Example sentences of "to [adv] 50 [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Big Three US carmakers , who controlled more than 85 per cent of the luxury market 10 years ago , saw their share drop to below 50 per cent last year . |
| 2 | According to the government 's privatization strategy , by 1994 the proportion of state assets should be reduced to below 50 per cent , with foreign ownership reaching 25 per cent . |
| 3 | The Roman empire saw the increasing debasement of its staple silver coin : from almost pure silver in the early first century AD it sank to only 50 per cent fine by about AD200 and to only about 1–2 per cent by AD270 . |
| 4 | The evidence for this is derived from reported clinical and autopsy data in which macrovascular disease accounts for about 75 per cent of all deaths in diabetics , compared to approximately 50 per cent in the non-diabetic population ( Ganda , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | In terms of area the share of Western Europe rose from 29 to nearly 50 per cent , North America from 12 to 16 per cent , while the sterling area ( developed ) fell from 23 to 13 per cent and the sterling area ( developing ) from 22 to 12 per cent . |
| 6 | For married women this rate increased dramatically over the post-war period , from about 22 per cent in 1951 to nearly 50 per cent in 1979 ( Central Statistical Office , 1978 , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | For example , Tomei Industrial ( Holdings ) , an electronics company with 95 per cent of its production in China , accelerated expansion plans in Malaysia and Thailand , and hopes to cut China-based output to about 50 per cent of total production . |
| 8 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 9 | Raw materials amount to almost 50 per cent of costs , but suppliers will be lucky to pass on more than 5 per cent , Jim Leng believes . |
| 10 | John Hinde , the accident recorder for the mountain rescue committee of Scotland , to which all the teams are affiliated , argues that navigation problems contribute to around 50 per cent of all accidents on Scotland 's mountains . |
| 11 | The success of the strategy is again evident in the mushrooming if the Bentley brand 's share of the overall Rolls Royce group registrations from six per cent in 1982 ( when the original Mulsanne Turbo was announced ) to virtually 50 per cent in 1989 . |
| 12 | A recent study by the North London Polytechnic shows that about 27 per cent of men have been victims of some unwanted sexual contact before they are 18 , compared to over 50 per cent for women . |