Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the authority 's figures show that up to September , 1991 , of the 4,916 Aids cases reported six per cent were black and only one per cent Asian or Oriental . |
| 32 | Although education is compulsory from age seven to 14 in theory , almost half the children in public schools never get beyond the first year and only one per cent continue to higher education . |
| 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 | Of the total island population , eighty-six per cent live on the south side and only fourteen per cent on the north . |
| 35 | are in this category in London and only 23.1 per cent . |
| 36 | In the Augsburger Nationalzeitung , the main Party organ for the region of Swabia , 62 per cent of announcements mentioned the Führer in June 1940 , only 29 per cent in November and December 1941 , and only 11.5 per cent in the last two months of 1942 . |
| 37 | Eccup water treatment works supplying Leeds failed ‘ regularly ’ and only 38 per cent of the works supplying Wales met the standard . |
| 38 | Only one-third knew about the financial benefits available to carers , less than half knew of support services available and only 38 per cent would turn to social services for advice . |
| 39 | Nearly all are seldom or never overdrawn — and only two per cent have no idea how much — or how little — is in the bank . |
| 40 | Of " voluntary " temporary workers , nearly a half had been out of the labour market entirely 12 months before and only two per cent had been unemployed , but of " involuntary " temporary workers the proportions were just under one third in both cases . |
| 41 | The UK has lost 45 per cent of its ancient forest in the last 50 years , and only 1.5 per cent of the original forest cover remains , according to figures published by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 42 | Although the registered disabled comprise a substantial proportion — some 12 per cent — of the population of Britain , only two to three per cent of them are chairbound and only four per cent of the registered blind have a guide dog . |
| 43 | The travelling communities also tend to be younger with 50 per cent of them under 20 and only four per cent over 65 . |
| 44 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 45 | At present , choices made at age 13 may require science to be dropped completely , and only 11 per cent of pupils take all three science subjects . |
| 46 | of local government expenditure in England and Wales and only 11 per cent . |
| 47 | This is just 3 per cent of the world installed base and only 11 per cent of the installed base in Europe . |
| 48 | This represents an improvement over the situation a few years earlier , since in 1970 women earned only 63 per cent of men 's hourly rate , and only 55 per cent of men 's gross weekly pay . |
| 49 | As late as 1975 , the proportion of young people in grammar schools between the ages of 16 and 19 was 14 per cent for the professional group and only 1 per cent for the unskilled manual group . |
| 50 | Further questioning showed that 58 per cent said they ‘ knew nothing ’ about the average engineering company and only 8 per cent felt ‘ well informed . ’ |
| 51 | Further questioning showed that 58 per cent said they ‘ knew nothing ’ about the average engineering company and only 8 per cent felt ‘ well informed . ’ |
| 52 | The agricultural industry had ceased to be the greatest employer ; in 1914 about 43 per cent of the occupied population was working in agriculture in France , 35 per cent in Germany , 22 per cent in Belgium and only 8 per cent in Great Britain . |
| 53 | A third of wildcat populations had declined in recent years , and only 8 per cent were increasing . |
| 54 | From Table 6.4 , 99.86 per cent of records will be stored in their home cylinder and only 0.14 per cent will overflow on to another cylinder . |
| 55 | According to official results announced on Feb. 11 the turnout was 84.43 per cent of eligible voters , of whom 90.47 per cent voted " yes " and only 6.56 per cent voted " no " . |
| 56 | In contrast , the viverrids produced less breakage , with the humerus , for instance , being represented by 43 per cent complete bones and only 44 per cent distal ends . |
| 57 | Restraining the use of private cars would carry no disadvantages , in the view of 53 per cent , and only 4 per cent thought that discouraging people from using cars represented a loss of liberty . |
| 58 | The most extreme difference occurred between open class items and affixes. 96 per cent of errors in the production of open class items were substitution errors , and only 4 per cent loss or addition errors , whereas for affixes there were only 24 per cent substitution errors but 76 per cent loss and addition errors . |
| 59 | Nearly three-quarters of the boys who were apprenticed to cutlers in and around Sheffield between 1650 and 1724 came from within a 15-mile radius of their new homes and only 4 per cent migrated more than 40 miles . |
| 60 | We found roughly equal numbers of women in their forties with manual worker husbands in the local authority and owner-occupied sectors in the mid-1970s — but 29 per cent of the former group , and only 17 per cent of the latter , had had four or more children ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 , Table 8 ) . |