Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] 20 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1979 and 1990 , 1,250,000 council houses , or about 20 per cent of the total stock , was sold to sitting tenants . |
| 2 | In the early 1870s a six-week round trip for two people from London via Belgium , the Rhine Valley , Switzerland and France — perhaps still the standard tourist itinerary — cost about £85 , or roughly 20 per cent of the income of a man earning £8 a week , which would have been a respectable servant-keeping income in those days . |
| 3 | Here , similar classes were emerging but only about 10 per cent were able to employ wage labour regularly and only 20 per cent provided it regularly . |
| 4 | Kahan called for 80 per cent specialisation in areas such as children 's services and only 20 per cent on general social work training . |
| 5 | There was , however , disappointment for the government on both counts : investment by industry in the inner cities has remained relatively small , and only 20 per cent of the funds for the first City Technology Colleges came from non-government sources . |
| 6 | Only 10 per cent of the 1940–4 birth cohort of women ( now aged 45–50 ) remained childless ; this figure is expected to rise to at least 15 per cent and possibly 20 per cent for the 1960–4 birth cohort ( Werner 1986 , OPCS 1989a , figure 4.9 ) . |
| 7 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |
| 8 | Only about 10 per cent of expenditure went on services that were clearly pro poor and about 20 per cent were biased toward those services ( e.g. education , roads , leisure services ) that favoured the better off . |
| 9 | Quite a few of you are dissatisfied with your showers ; 25 per cent are unhappy with its performance and almost 20 per cent with its ease of use . |
| 10 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in Leicester almost a third of all women workers and almost 20 per cent . |
| 11 | For those aged 75 and over 20 per cent of men and 16 per cent of women reported an in-patient stay in hospital in the previous year . |
| 12 | Eight per cent of women aged 18 — 49 were cohabiting in 1988 , and over 20 per cent of those had never been married ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 13 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 14 | Many had considerable reading and writing skills , but about 20 per cent were recent immigrants , often with language difficulties . |