Example sentences of "[adv] only [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although coronary disease was , and still is , the number one killer of American men , in any particular year it claims perhaps only 1 per cent of the male population . |
| 2 | Third , only a small proportion of those leaving the cities moved to new towns , perhaps only 10 per cent . |
| 3 | Even in the university centres , perhaps only 50 per cent of cases are notified , while reporting from private practitioners is non-existent . |
| 4 | OK , give it ten years and perhaps only 20 per cent will be producing what 60 per cent or 70 per cent were twenty-five years ago . |
| 5 | While Palermo ( 1973 ) , for example , found that four-to five-year-olds responded appropriately to more nearly all the time , but to less only 39 per cent of the time , an earlier study by Griffiths , Shantz and Sigel ( 1967 ) reported that children of that age understood both more and less almost equally well ( 70 per cent and 65 per cent ) . |
| 6 | Capacity utilisation for these five factories is thus only 44.2 per cent . |
| 7 | Statistically only 0–05 per cent of chance tetrads should come out at this length or less , so that the expected number of alignments like Craigeam lies between 0.00041 for standing stones and 0.0037 for stone circles . |
| 8 | Those under 17 years of age will not be eligible ; also very few women over the age of 65 ( possibly only 4 per cent ) and only 7 per cent of women in skilled and unskilled manual occupations have their own cars . |
| 9 | In fact when each rises by say , five per cent the total increase is still only five per cent . |
| 10 | But here in the UK it is still only 7 per cent . |
| 11 | At the other extreme , special educational needs — with only a third as many courses as social issues — accounted for slightly more teacher-days , although still only 11 per cent of the total time . |
| 12 | The amount of reclaimed glass used in manufacture doubled between 1983 and 1988 , but this is still only 16 per cent of the total . |
| 13 | This difference increased with the age of the youngest child in the family , so that by the time the latter had reached 11 years old still only 44 per cent of the mothers of disabled children were in paid work compared with 87 per cent of control group mothers . |
| 14 | Similarly only 13 per cent gave the correct name to the net of a cuboid while 70 per cent described it as a " rectangle " or " oblong " . |
| 15 | Total remission is seen in under half of the children but more often only 10–20 per cent completely stop bedwetting . |
| 16 | The provision of statutory services to the elderly has risen since 1948 , but not sufficiently to keep pace with the increasing number of dependants and the decreasing pool of informal carers ( even now only 11 per cent of people aged 85 and over receive meals-on-wheels , 37 per cent a home help ; OPCS , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Polls in 1963 confirmed that in American eyes Britain was still the most dependable ally , but Gallup in July also recorded that West Germany ( 58 per cent ) was now only 5 per cent behind Britain . |
| 18 | These are the areas in which the remaining forest lands are located ; now only 22 per cent of the country is forested in comparison to nearly 100 per cent in 1900 and 66 per cent in 1945 ( Myers 1988 ) , which in itself constitutes a loss of revenue as timber exports ( a major source of foreign currency ) have declined in the last 20 years . |
| 19 | Growth rates in the North are well below the world average and thus its population will increase by about only 20 per cent between 1980 and 2025 . |
| 20 | As recently as five years ago only 10 per cent . |
| 21 | Banks appear to be growing in popularity : a year ago only 17 per cent would have bought life cover through a bank . |
| 22 | Five years ago only five per cent of all diesels sold in Britain were turbocharged ; now it 's 30 per cent.The 19 DX is a fine example of a 1990s diesel — quick yet quiet ; economical but with all the trimmings of a GTi . |
| 23 | Ten years ago only 6 per cent . |
| 24 | Here only five per cent of the light filters through . |
| 25 | In Britain today only 9 per cent of those over sixty live with another relative apart from their own spouse , in contrast to 12 per cent in the United States , 14 per cent in France , and 29 per cent in Japan and China . |
| 26 | Unfortunately only 8 per cent of the children can go on to higher [ secondary ] education . |
| 27 | If one parent is obese , 40 per cent of the children will be obese , and if both parents are lean , then only 10 per cent will be obese . |
| 28 | Under a licensing arrangement , Virgin would receive a cash advance from the American licensee , deductible from royalties , and then only 15–18 per cent of the price of all records sold . |
| 29 | A survey by Living Magazine ( 14.8.89 ) which questioned 1,000 women , found that one-third had received obscene phone calls in the last year , 20 per cent of this group more than once , yet only 26 per cent had told the police , 13 per cent had been interfered with and 87 per cent of these kept silent ; 9 per cent had suffered indecent exposure and 92 per cent failed to report this . |
| 30 | Yet only five per cent of that volume comes from Scotland and a massive 70 per cent from the South-east . |