Example sentences of "[noun] and [num] per [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How on earth can the Secretary of State justify his disgraceful decisions , particularly on the Royal Scottish National hospital in my constituency , where the application for trust status was opposed by virtually the entire community , the patients ' relatives association and 96 per cent . |
| 2 | According to Fidelity — one of the few companies which is to date offering these funds — the yield on its Tax Free Income Plan ( a unit trust comprising 51 per cent equities and 49 per cent bonds ) will fall from about 6 per cent now to 5.75 per cent after 5 April . |
| 3 | Of this total , 26 per cent are in the UK , 49 per cent in Indonesia and 25 per cent in other countries . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , Mori figures show that between the second half of 1991 and 9 April 1992 , the swing to the Tories was 9 per cent among Sun readers and 6 per cent among Star readers , compared to just 1 per cent among Mirror readers — evidence that the press influenced its readers in 1992 as in 1987 . |
| 5 | But amongst uncommitted voters , it increased by 28 per cent amongst Express/Mail readers and 50 per cent amongst Sun/Star readers . |
| 6 | The proportion of rooms held back for this purpose is renegotiated annually : Winter has agreed to continue the 1985 arrangements over the following summer , i.e. 30 per cent over June-August and 15 per cent in May and September . |
| 7 | Of the residents who voted 53.4 per cent were for closure and 46.6 per cent in favour of keeping it open . |
| 8 | After four years around of quarter of them had developed AIDS and ten per cent had died . |
| 9 | Currently , hydrocarbons account for a third of Norway 's gross exports , 15 per cent of revenue and 17 per cent of Gross National Product . |
| 10 | In 1988 mining represented 22 per cent of GDP and contributed nearly two-thirds of export revenue and 90 per cent of budget revenue . |
| 11 | The November 1989 budget presented to parliament by Finance Minister Paul Pora was unexpectedly expansionist given the closure of the Panguna copper mine or Bougainville which had previously provided about 17 per cent of national revenue and 40 per cent of foreign exchange earnings . |
| 12 | Use in rural areas is extensive , but it is in urban areas that it reaches its apogee , with some 30 per cent of home-work trips and 64 per cent of home-school trips made by cycle . |
| 13 | Kieman , Reid and Jones ( 1982 ) , in a survey of special schools using some form of signing , claim 34 per cent of schools responding have a PGSS programme and 33 per cent of children had some PGSS in their education . |
| 14 | The consequence is that of those questioned in an opinion poll carried out in Buxtehude by the German Automobile Association ADAC , 67 per cent of the car drivers and 76 per cent of the inhabitants approve of 30 km/h as a speed limit . |
| 15 | It estimated that 90 per cent of the manpower , 85 per cent of the tanks , 95 per cent of the artillery and 85 per cent of the combat airpower were provided by NATO 's European members . |
| 16 | They had proposed astonishing increases of 24.3 per cent for the judiciary and 19.4 per cent for senior civil servants . |
| 17 | The DLP won 49 per cent of the seats compared with only 19 per cent won by the PPD and 32 per cent won by independents [ see p. 38098 ] . |
| 18 | Since the Royal Commission on Population found that out of a sample of 7,625 pregnancies only 147 resulted in criminal abortions ( equal to 2 per cent of all pregnancies and 17 per cent of all abortions ) , it is unlikely that changes in the abortion rate played a major part in accounting for the decrease in working class fertility . |
| 19 | Furthermore , at A level , only 2 per cent of Afro-Caribbean students obtained one or more passes , compared with 13 per cent of Asians , 12 per cent of other school leavers in these LEAs and 13 per cent of all leavers from state schools . |
| 20 | A survey of six LEAs conducted for Rampton revealed that only 3 per cent of Afro-Caribbean school leavers gained five or more O level passes or CSE grade ones in 1978–79 , compared with 18 per cent of Asian pupils , 16 per cent of other school leavers in these LEAs and 21 per cent of all school leavers from state schools . |
| 21 | Municipal sewage works have used such methods to treat sewage since the early 1900s and the biogas produced , which consists on average of 70 per cent methane and 30 per cent carbon dioxide ( Hawkes and Hawkes 1987 ) , can be used to power the digestion plant itself . |
| 22 | Among ‘ working class ’ identifiers 72 per cent were Labour supporters and 28 per cent Tories . |
| 23 | Fully 10 per cent of Tory supporters and 22 per cent of Liberal Democrats would vote Labour under those circumstances . |
| 24 | Statistics show that 12 per cent of this lumpy skin is formed in puberty , 16 per cent occurs when women put on weight and 27 per cent forms just before the menopause begins . |
| 25 | Although the Christian Democrats ( CD ) , who had controlled the city council since the end of the Second World War , won only 94 fewer votes than the League — translating as 24.3 per cent of the vote and 7.6 per cent down on the last elections — the Brescia poll was widely interpreted as signalling a disillusionment among voters with existing electoral options . |
| 26 | Two-party dominance was at its greatest in the period between 1945 and 1970 when the Conservative and Labour Parties won all but 8 per cent of the vote and 2 per cent of the seats . |
| 27 | In a 95.5 per cent turnout , 94.39 per cent voted in favour of secession and 0.46 per cent against . |
| 28 | Surveys show that where the family head is aged between 55 and 64 , more than the average is spent on home and leisure : 60 per cent more on home improvement , 38 per cent more on furnishings , 26 per cent more on cars and 17 per cent more on holidays . |
| 29 | Volvo now owns 20 per cent of Renault 's car division , with the French company owning 25 per cent of Volvo Cars and 10 per cent of AB Volvo . |
| 30 | The fastest growth will occur in the electrical sector , with overall rates of 7 per cent pa , but uncertainty over recycling will damage prospects for the automotive polyesters — annual growth is forecast to be as low as 2 per cent for cars and 1.7 per cent for commercial vehicles . |