Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] 50 [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.

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1 At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent .
2 Similarly , POC is constrained above 50 per cent accuracy and POE is constrained below 50 per cent accuracy .
3 ‘ He told us other rises throughout the country have averaged around 50 per cent . ’
4 Wood shortages for both uses are now widespread , not least because many rainforest areas outside the reserves , which in the pre-1960 period supplied about 50 per cent of the country 's timber output , are now exhausted .
5 The increase in tax rates for higher earners , which would follow a Labour victory on Thursday , would then be comparable to the top tax rate across the Irish Sea , which this month is to be reduced below 50 per cent .
6 In six tests for the Wallabies since the World Cup final his success ratio has dipped below 50 per cent .
7 Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " .
8 Cocaine seizures by Customs have gone up 50 per cent this year , the Home Office minister , Mr David Mellor , told the Commons during a debate on the misuse of drugs .
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