Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [num] [unc] cent " 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 | Of the residents who voted 53.4 per cent were for closure and 46.6 per cent in favour of keeping it open . |
| 3 | After four years around of quarter of them had developed AIDS and ten per cent had died . |
| 4 | Currently , hydrocarbons account for a third of Norway 's gross exports , 15 per cent of revenue and 17 per cent of Gross National Product . |
| 5 | In 1988 mining represented 22 per cent of GDP and contributed nearly two-thirds of export revenue and 90 per cent of budget revenue . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They had proposed astonishing increases of 24.3 per cent for the judiciary and 19.4 per cent for senior civil servants . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In a 95.5 per cent turnout , 94.39 per cent voted in favour of secession and 0.46 per cent against . |
| 15 | It can be seen that 17 per cent altogether were employed , including 6 per cent with part-time study and 11 per cent without ( this is an overestimate as it is a category which also included the ‘ unclassifiable ’ — not all of whom were in work ) . |
| 16 | The researchers found 17 per cent of their random sample of Camberwell women to be sufficiently severely depressed to be considered cases at some time in the year : 8 per cent onset and 9 per cent chronic . |
| 17 | were considered to be arctica and 45 per cent . |
| 18 | in the north-east and 65 per cent . |
| 19 | The maximum housing benefit you can receive is 100 per cent of your eligible rent and 80 per cent of your eligible rates . |
| 20 | If income is at or below the applicable amount ( the eligibility rates for income support ) the maximum rebate will be paid , which is 100 per cent for rent and 80 per cent for rates . |
| 21 | New-product sales , which include the anti-emetic , Zofran , and Imigran , the migraine treatment , generated sales of £245 million , which represent 11 per cent of turnover and 29 per cent of turnover growth . |
| 22 | The deal , which needs the approval of the Office of Fair Trading and the European Commission , will give British Steel control over 35 per cent of the UK stockholding industry and 5 per cent of the European Community stockholding market . |
| 23 | By now 40 per cent of manufacturing industry , 50 per cent of construction industry and 60 per cent of retail trade and services will have been turned into joint-stock companies , privatized or leased . |
| 24 | This would mean that the Government could have complete control of the money supply and could set interest rates at different levels — say five per cent to industry and 15 per cent to importers of non-essential goods . |
| 25 | The survey showed that there was ‘ unofficial ’ discrimination against them in industry and 59 per cent said the engineering career structure worked against women succeeding . |
| 26 | The survey showed that there was ‘ unofficial ’ discrimination against them in industry and 59 per cent said the engineering career structure worked against women succeeding . |
| 27 | For example , 80 per cent of our tin and 75 per cent of our bauxite come from the Third World . |
| 28 | An autopsy found that Seth had cocaine and Percodan in his blood and .3 per cent alcohol — three times the legal limit . |
| 29 | ( Merrill Lynch 's 1984 Study , based on a sample of 149 major UK organisations , found that 90 per cent of these firms transferred employees ' personal and household effects , 21 per cent covered the cost of the sale of the UK home , 14 per cent managed and/or let the UK home on behalf of the employee and 6 per cent bought the employee 's UK home . ) |
| 30 | The rock mixture is 80% tufa rock and 20 per cent living rock . |