Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | Additionality will drop from 50 per cent under the Highlands ' previously anticipated Objective 5b status to 25 or even 15 per cent in certain cases . |
| 32 | Because the service standards are likely to be somewhat lower than in a commercial operation , you might set the rate so that they were 50 per cent ( or even 60 per cent ) of the total . |
| 33 | Some would give 25 or even 40 per cent . |
| 34 | In a series of estimates which have ranged from 25 or even 30 per cent to 8½ per cent ( was that really said ? ) there is obviously material to suit almost every taste . |
| 35 | or maybe twenty per cent , ten per cent think they 're better than the teacher thinks they are , ten per cent think that |
| 36 | By May 12 the Bombay stock exchange index had fallen by 1,047 points or almost 24 per cent of the market 's capitalization since the scandal first emerged at the end of April . |
| 37 | The budget deficit was expected to grow from Esc439,000 million in 1989 to Esc601,000 million in 1990 , or around 7.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) ( the 1989 figure of 4.3 per cent of GDP being unusually low , partly because of accelerated revenue collection as a result of tax reforms ) . |
| 38 | Labourers ' wives who married at age 20 to 24 during the first decade of this century had on average 4.8 live births , or over 80 per cent more than the wives of professionals . |
| 39 | In 1882 the Congregational Union studied the problem of low stipends and reported that of 1,527 ministers in charge of chapels in England and Wales , 668 or over 43 per cent received under £150 p.a . |
| 40 | There are villages in Lika , Kordun , Banija and Gorski Kotor , between Zagreb and the northern Adriatic coast , where over 70 per cent of the present-day inhabitants are Serbs . |
| 41 | In a society such as the United Kingdom where over 50 per cent of workers are in the service sector compared with only 30 per cent in manufacturing , new technology in the office may have more consequences than robots in the factory for job loss . |
| 42 | The World Bank has emphasised the need for increased agricultural investment in LDCs where over 60 per cent of the labour force is employed on the land , together with land reform ( re-distribution of land ownership in favour of peasant farmers ) . |
| 43 | However , an FOE survey showed that only 13 per cent of coolant from domestic refrigerators was being recovered by local councils ; many authorities had no collection scheme in operation . |
| 44 | Ministers still stand by Lawther 's conclusion that only 10 per cent of lead in the human body is likely to come from additives in petrol . |
| 45 | Clarke suggests that only 10 per cent of the iodine-131 escaped . |
| 46 | ( Webster , 1967 ) has shown that only 10 per cent had any reference to the actual date of the deposit in which they were found . |
| 47 | Verbrugge ( 1989 ) considers that only 10 per cent of the gender difference in late-age mortality is due to biological or intrinsic factors and 90 per cent is a result of differences in social variables such as smoking behaviour ; Waldron ( 1976 ) suggests that 75 per cent of the difference is attributable to behavioural factors . |
| 48 | Khasbulatov also said that only 10 per cent of the population were living in satisfactory conditions , and that Russia was experiencing the " pauperization and lumpenization " of its people . |
| 49 | Ukraine claimed that only 10 per cent should become CIS property , as the cost of building and maintaining the fleet had been borne by Ukraine . |
| 50 | The same diplomatic source also said that only 10 per cent of FALA soldiers had been demobilized and that UNITA retained an effective force of 47,000 with heavy equipment intact . |
| 51 | From this it can be concluded that only 1.4 per cent of this large number of coins establishes the date of the deposit but in this case , since there are no later Roman coins found in Britain , it could be even later ; a salutary lesson for all excavators . |
| 52 | Petras and Cook found that only 4.9 per cent of their sample of the top national bourgeoisie were nut dependent on technology that originated from abroad . |
| 53 | This publication , read in conjunction with several other contemporary research findings ( Dell 1971 ; Zander 1969 and 1972 ) , stated that only 4 per cent of defendants were represented by lawyers , usually solicitors . |
| 54 | Figures from all the clinics in England and Wales in 1976 showed that only 16 per cent of attendances were by patients with venereal disease , as statutorily de fined , and only a further 40 per cent had infections that were definitely sexually transmitted . |
| 55 | Toyne ( 1977 ) , in a study in Devon , found that only 16 per cent of school leavers ' first-choice employment was manufacturing , while 59 per cent preferred jobs in offices , retailing or the public sector . |
| 56 | Timaeus estimates that only 16 per cent of those reaching the age of 60 in the early 1990s will have no children at time of death . |
| 57 | Gazzard et al. ( 1976 ) used a questionnaire to ask patients who had taken overdoses of paracetamol about their knowledge of the effects of this substance and found that only 11 per cent knew about the possibility of severe hepatic complications that can occur after an interval of several days . |
| 58 | In 1921 Bowley estimated that only 41 per cent of working class families could depend on a man 's wage and of the families drawing public assistance during the 1930s fewer than one half depended on only one wage earner . |
| 59 | Responses to a questionnaire sent to NHS authorities in March 1988 had shown that only 8 per cent of employers requires nurses and health visitors to undertake re-entry programmes before employment , even though individuals might have had substantial breaks in service . |
| 60 | Consultants evaluating the zones suggest that only 55 per cent of these jobs are net additional jobs in the zones ( P.A. Consultants , 1987 ) . |