Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | Both rounds were marked by a very low turnout , with only 20.87 per cent of the electorate participating in the second round . |
| 32 | During the Battle of Britain , Air Chief Marshal Dowding had the incomparable advantage of information from Ultra and he monitored its signals very carefully ; he knew , therefore , that only fifty per cent of the German aircraft were then serviceable , and so , on 15 September he sent up every available fighter plane against the enemy . |
| 33 | Thirdly , there are amendments in the name of the Government of the er Noble Earl Lord which are Amendments ten , fifteen and twenty and these provide for greater flexibility in the size of police authorities , again between sixteen and twenty-four members to be determined by the Secretary of State and for the Bill 's existing proposition that er fifty per cent of the members should be er and only fifty per cent of the members , should be from local authorities that er er er er that er of the remainder some should be magistrates and some should be members appointed by the Secretary of State and finally er there is a series of amendments er by the Noble Lord , Lord , Amendment seventeen , eighteen and twenty-two and those provide again with flexibility of size for er police authorities that half of the members should be from local authorities and the other half should be magistrates . |
| 34 | From 1981 to 1985 , US aid to El Salvador totalled US$1.7 billion , of which some 30 per cent was direct military aid ; 44.1 per cent was economic assistance to prop up El Salvador 's ailing economy , hard hit by the war ; 10.5 per cent was food aid ; and only 15.4 per cent went to development and governmental reform . |
| 35 | If they had done so , the economy would have retained a much fuller utilization of capacity , which in turn would have increased the companies ' profits ( from 1957 to 1963 the capacity utilization rate in manufacturing averaged only 80.5 per cent , nearly 12 per cent less than the peak achieved in 1966 ) . |
| 36 | The actual hardware , the turbine blades , covers only 2.3 per cent of the area exposed to the wind . |
| 37 | India 's growth rate has slowed by only 1.15 per cent over the last ten years , despite Indira Ghandi 's attempts to emulate China by offering a free transistor radio for every vasectomy . |
| 38 | But to begin with it will cover only 70 per cent of the country , excluding large chunks of the south coast where the cost of air time is highest and the pressure for competition greatest . |
| 39 | This display of aesthetic preference is not absolute , but probabilistic : given a choice between two colours that we know from learning experiments they can distinguish reliably — purple and blue , for example — the bees will choose their favourite , purple , only 70 per cent of the time rather than 100 per cent . |
| 40 | ‘ We are only 70 per cent fit for international rugby — and the players are well aware of that ’ , said coach Alan Davies . |
| 41 | On top of this , food eaten eight miles up needs extra seasoning because at altitude taste buds are only 70 per cent efficient . |
| 42 | They 've tried hard to reach owners of models that could be a potential problem but have still reached only 70 per cent of them . |
| 43 | The Pilgrim Trust 's survey of a sample of unemployed men included some 170,000 wives and it was calculated that these women ate only 70 per cent of the calories consumed by men , rather than the 85 per cent recommended by dieticians . |
| 44 | Even the ‘ sunnier ’ east received only 70 per cent of normal sunshine and Stornoway 's 22.9 hours represented the second dullest February on record ( since 1881 ) , the dullest being 1943 with 21.7 hours . |
| 45 | Our death rate went down seventy-five per cent in one week ! |
| 46 | Only 2.4 per cent slow talkers experienced later problems . |
| 47 | In 1985 only 2.4 per cent of farmers ' sons finding employment were engaged in farming . |
| 48 | The rise in wheat consumption slowed markedly since the early 1980s from an increase of 3.5 per cent a year to an average increase of only 2.4 per cent a year . |
| 49 | ADISOK ( Democratic Socialist Renewal Movement — formed by five reformist AKEL deputies in 1990 ) polled only 2.4 per cent , winning no seats . |
| 50 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 51 | Only eight per cent of children from low income families ( in the Registrar General 's social classes four and five ) go to university , even though they are guaranteed a free education through a full grant plus social security . |
| 52 | Only eight per cent of children from low income families ( in the Registrar General 's social classes four and five ) go to university , even though they are guaranteed a free education through a full grant plus social security . |
| 53 | Joseph Rothschild points out that in the inter-war period , the whole of Eastern Europe , excluding Russia , produced only eight per cent of European industrial production and that a third of that came from Czechoslovakia . |
| 54 | A deal with Labour was preferred by only eight per cent . |
| 55 | The survey , in the British Medical Journal , also found that only eight per cent of doctors knew how to use a thermometer . |
| 56 | And only eight per cent of those that did had engaged a lawyer to speak for them ‘ even though , where defendants are represented , they are more likely to receive a favourable outcome . ’ |
| 57 | The residents overwhelmingly support the restructuring , with 82 per cent regarding their residential situation as better or somewhat better than before and only eight per cent feeling that it is worse . |
| 58 | And among the many more who were overall satisfied and gave a specific comment , only eight per cent mentioned charges being too high ( see table 2 ) . |
| 59 | While two-thirds of the Broads should be made SSSIs , says the NCC , only eight per cent are classified as such . |
| 60 | And study after study comes up , even in this brave new world , about the fact that only eight per cent or so of the child care is actually done by men , and this goes right across the classes . |