Example sentences of "[be] [adv] around [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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1 | Property prices are down around 30-35 per cent from the high of 1988 , and for waterside locations have plummeted by 40 per cent , says Dai Jenkins of Gribble , Booth & Taylor , who have branches in Devon , Cornwall , Somerset and Dorset . |
2 | However , as a broad generalisation , premiums are usually around 0.5 per cent and upwards of the annual sales you want covered . |
3 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
4 | This is usually around 50 per cent , which can be a serious disadvantage . |
5 | But , with rental companies such as Britain 's Thorn-EMI backing the Japanese VHS system , the market share for Europe 's only manufacturer of recorders is still around 5 per cent in Britain and 20 per cent in Western Europe as a whole . |
6 | He pointed out in Committee that , according to the Audit Commission , the proportion in inner city areas is probably around 40 per cent . |
7 | As expenditure has risen so have taxes and the proportion of G N P taken up by taxes and social security payments is also around 40 per cent . |
8 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
9 | Thus cheese is now around 18 per cent more expensive than it was before Black Monday . |
10 | Voter turnout was only around 42 per cent , however . |
11 | Between 1932 and 1939 when the bank rate was 2 per cent , a building society 's advance was normally around 80 per cent of the value of the house spread over fifteen to twenty years at 4 to 6 per cent interest . |
12 | There was general agreement that no new money could easily be found for heavily indebted African or South American countries at present ; meanwhile United States delegates told the conference that US monetary policy would be kept tight in order to combat inflation , which was currently around 4.5 per cent . |