Example sentences of "amounts to [adv] [num] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ close-look ’ satellite would cost as much again , The whole bill , says Bortzmeyer , amounts to just one per cent of the world 's current spending on its war machines . |
| 2 | Tests indicate that the increased calorie content of the faeces amounts to nearly ten per cent when people follow high-fibre diets . |
| 3 | ( Trade with OECD countries amounts to only 1.6 per cent . ) |
| 4 | Daresbury 's work for industry , which amounts to only 5 per cent of its activities , could double within a year , Professor Leadbetter said . |
| 5 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |
| 6 | ( 1976 ) have estimated that erosion has reduced the production potential of American cropland by 10–15 per cent , and that an estimated 5 gallon equivalent of fuel per acre is being used to offset past soil losses , which amounts to about 4 per cent of total oil imports in 1970 ( p.153 ) . |
| 7 | As a share of GNP , Soviet foreign trade amounts to about five per cent . |
| 8 | This amounts to about eighty per cent of zoo animals in Britain . |