Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | Every year he expects to lose around 10 per cent of his lambs . |
| 32 | Western Europe produced around 10 per cent throughout this period , and the rest of the world only some 3 per cent . |
| 33 | The UK chemical industry is one of the most successful parts of the economy producing around 10 per cent of the net manufacturing output and placing Britain among the top four chemical exporting nations . |
| 34 | The management team , led by Peter Jansen , which originally put up 10 per cent of the £12m equity element of the buyout , has seen its investment increase 60-fold at the MB Group offer price . |
| 35 | Of the final quarter , I 'd put about 10 per cent into a straight emerging markets fund … and the rest into US smaller companies through the Hypo Foreign & Colonial fund . |
| 36 | Martin ( 1988 ) aggregates employment in a wider group of growth sectors and calculates that the South East region 's share of employment is over 41 per cent , with East Anglia and the South West together claiming over 10 per cent more . |
| 37 | At the more local scale of the metropolitan districts , the changes expected for Knowsley and Liverpool are as big as -18.2 and -16.1 per cent respectively , while Gateshead and Salford are also projected to lose over 10 per cent of their population in this 16-year period . |
| 38 | Because of the drought , cotton farmers in north-western New South Wales are receiving only 10 per cent of their normal allocation of water from irrigation projects , while the cost of water has risen by as much as 30 per cent . |
| 39 | Half of India 's forest has been destroyed over the last 40 years , leaving only 10 per cent coverage . |
| 40 | The court extended job reservation to underprivileged sections of religious minorities , but refused to sanction a proposal by the present government setting aside 10 per cent of posts for poorer members of the upper castes . |
| 41 | Having consolidated his base , he launched an aggressive drive that led to the take-over of Newcastle Breweries and several smaller Edinburgh companies to form Scottish & Newcastle , which by the time he retired as chairman in 1969 was supplying about 10 per cent of British beer sales . |
| 42 | What impact the British offer would have on the brain drain , which is expected to push over 10 per cent of the population out of the colony before China 's 1997 takeover , was not clear . |
| 43 | In 1923 they controlled only 10 per cent of evening titles . |
| 44 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
| 45 | Morainic drift with a typical hummocky landform occupies about 10 per cent of the Outer Hebrides . |
| 46 | Brooks Marketing , which owns the Burke 's franchise , is offering about 10 per cent of its equity in return for £150,000 . |
| 47 | ‘ Think how long BBC2 and Channel 4 have been on the air and they still have barely 10 per cent of the British audience . |