Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also articles that argue solemnly that all stories in the National Enquirer are 95 per cent true . |
| 2 | Executive salaries in financial services and the communications industry were 18 per cent above average . |
| 3 | If the deal were 50 per cent of the gross , the artist takes £500 and that is the end of the matter . |
| 4 | I shall say it again : local authority stock is 2.5 per cent . |
| 5 | But he was also at pains to point out that the wind is 2–5 per cent down on historical averages and that the water temperature is five degrees higher , producing softer winds than his boats had been designed for . |
| 6 | In France the figure for local revenue is 8 per cent , but in federal nations like Canada and Switzerland it is well over 40 per cent , in the former West Germany and the United States over 30 per cent , and in Sweden over 25 per cent . |
| 7 | The sheriff 's department is 86 per cent white . |
| 8 | For example , staff turnover is 130 per cent less than last year . |
| 9 | What those figures certainly reveal is that the real gains in investment in British business since 1979 have been sustained , so that even at the depth of this present recession investment is 40 per cent . |
| 10 | The guess under Labour is 11.6 per cent , or 1.7 points higher . |
| 11 | In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent . |
| 12 | In France , Germany and Japan , the figure is two per cent . |
| 13 | during this Government 's life , in West Yorkshire the figure is 83 per cent . |
| 14 | For Trud , the union paper which claims the largest daily sale of close to 20 million , the figure is 54 per cent . |
| 15 | Where the family unit is husband and wife the conventional figure is 33 per cent . |
| 16 | In Japan the figure is 90 per cent . |
| 17 | The work ethic is alive and well and living in a town where the official male unemployment figure is 15 per cent . |
| 18 | In Newham , the figure is 9 per cent . |
| 19 | Its strength lies partly in its scope , for Roman Catholics make up about 90 per cent of the population ; for instance , the figure is 89.1 per cent for Brazil ( LAB 1982 ) and 88.7 per cent for Mexico ( 1980 Census ) ; and also in its institutional links with other aspects of life , such as education , health , leisure and community activities . |
| 20 | In Hereford and Worcester , the amount of land covered by roads offices and houses has more than doubled since the war.In Gloucestershire the figure is ninety-five per cent , with a similar impact on pasture-land . |
| 21 | Strictly speaking , it is not a takeover offer at all , but it forms one of the exceptions to the main prohibition in the SARs ( namely , acquiring 10 per cent or more of the target company 's voting rights ( or rights over shares ) in any seven-day period if the resulting holding is 15 per cent or more ) . |
| 22 | In the 1980s the average annual growth rate in business investment was 6.7 per cent . |
| 23 | Molar loss from the maxilla was 14 per cent , based on 5 skulls and 2 half maxillae , and incisor loss was 8 per cent . |
| 24 | The result was 76 per cent in favour of the preservation of the Union as a " renewed federation of equal sovereign republics " . |
| 25 | In that year revenue was 47 per cent higher than it had been in 1783 . |
| 26 | Molar loss from the maxilla was 14 per cent , based on 5 skulls and 2 half maxillae , and incisor loss was 8 per cent . |
| 27 | Total recorded figures on these offences have increased by 378 per cent , but in 1981 fraud was 4.9 per cent of total crime , and in 1986 3.18 per cent of the total . |
| 28 | The percentage of aid given under the EC assistance programme was 13 per cent . |
| 29 | He eventually found that the ideal mix was 55 per cent Polled Lincoln Red , 35 per cent Polled Beef Shorthorn ( he had also succeeded in polling the latter ) and 10 per cent Aberdeen Angus , which improved the qualities he desired without reducing size and liveweight gains . |
| 30 | The completion rate for rating scales in this study was 100 per cent for the student samples . |