Example sentences of "[adv] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though hon. Members disagree on many issues , I believe that the House will agree that I have tried to make that a priority within the narrow band of the 17 or so per cent . |
| 2 | VAUXHALL ‘ CHOICES ’ allows an initial minimum deposit of only per cent and again is available across the company 's full range of models . |
| 3 | Forth per cent of cystic fibrosis patients in this series had evidence of bacterial overgrowth based on a fasting breath hydrogen excretion of greater than 75 ppm after prolonged fasting or a positive hydrogen breath test . |
| 4 | The pancreatic blood flow was recorded in ml/ min/100 g tissues as displayed on the digital panel meter and presented either in absolute value or as per cent change from control value obtained in rats infused with saline . |
| 5 | it 's three four five-ish per cent yeah , and that is n't gon na be on e the same on every product so |
| 6 | Research shows that not only is fashion unpredictable , it is also out of step , with over per cent of the female population size and above , and per cent under 5'2 ’ . |
| 7 | Without treatment , depression can drag on for months or even years , and yet over per cent of the most severe depressions can be helped quickly . |
| 8 | Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 9 | The debt continues , because real short-term interest rates are six and a half per cent ( they are as good as zero in the United States ) . |
| 10 | Although total revenues generated in the first-class game increased in actual terms , by seven and a half per cent , to the £24.5 million mark , the inexorable rise in costs has taken over £1 million out of the combined surpluses of the counties , which have descended to a dangerously low level of just under |
| 11 | Every one per cent change of moisture content may cause about a half per cent shrinkage or swelling . |
| 12 | ‘ Not one per cent here and a half per cent there , but a cut which will give small businesses an immediate boost and spread confidence throughout the economy . |
| 13 | Half an hour later I 'll inject fifty millilitres of half per cent Novocaine . |
| 14 | We are trying to keep up with the Germans , whose central bankers call their four and a half per cent inflation rate monstrously high , and would barely tolerate a return to two per cent . |
| 15 | The Labour Force Survey ( LFS ) , which is based on a half per cent sample , collects information from about 80,000 households and about 120,000 people each year . |
| 16 | The 1981 Census was estimated to have been under-counted by about half a per cent ( around two hundred thousand people ) in England and Wales as a whole and by about two and a half per cent in Inner London ( about fifty five thousand people ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Four per cent is the average figure for companies in the electrical and electronics field , whilst three and a half per cent is common in the aerospace and chemical fields , ’ added Stuart . |
| 18 | Sinn Fein 's vote was up by 1.2pc ( 5pc in Belfast ) , yielding 51 seats , and although the DUP 's fell by a half per cent overall , it was up 3.2pc in Belfast . |
| 19 | Early in November the Bank of England moved again , another half per cent . |
| 20 | On average , a body is injected with approximately 12–16 pints of the one and a half per cent or two per cent solution and this takes place over a time period of approximately one to two hours . |
| 21 | Finally , transfers of preference shares attract stamp duty at one half per cent whereas transfers of loan stock are generally exempt ( unless the stock is convertible into share capital ) . |
| 22 | A swing of a mere one and a half per cent would win the seat for Liberal Democrat Gwynoro Jones who was Labour MP in the early seventies . |
| 23 | he 's vulnerable to a swing of four and a half per cent to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 24 | Full control requires thirty five seats which would be a swing of one and a half per cent to the Conservatives or six to Labour . |
| 25 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 26 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
| 27 | Tonight we find out what the effects would be of a seventeen and a half per cent tax on books and newspapers . |
| 28 | Staff already have challenging task of keeping up with the demands of an ever changing national curriculum , if every book they bought cost seventeen and a half per cent more they 'd simply have to buy fewer books . |