Example sentences of "[vb pp] only [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his report to the 65th session of the IMO Council meeting on Nov. 5-9 , he said that the organization had so far received only 63 per cent of the contributions due for 1990 — the lowest figure for many years . |
| 2 | As a minority shareholding interest in an unquoted company , his shares would have attracted only 30 per cent relief , leaving £21,000 ( £30,000 — £9,000 ) for inclusion in his estate for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 3 | However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change . |
| 4 | We sell these bags at £2.49 and have added only 15 per cent profit . ’ |
| 5 | The 20 per cent of the poorest households , who had claimed only 0.9 per cent of the ‘ original income ’ , rose through welfare benefits and other supplementary assistance to a ‘ final income ’ share of 9.0 per cent . |
| 6 | He replaced Diogo Freitas do Amaral , who resigned in October 1991 , after the party had polled only 4.4 per cent of the vote in that month 's general election [ see p. 38546 ] . |
| 7 | On the previous day Harkin had won only 1 per cent of the vote in the Nevada caucus , which had been won by Brown with 35 per cent ; Clinton had polled 26 per cent , Tsongas 20 per cent , and 17 per cent of the votes had been cast for uncommitted delegates . |
| 8 | It is not fair , perhaps , that with 23 per cent of the vote the Alliance should have won only 3 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons . |
| 9 | However , only 43 per cent were paid more than £5 per week above the minimum , and full-time male farm workers in 1977 still earned only 77 per cent of the average earnings of all male manual workers . |
| 10 | The tables show that these birds at best occupied only 25 per cent . |
| 11 | The new rate , which compared with levels of 14 per cent in October 1990 , followed news that factory-gate prices had risen only 5.7 per cent year-on-year in June , compared with 6 per cent in May . |
| 12 | Dave Simmonds , head of economic policy at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations , said that other European governments levied only 5 per cent on national lotteries . |
| 13 | The other had classified only sixteen per cent of charges in this manner . |
| 14 | The offer made them a special case but by the same token was condemned by other groups such as the ancillary workers , who protested that they were offered only 4 per cent . |
| 15 | They 've tried hard to reach owners of models that could be a potential problem but have still reached only 70 per cent of them . |
| 16 | The annual report of the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) , released on Dec. 19 , showed that poor countries spent an average 12 per cent of their budgets on health and education , while rich countries allocated only 10 per cent of their aid to these sectors in the developing world . |
| 17 | According to CIA estimates , Latin America ( excluding Cuba ) was allocated only 5.6 per cent of the aid extended by the Soviet Union to all non-Communist developing countries over the period 1954–78 , and received less than 2.5 per cent of Soviet military deliveries to the Third World . |
| 18 | The first was that the Maronite community — which at best constituted only 30 per cent of the Lebanese — was almost certainly outnumbered by the Sunnis or the Shias . |
| 19 | Mr Ashdown , too , must face a bleak future , having scored only 18 per cent of the vote against 22.5 per cent for the Alliance after what was called a disastrous campaign in 1987 . |
| 20 | Businesses in the decline phase of their life-cycle achieved only 30 per cent of potential performance . |