Example sentences of "[be] only [adv] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quick scan through the ‘ for sale ’ pages of U.S. and British magazines indicates that prices for aircraft in the USA are only about sixty per cent of those in the UK . |
| 2 | Therefore the proportion of households headed by a married couple has been decreasing through time — it was 74 per cent in 1971 , 70 per cent in 1981 , and is expected to be only about 55 per cent in 2001 in England and Wales ( Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 3 | The gamma dose rate proved to be only about 20 per cent — reasonably typical for clay materials . |
| 4 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
| 5 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 6 | increase for school buildings next year is a good outcome , given that the level of inflation is only about 4 per cent . |
| 7 | For now the geologists ' definition is sufficient : the tectonic Pacific is a body that is only about 70 per cent of the area of the conventionally accepted Ocean , and omits the coasts of all the South American and most of the South-East-Asian countries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The manufacturing base , which is already nearing the limits of viability — it is only about 20 per cent . |
| 10 | In young male fiddler crabs the large claw is only about 2 per cent of the weight of the rest of the body , but among adults the large claw may eventually reach 70 per cent of the body weight ( above ) . |
| 11 | At first , registration of births was only about 95 per cent complete . |
| 12 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 13 | Although their population was only about 5 per cent of the total of rural Wales , some districts fared relatively worse than others , particularly in Powys ( Brecknock , Montgomery and Radnor ) and parts of West Wales ( Preseli and south Pembrokeshire ) . |
| 14 | In France , Italy and the USA , the decline was only about 2 per cent . |
| 15 | Its share of ‘ small systems ’ was only about 15 per cent , but due to grow . |
| 16 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 17 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |
| 18 | Voter turnout was only around 42 per cent , however . |