Example sentences of "amount to [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taxes on income by corporations , including profits tax , amount to nearly 10 per cent of the total . |
| 2 | It may appear surprising that three parts in the valve have been found to have no function at all and that they amount to over 5 per cent of the total cost . |
| 3 | It may appear surprising that three parts in the valve have been found to have no function at all and that they amount to over 5 per cent of the total cost . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In general , housing allowances amount to around 15 per cent of salary although company policy may allow for lower-paid employees to receive greater percentages than those given to the more highly paid . |
| 6 | Young adults ( aged 16–29 ) amount to only 5 per cent of the disabled population if everyone is included , a little more than that among the most severely impaired . |
| 7 | Single adults constitute 30 per cent of total lettings , with 13,000 of the group moving into association homes each year , most of them in poorly paid jobs or unemployed , whose rents amount to about 38 per cent of net income . |
| 8 | These subscriptions amount to about 20 per cent of the Science and Engineering Research |
| 9 | United States and Canada , but in the United States gifts amount to about 2 per cent of the GNP , in Canada 0.7 per cent and in the United Kingdom only O.55 per cent . |