Example sentences of "[adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |
| 32 | In April the ninth SPA was elected with the usual efficiency : turnout was claimed to be 99.78 per cent , with 100 per cent of votes cast for the successful candidates . |
| 33 | As was customary in North Korea the authorities reported that 99.73 per cent of the electorate had voted , in each instance for the sole candidate of the ruling KWP . |
| 34 | Delaporte Establishment — the nominee company which emerged earlier this week with a significant shareholding in merchant bank Morgan Grenfell — yesterday disclosed a 1.13 per cent Ferranti stake . |
| 35 | In run-off presidential elections held on July 5 , Sixto Durán Ballén , 71 , leader of the right-wing United Republican Party ( PUR ) , won 19 of the 21 provinces with a total of 2,174,860 votes ( 57.9 per cent of the vote ) , defeating Jaime Nebot Saadi , 46 , of the ( also right-wing ) Social Christian Party ( PSC ) , who received 1,584,482 votes ( 42.1 per cent ) . |
| 36 | A union spokesman said a two and a half per cent pay offer failed to reflect the record profits made by and the huge improvements in productivity at the plant . |
| 37 | All pay awards are , have been settled at one and a half per cent , and I do n't propose to go into any of the the detail . |
| 38 | That , the increa there is an increase over the Wellent er Flood Defence , Wellent and Flood Defence Committee , two and a half per cent , but that as Severn Trent , is set at a zero increase . |
| 39 | Overall , if one aggregates those three things , the level of settlement for the county was down thirty- one per cent on the year , compared with a national total , which was also in distress of fourteen and a half per cent down . |
| 40 | We 've got inflation that I , it looks to be pressing perhaps to three , three and a half per cent , between four and three and a half per cent . |
| 41 | We 've got inflation that I , it looks to be pressing perhaps to three , three and a half per cent , between four and three and a half per cent . |
| 42 | But in view of the fact that different actuaries can come to different answers and Professor Good quotes one where a difference of half per cent gives rise to a difference of a hundred and sixty seven million . |
| 43 | Yes that 's why I 've the increase of twelve and a half per cent on it . |
| 44 | and er if they were if they were n't making a reasonable amount you know , eight and a half per cent , ten and a half on some of them . |
| 45 | You know , one and a half per cent . |
| 46 | Yeah , so if I gave you , twelve and a half per cent . |
| 47 | Twelve and a half per cent 's going to be twelve and a half over a hundred , er , oh , well , we 're going to cancel , but first of all we could go the opposite way , and multiply , just to get rid of this fraction . |
| 48 | So twelve and a half per cent is an eighth . |
| 49 | Seventeen and a half per cent is something horrible , it just does n't work out to anything reasonable |
| 50 | ninety nine and a half per cent . |
| 51 | Secondly the decision is a nineteen ninety one budget by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who raised the level of the Value Added Tax to seventeen and a half per cent from fifteen per cent hit the income of the majority of County Federation and certainly the National Federation because Customs and Excise when VAT was introduced ruled that the annual subscriptions was made VATable . |
| 52 | When the Tory government announced the one and a half per cent pay ceiling for public service workers , many public service workers quite rightly so , were angry . |
| 53 | I honestly believe that the rail workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent , other workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent if they believed that they were on their own that they were gon na fight in isolation . |
| 54 | I honestly believe that the rail workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent , other workers would n't have accepted the one and a half per cent if they believed that they were on their own that they were gon na fight in isolation . |
| 55 | Well , the fact is that erm only at present only twelve some twelve and a half per cent , one in eight , of our young people in the eighteen to twenty-one age group go on to any kind of higher education . |
| 56 | For those wanting monthly income , Town & Country again tops the bill offering 11.85 per cent on its Classic Account for sums of £25,000 or more . |
| 57 | A discount of 2.5 per cent is given on the variable rate , currently 11.85 per cent , until June 1992 . |
| 58 | However , a 1939 survey of the health of 1,250 working class wives found only 31.3 per cent to be in good health , 22.3 per cent were categorised as ‘ indifferent ’ , 15.2 per cent as ‘ bad ’ and 31.2 per cent as ‘ very grave ’ . |
| 59 | Levi and Sharon received 31.2 per cent and 22.3 per cent of the votes respectively . |
| 60 | Johnnies ' newspaper interests include two major South African newspaper groups , Argus Holdings Limited ( 22.3 per cent ) and Times Media Limited ( 32.1 per cent ) which in turn have a large stake in South Africas only subscription TV station . |