Example sentences of "[adv] less [conj] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the turn of the century , some two million men and women , rather less than 5 per cent of the working population , were employed in mines and factories . |
| 2 | Prior to Puhlhofer , failure to obtain leave to proceed by judicial review occurred in less than 10 per cent of the applications . |
| 3 | In the 1960s , out of a higher total level of gold production ( which peaked in 1965 ) much less than 10 per cent reached the reserves , constituting an increase of a mere 3 per cent . |
| 4 | Erm I would n't there are ten per cent , well perhaps less than ten per cent who are absolute loonies . |
| 5 | The shares concerned must consist of or include shares carrying 75 per cent or more of the voting rights attributable to share capital which are exercisable in all circumstances at any general meeting of the company or , when added to the shares already held by the offeror , carry not less than 75 per cent . |
| 6 | No trading licence may be issued to any company which has directly or indirectly interest in an already-existing security trading company exceeding 10 per cent ( provided the direct participation is not less than 5 per cent ) . |
| 7 | Cable & Wireless finance director , Mr Rod Olsen , said the size of the stake being discussed was ‘ not less than 10 per cent and not more than 20 per cent ’ which would cost CITIC between £375million and £750 million . |
| 8 | The board also announced that , in the absence of unforeseen circumstances , it would recommend a final dividend of not less than 4p , making a total of 7p , representing an increase of not less than 16.7 per cent . |
| 9 | The privatisation programme , it was proposed , would take place in three stages , with not less than 20 per cent of the republic 's assets in private hands by the end of 1992 . |
| 10 | The agreement which the union negotiated is that commercial radio stations must spend not less than 3 per cent of their net advertising revenue on the employment of musicians . |
| 11 | Conversely , the statutes may provide that a government agency or a financial institution holding not less than 30 per cent of the registered capital may exercise voting rights of 51 per cent of the shareholders . |
| 12 | ( 5 ) If the partial offer could result in not less than 30 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained , the offer must state the precise number of shares offered for and may not be declared unconditional as to acceptances unless acceptances are received for not less than that number ( Rule 36.4 ) . |
| 13 | The proportion of the national area of thirteen tropical American countries described as steep sloped is very high — 80 per cent for Honduras , Panama , Haiti and the Dominican Republic and not less than 50 per cent for eleven of the thirteen . |
| 14 | In fact the purchasing power of a single person 's pension in Britain was just less than 75 per cent of the French pension , 60 per cent of its West German counterpart and only 50 per cent of the value of the equivalent Dutch pension . |
| 15 | A five-year survival rate in lung cancer is still less than ten per cent . |
| 16 | Adding the HCA operations would give it over 1,500 beds — still less than 20 per cent of the private hospital beds in the UK . |
| 17 | Results showed that the President obtained slightly less than 82 per cent of the vote ( in 1985 he claimed to have received 100 per cent — p. 33963 ) , with his strongest constituency in rural areas . |
| 18 | In that 13 years manufacturing output under his Government in Britain has gone up less than 6 per cent . |
| 19 | In total women make up less than 20 per cent of the labour force in large private sector firms and the majority are young and unmarried who leave before they have accumulated more than 10 years service . |
| 20 | Local authorities would be obliged to allocate 15 per cent of council housing to people from depressed areas , and in areas where council housing made up less than 20 per cent of housing , the local authority would be obliged to make a 15 per cent contribution to its construction . |
| 21 | The manager and chairman are such strangers to national television that probably less than 10 per cent of football fans would be able to name them , let alone recognise them . |
| 22 | Experimentally it is found that while Hooke 's law and its viscoelastic analogue of Boltzmann 's superposition principle hold adequately for very small strains ( typically less than 0.1 per cent ) they certain do not hold for large strains of 10 per cent or more . |
| 23 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 24 | The Anglo population is now less than 50 per cent and continues to fall . |
| 25 | Yet less than 4 per cent of wills , 1525–60 , were made by leather workers , two-thirds of whom were tanners , manufacturing crafts being relatively inconspicuous . |
| 26 | Rojas et al. ( 1988 ) have reviewed the situation in St Lucia where less than 5 per cent of the island 's 617 km 2 can be cultivated without incurring environmental problems . |
| 27 | No less than eighty-five per cent of the catering and retail outlets and eighty-four per cent of the accommodation establishments were found to be locally owned in the six locations where detailed research was done : Arundel , Broadway , Chipping Campden , Lavenham , Long Melford and Woodstock . |
| 28 | The survey added that because of the move towards leaner operations , no less than 80 per cent of the managers feel stress as a result of their work and that 12 per cent of these ‘ to some degree ’ resort to drink . |
| 29 | [ No less than 85 per cent of C&P 's output is sold in Europe , although its products reach over 130 countries in all throughout the world . ] |
| 30 | Its per capita wealth was nearly double that of the four nearby rural hundreds , with almost four-fifths of the aggregate concentrated in the hands of twenty-nine rich , or very rich , men ; no less than 41.6 per cent belonged to the top five , compared with the ‘ normal ’ 9.6 in villages and small towns . |