Example sentences of "[adv] some [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers in these latter two sectors spoke of topping up their regular staff levels by perhaps some 10 per cent to cope with the Christmas peak . |
| 2 | By contrast , the removal of credit rationing would boost prices by only some 4.5 per cent if real mortgage rates were as high as 10 per cent . |
| 3 | About two-thirds of the articles were Realist , with only some 10 per cent falling into a ‘ structuralist ’ ( or , as they called it , ‘ dialectical ’ ) category . |
| 4 | At present , only some 5 per cent of the elderly population live in institutions . |
| 5 | At present , the government admits that only some 20 per cent of concession-holders meet the guidelines . |
| 6 | ITV began with only some 3 per cent of households equipped to receive it . |
| 7 | Western Europe produced around 10 per cent throughout this period , and the rest of the world only some 3 per cent . |
| 8 | But the quid pro quo was the loss of the ability to offset exploration drilling costs against PRT liability on producing fields , a concession which reduced the actual cost of sinking a new well to just some 17 per cent of rig charges for companies which had such a tax shelter . |
| 9 | Over the last three months they rose only 0.5 per cent by value on the previous three months , but still some 12 per cent more than the same period in 1988 . |
| 10 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 11 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 12 | Moslems made up some 43 per cent of the population in Bosnia , Serbs 31 per cent and Croats 17 per cent . |
| 13 | In the South Wales police area , the crime level this year will be up some 22 per cent . |
| 14 | What was especially significant was the size of the ‘ do n't knows ’ , typically some 30 per cent . |
| 15 | The Halcrow report showed that , while overall some 30 per cent of UK drinking water comes from aquifers , this varies from 6 per cent in Wales to 74 per cent in Southern Water 's region . |
| 16 | Salinisation and waterlogging are also creating environmental degradation in Iraq where some 50 per cent of the country 's 36 000 km 2 of irrigated land is affected . |
| 17 | This is in striking contrast to the important role they play in the occupational structure : currently some thirty-six per cent of the labour force is female . |