Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , nuclear power was excluded from the government 's privatization plans and instead a state-owned company , Nuclear Electric , was set up to run the existing nuclear power stations ( eight Magnox , five AGR , and the PWR under construction at Sizewell ) and to continue generating around 20 per cent of electricity in England and Wales ( Scotland has a separate company ) . |
| 2 | As a result , according to the 1985-based projections ( OPCS , 1988 ) , while population increase of 15 per cent or more are expected by the year 2001 in some counties ( e.g. Buckinghamshire , Wiltshire , Cornwall , Shropshire ) , Merseyside stands to lose over 9 per cent and Cleveland and Tyne and Wear both over 5 per cent of their 1985 numbers . |
| 3 | It is due on stream in 1995 and is expected to meet about 10 per cent of Pakistan 's total current gas consumption . |
| 4 | It should be stressed , however , that — while the outlines of human activities are clear — there are still many uncertainties : for instance , we know that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has risen about 9 per cent since 1959 . |
| 5 | of national product ; since 1979 , it has averaged not 6 per cent . |
| 6 | But to maintain its market position as a leading systems and software house , it would need to persuade about 70 per cent of its key employees in the north London locations to relocate with the company . |
| 7 | Suppose that an individual has to put up 100 per cent margin ( i.e. has to pay the full amount of the investment Pf from the start ) but that this can be invested at the riskless rate r . |
| 8 | In six tests for the Wallabies since the World Cup final his success ratio has dipped below 50 per cent . |
| 9 | The amount of taxpayers ' cash that goes into paying top managers has gone up 900 PER CENT from £25 million in 1987 to £251 million last year . |
| 10 | All that shows beyond reasonable doubt that eggs were not responsible for the increase in food poisoning , which has gone up 36 per cent this year , despite an overall 24 per cent drop in egg consumption and the 700,000 birds slaughtered . |
| 11 | Whenever the yield has gone below 4 per cent before , it has been time to get out of the door and sell equities . ’ |
| 12 | Under the new scheme this group of claimants gain a weekly benefit valued at £27.40 but from this the claimant has to pay both 20 per cent of his or her rates bill and , similarly , 20 per cent of the water rates bill . |
| 13 | The result is that the rate of labour-force participation by women in Latin America has hovered around 20 per cent and remained fairly stable for over twenty years ( ECLA 1975 ) . |
| 14 | Jean-Marie Le Pen 's extreme right party is now expected to get only 12-13 per cent of the vote , slightly down from its 13.6 per cent in the regional elections but up on the 9.6 per cent it won in the last general election five years ago . |
| 15 | What impact the British offer would have on the brain drain , which is expected to push over 10 per cent of the population out of the colony before China 's 1997 takeover , was not clear . |
| 16 | Buckinghamshire county council has to stump up 3.8 per cent . |
| 17 | There is even a condition known as ‘ intensive care psychosis ’ which is said to affect about twenty per cent of those who have been patients in hospital intensive care units . |
| 18 | A statement by the Serbian Environment Minister , Pavle Todorovic , said that the Serbian government has also decided to set aside 1 per cent from every investment in " dirty " technology in an environmental protection fund . |
| 19 | Under threat are the world 's drylands , which are said to constitute about 35 per cent of the world 's land area and support some 850 million people . |
| 20 | The company also plans to buy about 70 per cent of its materials from Scottish suppliers . |
| 21 | Coca-Cola is said to control around 80 per cent of the French cola market and Pepsi is keen to strike back . |
| 22 | ( 1983 ) have found a relative shift of manufacturing industry from highly urbanized to rural regions across the entire European Community , and Bradshaw and Blakeley ( 1983 ) have pointed out three significant trends in the US rural economy : first , that agriculture is no longer the dominant employer ; second , that manufacturing employment has grown in rural areas ; and third , that services have expanded to employ nearly 60 per cent of the rural labour force and to provide the new basic economy for the growing rural population . |
| 23 | There are numerous varieties of mustards from around the world , although Dijon in France is acknowledged as the mecca of the trade and is still said to produce almost 50 per cent of the world 's mustard . |
| 24 | But now it is widely available and is used to create about 95 per cent of the world 's ammonia . |
| 25 | Of course , I know you wo n't like giving up fifteen per cent of the total equity of SUPPLYKITS — nobody would . |
| 26 | It is still the case today , though , that P Notes are used to settle about 20 per cent of business transactions . |
| 27 | The trustee in bankruptcy in whom the cause of action was vested , assigned it to the bankrupt , who covenanted to pay over 35 per cent of the net proceeds of any successful result . |
| 28 | These trees were managed to provide poles for the hop industry , but hop-growing is in decline in Sussex , the area of hops having fallen over 40 per cent . |
| 29 | It is not fair , perhaps , that with 23 per cent of the vote the Alliance should have won only 3 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons . |
| 30 | However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change . |