Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leicestershire only 22 per cent of taxpayers overall were classed as wage earners , compared with 37 per cent in Rutland next door . |
| 2 | However , figures from market researchers Verdict suggest that in 1988 , Comet had 7.6 per cent of the market , Lasky 's — since bought by Kingfisher — 1.2 per cent and Dixons almost 18 per cent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 5 | However , in autumn until late December about 70 per cent . |
| 6 | Whereas in Scotland over 36 per cent of graduates obtained a pass , ordinary or general degree in 1986 , the figure for the UK as a whole was only 12.7 per cent , with the majority of pass degrees in England being in the fields of medicine , dentistry or veterinary science ( Source : USR ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The ICI business and the sales generated at Bremen give Courtaulds about 70 per cent of the aerospace coatings market in Germany . ’ |
| 8 | In the United Kingdom over 95 per cent of males with acute , uncomplicated gonorrhoea will develop symptoms of some sort . |
| 9 | The problems appear critical for the 20 per cent of the Merseyside population living in the poorest council housing and especially in the district of Knowsley where 48 per cent of the population ( six times the national average ) live in such areas . |
| 10 | Belgium , Denmark , France , Ireland and Italy all have growth rates of over 1 per cent. , Spain , Portugal and Holland over 2 per cent. , and Germany and Luxembourg over 3 per cent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He announced that by September only 38 per cent of the US$3,360 million in promised Soviet imports had been delivered , a figure already reduced from $5,130 million in 1990 . |
| 13 | According to the findings of a national survey described by Audrey Hunt about 85 per cent of all adult British women are housewives ( Oakley , 1974 , p. 29 ) . |
| 14 | Of the 300,000 women estimated to be doing home-work in Britain today 72 per cent receive less than the legal minimum hourly wage , three quarters of those get 1 ( $1.60 ) or less and some make as little as 20p ( 30 cents ) an hour . |
| 15 | In both the UK and the US over 40 per cent of workers are expected to stay with their first employer for over 20 years ( Collier and Knight 1985 p.21 ) . |
| 16 | The fact that in 1992 only 37 per cent of voters think of themselves as Labour supporters but that on Thursday only 35 per cent actually voted Labour indicates that the party was scarcely able to poll its ‘ core ’ strength . |
| 17 | If the views of ‘ undecided ’ voters are removed from The Northern Echo poll equation as happens with many national polls by organisations like Mori and Gallup then our poll figures would translate into : Labour 51 ; Conservatives 36 ; Lib Dems 13 and the BNP just one per cent . |
| 18 | One contrast , however , was that of the thirty-two cardinals created by Innocent nearly 50 per cent were masters ( men who had been at universities ) . |
| 19 | The highest rate was in Lambeth where 32 per cent of all families were one parent families , followed by Hackney with 31 per cent . |
| 20 | For a quotation on the USM only 10 per cent of the shares must be in the possession of the general public . |
| 21 | The rapid returners , where three-quarters struck at the outset , but by mid-November only 10 per cent had not returned to work . |
| 22 | Apparently the most satisfied females are in Switzerland where 83 per cent say they are happy with their love lives . |