Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 32 | A slightly smaller proportion need shopping help , but only 9 per cent receive this type of assistance . |
| 33 | ‘ Thirty-four per cent of buyers think turkey is interesting — which is higher than lamb or pork — but only 9 per cent of non-buyers agree , which is considerably less than any other meat in the market . ’ |
| 34 | But only 11.0 per cent of the interest is paid to the investor : the remaining half per cent is donated to a conservation organisation of their choice . |
| 35 | China has a fifth of the world 's population , but only seven per cent of its arable land — mainly in the densely populated eastern strip . |
| 36 | Marijuana was the most popular drug but only seven per cent of students had ever taken LSD . |
| 37 | The 1976 English House Condition Survey found that some 28 per cent of all unfit dwellings in England but only 23 per cent of total stock were in rural areas , defined to include settlements of up to 1,000 dwellings . |
| 38 | Exports had risen by 150 per cent from Germany and 180 per cent from Italy but only 28 per cent from Britain . |
| 39 | In 1983 , the General Household Survey , which is the major source of data in this area , showed that among professional worker heads of household , 90 per cent were owner-occupiers , but only 28 per cent of unskilled workers were owner-occupiers ( General Household Survey 1983 , 1985 , Table 6.13 ) . |
| 40 | Keele , on the other hand , gets over 32 per cent extra for teaching ( rewarding a 48 per cent increase in fees-only students ) , but only 2.5 per cent for research . |
| 41 | Ninety-four per cent of those surveyed thought recycling was important , but only 36 per cent did any themselves : 64 per cent said that they put all their household waste straight into the bin . |
| 42 | But only 64 per cent of Sun/ Star readers did so . |
| 43 | Third , older people are over-represented in the more severe disability groups : those aged 60+ constitute 75 per cent of the most severe disability group but only 64 per cent of the least severe category . |
| 44 | In 1970 52 per cent of the population listened at some point during the day , but only 43 per cent in 1986 . |
| 45 | Cambridge , for instance , has received a 19 per cent increase in UFC research , but only 2.7 per cent in teaching funds . |
| 46 | But only 11–12 per cent had prepared a formal marketing strategy or employed a marketing consultant in the past year . |
| 47 | Overall , about 18 per cent of all working women , but only 3 per cent of men , had earnings below the National Insurance threshold and so women were seven times more likely than men to be outside the National Insurance net ( Hakim , 1989 , p. 480 ) . |
| 48 | In 1983 , while girls gained 98 per cent of the ‘ O'-levels in domestic science , they gained only 5 per cent of those in technical drawing ; girls gained 75 per cent of the ‘ A'-level passes in French , but only 21 per cent of those in physics . |
| 49 | By 1965 it appeared that 48 per cent of retired men over 65 , but only 24 per cent of single women over 60 and 11 per cent of widows over pensionable age had employers ' pensions , younger women predominating among those women who had a pension in their own right ( Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance , 1966 , p. 154 ) . |
| 50 | Poland 's June 1989 elections , based on the April 1989 round table agreement [ see pp. 36577-79 ; 36722-24 ] , had been the first in eastern Europe to break the Communist monopoly on power , but only 35 per cent of seats in the Sejm and all seats in the Senate had been freely contested ( all , bar one in the Senate , being won by Solidarity candidates ) . |
| 51 | Statistics for 1987–8 reveal that 45.8 per cent of medical students were women : 43.3 per cent of dentistry students were women ; 53.6 per cent of biology students were women ; but only 16.1 per cent of physics and 10.7 per cent of engineering students were women . |
| 52 | But only 15 per cent of the smoke from a cigarette is inhaled by the smoker . |
| 53 | Sixty per cent of secretaries want to develop another career but only 15 per cent feel opportunities exist . |
| 54 | Literacy in Sinhala and Tamil was more widespread ; about forty-five per cent of men but only ten per cent of women living in Sinhala Sri Lanka were literate in any one language . |
| 55 | Two-thirds of DGMs report some form of joint commissioning arrangements for their 1992 – 93 contracts , of which 75 per cent are working with another DHA , 66 per cent with an FHSA but only 31 per cent with the local authority . |
| 56 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 57 | Well wrapped-up against the cold , Gooch said he was feeling better ‘ but not 100 per cent ’ . |
| 58 | He was injured playing for England in the friendly against Finland before the European Championship but insisted : ‘ I am now injury-free but not 100 per cent fit yet . |
| 59 | A tidy 34 billion cigarettes are sold every year in Thailand to 64 per cent of Thai males ( but just six per cent of females ) over the age of 20 . |
| 60 | The party increased its share of the vote by almost 4 percentage points , but nearly 7 per cent of votes cast went to the Greens and more than 5 per cent to the New Labour Party . |