Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.

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31 Over two thirds of Japanese car workers operate in multi-skilled teams , compared with just 10 per cent in the UK , and the land of the risen yen puts in two and a half times as many hours training its new workers in those skills .
32 BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost .
33 Road maintenance now takes a quarter of the roads ' budget , compared with roughly 10 per cent as recently as the middle 1970s .
34 Largely because of migration patterns , the non-white population is also younger than the white population ; for example , around 4 per cent ( approximately 97,000 ) of the black and Asian populations had reached retirement age by 1986 , compared with around 10 per cent of the white population ( Patel , 1990 ) .
35 Manganese nodules with over 10 per cent Mn occur in Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland .
36 Manganese nodules with over 10 per cent Mn occur in Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland but resources are probably small .
37 Outside London there was only a handful of districts with over 10 per cent of their population living in households with a NCWP-born head Luton and Slough in the South East , Birmingham , Sand well and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands , Blackburn in Lancashire , and the City of Leicester , being the highest at 21.7 per cent in 1981 .
38 Pesticides and defoliant residues on a swathe round the coast tens of kilometres wide of exposed seabed resulted in greatly increased heart disease , cancer , and deaths from chronic gastritis , kidney disease and tuberculosis , with over 10 per cent of children dying in their first year .
39 The company is the country 's third largest imported beer marketer , with over 10 per cent of the market .
40 In Britain and in the Netherlands it accounts For about 10 per cent of the total consumption of sugar , in Ireland for 8 per cent , in Germany and France for about 5 per cent .
41 The NRA estimates that oil and sewage sources each accounted for about 20 per cent of the total reported incidents with farm and industrial incidents accounting for about 10 per cent each .
42 A lead-only second-hand car is now worth about 10 per cent less than an unleaded equivalent .
43 In only 10 per cent of cases did social work or police ‘ discover ’ the problem on their own although they are the main carriers of the interrogative role .
44 Garel Rhys , professor of motor industry economics at Cardiff University , believes the motor industry needs a boost , and suggests that car tax should be cut from approximately 10 per cent to 5 per cent .
45 In both cases , the difference between shortest and longest repayment period involved a change from about 10 per cent to 50 per cent APR .
46 In particular , the massive increase in car ownership from about 10 per cent in the early 1950s , to about 58 per cent of all urban households and around 70 per cent of rural households in 1982 ( Phillips and Williams , 1984 ) has let more and more rural people travel to a greater range of destinations at their own time and convenience .
47 The table documents a growth in the proportion of those living by themselves from around 10 per cent in 1945 to over one-third in 1980 .
48 Neither does it reveal the decline in holdings of short-term assets , from over 10 per cent of the total in 1978 .
49 First , they see various loan options where the APR dropped from 49 per cent for six-month repayment periods to only 10 per cent for 36-month periods .
50 It succeeded at a stroke in reducing tenanted land from over 45 per cent of the cultivated area to under 10 per cent .
51 The proportion averaged one in five for Inner London as a whole , but at borough level ranged from almost 30 per cent in Haringey to under 10 per cent for Kensington and Chelsea and was in fact highest for an outer borough — Brent — at 33.5 per cent .
52 Public borrowing rose to nearly 10 per cent of national income — equivalent to £55,000 million today .
53 Taxes on income by corporations , including profits tax , amount to nearly 10 per cent of the total .
54 But it is understood that Pepsi 's market share in France for cola drinks dropped from 18 per cent in the early 1980s to roughly 10 per cent despite an expanding market .
55 At the turn of the century government expenditure as a proportion of G N P amounted to roughly 10 per cent ; by 1970 this figure had reached over 40 per cent .
56 Catalysts are expected to cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars to about 10 per cent by 1989 levels by the year 2006 .
57 What had changed was the distribution of employment so that although Japanese farms are very tiny , the threefold decline in agricultural employment to about 10 per cent of the labour force means that non-agricultural sectors now provide the bulk of small-firm employment .
58 Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB .
59 For an investment-intensity ratio of below 35 per cent , it seems that one gets an ROI above 30 per cent , whereas , when investment intensity is above 70 per cent , ROI falls to about 10 per cent .
60 Economic growth had recovered from a negative rate in 1988 to an average of 8 per cent during 1989-91 , and inflation declined sharply from 75 per cent in 1989 to about 10 per cent in 1991 .
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