Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the UK the government provided nearly 50 per cent of the funding , which compared well with other countries . |
| 32 | Pharmaceutical sales jumped more than 5 per cent and operating profits rose nearly 4 per cent , with the group 's portfolio showing ‘ strong resilience ’ . |
| 33 | They found that moving traps were indeed consuming energy — cells used up 29 per cent of their ATP in the three seconds of closure , Venus fly-traps clamp down on their prey as a result of irreversible cell expansion , which is itself caused by the activation of wall loosening enzymes by a lowered p H in the cell wall . |
| 34 | Wages rose about 9 per cent , although inflationary pressure meant that average settlements would probably rise to 12 per cent in 1991 . |
| 35 | In 1991 , productivity rose about 3 per cent , which compared favourably with total Scottish manufacturing productivity , down more than 1 per cent . |
| 36 | In these problem areas , the UK contributed around 20 per cent of the sulphur , over half as much again as any other country . |
| 37 | Nancy Tait attacked Professor McDonald 's stature as an independent witness , dismissing his statement that there was no risk to the Quebec community even where there were mountains of asbestos waste by citing a new state investigation that found almost 60 per cent of asbestos industry workers had abnormal X-rays . |
| 38 | A government report of Sept. 27 found that millions of litres of radioactive water were seeping out of leaky tanks at Kozloduy , which provided around 40 per cent of Bulgaria 's electricity . |
| 39 | The oil and gas equipment contributed almost 50 per cent more at £30.6 million , but paper-pulp equipment making fell by a quarter to £20.4 million . |
| 40 | Profits from shipbuilding rose almost 40 per cent to £73.5 million , with the Norwegian and Finnish yards which make specialised cargo ships reporting good order books in spite of the recession . |
| 41 | With a rather different question Townsend 's survey team in 1968–69 found around 80 per cent of respondents willing to assign themselves ‘ spontaneously ’ to a social class . |
| 42 | Indeed , an international survey of old people in Britain , Denmark , and the United States in the 1960s found over 40 per cent of them living within ten minutes ' journey of their children in all three countries . |
| 43 | The rapid expansion was due to development of the country 's mineral resources , dominated by diamonds ( which contributed over 84 per cent of export earnings ) and the beef industry ( which accounts for most of agriculture 's 3 per cent contribution to GDP ) . |
| 44 | But the people of modern Egypt were not content with agriculture that was so seasonal , or was confined to an area that utilized only three per cent of their country . |
| 45 | Opinion polls indicated that whilst Cuomo was the best known and most popular of potential Democratic candidates , he commanded only 23 per cent support compared with 66 per cent for Bush . |
| 46 | In a Dartmoor study area , key settlements attracted only 22 per cent of outline planning permission compared with 34 per cent in non-key villages . |
| 47 | For one thing , BBC WILDLIFE readers were not restricted in their choices and , as a consequence , the responses were tremendously varied — even the most popular animal , the elephant , attracted only 9 per cent of the overall vote . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Kinnock scored only 61 per cent in the pre-campaign week — the same as his average score across all image aspects . |
| 50 | Milongo , who received only 10.18 per cent of the vote , was reported to have petitioned the Supreme Court on Aug. 11 to have the result of the first round annulled because of irregularities . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | A striking feature of the Abel material — and more than half of the sample came from members who had joined the Party before its ‘ take-off ’ in 1930 — is indeed that even among ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Movement — according to Merkl 's ranking of ‘ main ideological theme ’ — only about one-eighth saw anti-Semitism as their most salient concern , while what he calls ‘ strong ideological antisemites ’ comprised only 8.5 per cent of the total sample . |
| 53 | Also disappointed were Rev Ian Paisley 's Democratic Unionists , who , despite being released from the constraints of an earlier pact with the Ulster Unionists of James Molyneaux , secured only 13.1 per cent ( retaining three seats ) , against 34.5 ( and nine seats ) for the UUP . |
| 54 | The Socialists ( still generally referred to as the PSI , despite the party 's official redesignation in 1990 as the Socialist Unity Party — PSU ) secured only 13.6 per cent of the vote and 92 seats . |
| 55 | All elections in Kerala are notoriously close calls — in the last poll for the State Assembly , the winning left coalition scored just 0.79 per cent more than its Congress-led rival . |
| 56 | However , despite an effective campaign , Labour secured just 32 per cent of the vote , leaving the Conservative government with an overall majority of 102 . |
| 57 | The SDP , the Human Rights Union ( HRU ) and the RP each secured under 5 per cent of the vote . |
| 58 | Tshisekedi , who in 1991 had headed a " crisis government " for a three-week period beginning Sept. 29 [ see pp. 38423 ; 38515-16 ] , received nearly 70 per cent of the votes cast by the 2,651 national conference delegates . |
| 59 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 60 | In Cerro Azul in 1984 , dolphins comprised almost 19 per cent by weight of the fish and marine products caught for human consumption . |