreadful situation and government policy only has one choice and that 's you buy , and if you ca n't afford to buy , and at the moment only thirty five per cent of families in Oxford can afford to buy on the current wage levels and the current house prices , the other sixty five per cent have no choice whatsoever , so you know you 're talking nonsense to say we want consumer choice in housing . |
| 8 | Approximately 36 40 per cent of headings show LC class numbers . |
| 9 | His information was not one hundred per cent perfect then . |
| 10 | ‘ To tell the truth , I 'm not one hundred per cent sure whether I did or not , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 11 | ‘ Not one hundred per cent , of course . |
| 12 | Her concentration was still not one hundred per cent , though , when suddenly , forcefully , and to make her spin round in surprise , someone burst into her office . |
| 13 | Three hundred and sixty take away twenty five per cent . |
| 14 | Oh it 's not twenty five per cent , no it 's it 's it 's around ten or fifteen per cent on the list . |
| 15 | The story was ‘ totally one hundred per cent ’ . |
| 16 | By today 's deadline Green King had only picked up forty six per cent of Morland 's shares … |
| 17 | In one much-quoted case a holding of 30 acres in the manor of Plumpton , increased in scale value by nearly three hundred per cent in the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | Ten days later , the Senate as a whole approved this bill by an overwhelming majority before going on in May to embrace a budget resolution that ‘ contained nearly one hundred per cent of the administration 's entire economic program , by a vote of 72 — 20 . |
| 19 | The article continues with a rhetorical question : ‘ How many branch chairmen would be worried about having a membership consisting of non-political marons [ sic ] if they turned up one hundred per cent to every leaflet drop and fund raising event ? ’ ( 10/1 , June 1980 ) . |
| 20 | They make up twenty three per cent of those currently applying for council homes in the Forest . |
| 21 | Last year they increased turnover by nearly a hundred million and increased profits by nearly twenty nine per cent . |
| 22 | Forty seven point eight per cent , well it 's about forty eight per cent . |
| 23 | As you probably know , about ninety eight per cent of all criminal cases are dealt with by magistrates ' court , which is a truly remarkable figure , and I think you have to think about it twice when it 's first said . |
| 24 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |
| 25 | Now what you did when you worked out seventy eight per cent , you say seventy eight over a hundred , and you put it in your calculator , and you did seventy eight divided by a hundred , and that gave you nought point seven eight . |
| 26 | whereas certain parts of their handling are going to be about fifteen twenty per cent |
| 27 | In England and Wales the average proportion of each marriage cohort still without children after twenty years of marriage ( all ages at marriage together ) is between 10 and 15 per cent ( e.g. 1951 13 per cent , 1956 10 per cent ) . |
| 28 | Far more than household waste which forms about twenty five per cent of the total and therefore I feel that we can make an enormous contribution to the improvement of our environment by the establishments of sites for the collection for the sorting and resale of the building materials . |
| 29 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 30 | . It 's a new product , I 'm gon na make reasonable It 's about thirty five per cent margin |