Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] 10 [no cls] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manganese nodules with over 10 per cent Mn occur in Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland . |
| 2 | Manganese nodules with over 10 per cent Mn occur in Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland but resources are probably small . |
| 3 | Outside London there was only a handful of districts with over 10 per cent of their population living in households with a NCWP-born head Luton and Slough in the South East , Birmingham , Sand well and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands , Blackburn in Lancashire , and the City of Leicester , being the highest at 21.7 per cent in 1981 . |
| 4 | Catalysts are expected to cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars to about 10 per cent by 1989 levels by the year 2006 . |
| 5 | First , they see various loan options where the APR dropped from 49 per cent for six-month repayment periods to only 10 per cent for 36-month periods . |
| 6 | One estimate is that the new independent labels and distributors accounted , by the mid-1980s for nearly 10 per cent of British record sales . |
| 7 | But the north of England , Yorkshire and Humberside fared significantly worse with increases in the number of business failures of over 10 per cent . |
| 8 | Moreover , whilst in the retailing sector enterprises might supplement their labour forces by about 10 per cent to cope with seasonal peaks , in the holidays sector the increase made might be as high as several hundred per cent . |
| 9 | However , the process is by no means uniform and Table 5.3 shows that a small number of towns in the rural districts actually lost population between 1971 and 1981 , although the dominant trend was increases of over 10 per cent in both of the rural categories at the foot of the table . |
| 10 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 11 | We have on average increased our consumption of fruit and vegetables by approximately 10 per cent , with the exception of those in the unemployed and working class categories . |
| 12 | If the electricity currently provided by nuclear power stations were to be generated by coal , the United Kingdom would emit about 55 million tonnes more carbon dioxide , increasing total emissions by about 10 per cent . |
| 13 | London , Liverpool and Glasgow lost some , but other cities including Edinburgh , Bristol and Cardiff increased their service-sector jobs by approximately 10 per cent and their information service jobs by 20–30 per cent . |