Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the evolution of a new unique sequence with a new function may require the selective modification of as few as 5 per cent of the bases . |
| 2 | Barker 's ( 1984 , p. 22 ) review of the living arrangements of elderly people of Asian and Afro-Caribbean origin indicates that almost three-quarters of Asian elderly people live in large households and as few as 5 per cent live alone , whereas the household composition of elderly people of Afro-Caribbean origin is similar to that in the white population . |
| 3 | In cities , poor families spend a much larger proportion on energy-often as much as 12–15 per cent of their income . |
| 4 | Thereafter , this ratio increased rapidly , rising to as much as 27 per cent in 1986 . |
| 5 | Mr Major said that not only had the Budget extended the export credit guarantee scheme but : ‘ Mr Lamont has also cut premiums over the last few months by as much as 27 per cent to help exporters . ’ |
| 6 | Daily electricity blackouts in Manila were causing industry to lose output valued at $1,100 per day , which could reduce economic growth over the year by as much as 1 per cent . |
| 7 | Average personal income rose in real terms by as much as 5 per cent per annum in the early 1960s , and continued to grow by an average of more than 1 per cent per year in the 1970s , resuming a level of 2–3 per cent per year in 1983–88 . |
| 8 | Cuts in military spending which absorbed as much as 5 per cent of the gross national product ( GNP ) of developing countries , would constitute the chief source of additional resources . |
| 9 | In spite of massive investment and attention , in the 1980s 50 per cent of potatoes and 60 per cent of citrus fruits grown on state or collective farms spoil before reaching market ; private plots , accounting for four per cent of arable land , supply 25 per cent of total output ( 30 per cent of meat and dairy products and 40 per cent of fruit ) ; and the bill for overseas imports consumes as much as 45 per cent of hard currency earnings . |
| 10 | As much as 14 per cent of the Amazon basin has been destroyed , especially in Brazil and Colombia ( figure 6.13 ) . |
| 11 | The government 's decision to devalue the taka by as much as 11 per cent in 1990 , reportedly in response to the IMF 's pressure for a 15 per cent devaluation to improve the competitiveness of the country 's exports , helped ease the balance-of-payments deficit , leading by May 1991 to foreign exchange reserves standing at around US$700,000,000 . |
| 12 | However , there is a net outflow of as much as 10 per cent and it is this ‘ lost ’ fluid which is drained by the lymphatics and returned to the circulation . |
| 13 | Many estimate that countertrade accounts for as much as 10 per cent of Brazil 's exports of both raw materials and manufactured goods . |
| 14 | One problem it would address is the proportion of grants — as much as 10 per cent — that are lost to currency conversions because French research institutes can not hold foreign currencies . |
| 15 | Some companies never go to the new issues market , and it has been calculated that ‘ in the past decade , in no single year have ordinary share issues accounted for as much as 10 per cent of the sources of capital funds , and the average has been less than half that amount ’ . |
| 16 | In addition , as much as 10 per cent . |
| 17 | The report stated that while the number of new settlements had levelled off in recent years , the Jewish population in the occupied territories was growing by as much as 10 per cent annually . |
| 18 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 19 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 20 | In Canada retail sales have been growing by as much as eight per cent a year , even after inflation . |
| 21 | Between 1950 and 1979 neither Labour nor Conservative ever had as much as 55 per cent ofthe combined two-party vote . |
| 22 | More recent figures suggest that by 1987 Albanians amounted to as much as 85 per cent of the population of Kosovo . |
| 23 | A Some flame-effect fires do tend to send most of the heat they produce up the chimney — sometimes as much as 85 per cent . |
| 24 | As much as 85 per cent of cars had a radio , and over half were used whenever the car was driven . |
| 25 | The mainstream right already controls the Senate , almost all the regional councils ( 19 out of 21 ) , three-quarters of the departmental councils and a majority of the municipal councils — and now it looks likely to win at least 75 per cent and possibly as much as 85 per cent of the seats in the National Assembly . |
| 26 | Designed to improve shock tolerance and data reliability , SafeRite is capable of increasing shock resistance in hard drives by as much as 100 per cent , claims the company . |
| 27 | From past experience , that figure could be out by as much as 100 per cent . |
| 28 | According to the Soviet news agency Tass , prices of dairy products would rise by about 25 per cent and bread by as much as 100 per cent . |
| 29 | Then the US gave as much as two per cent of its gross national product every year to Europe . |
| 30 | What this means is well illustrated by the fact that the Company accounts for as much as two per cent of UK power consumption . |