Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research ( ’ soft ’ ) money represents now 45 per cent of the LSHTM 's total income and expenditure of about £3.4 million . |
| 2 | In Austria the Germans made up 36.8 per cent of the population . |
| 3 | The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Planting Survey shows that the variety contributes only 2.5 per cent of total area of Barley under cultivation in the Eastern Counties ( down from 6 per cent in 1990 ) , 0.5 per cent in the South and South West ( down from 0.8 per cent ) and 0.5 per cent in the Midlands down from 1.4 per cent . |
| 4 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 5 | Along with orders to France and Scandinavia , exports make up 75 per cent of ANTA 's business . |
| 6 | During the 1980s , inflation in Britain measured by the retail price index averaged around 6 per cent per annum ; a rate sufficient to halve the real value of a fixed sum of money in twelve years . |
| 7 | The new funding represents nearly 15 per cent of the enlarged share capital of the Lanarkshire-based private engineering group , which employs 3,000 people and whose 1991 accounts showed pre-tax profits of £6.05 million on a turnover of £137 million . |
| 8 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |
| 9 | ( The oxide contains about 60 per cent metallic tin , which is recovered only after the material is reduced in a smelter . ) |
| 10 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 11 | Company cars make up 60 per cent of the sales . |
| 12 | Consumer goods manufacturers averaged only 12.5 per cent . |
| 13 | Though BA would have only 15 per cent of the voting shares in United , the second-largest US airline , its investment represents almost 80 per cent of the equity in the deal . |
| 14 | Tamils made up twenty-two per cent of Colombo residents , Moors nineteen per cent , and Burghers eight per cent . |
| 15 | The new legislation — which will in effect make over 88 per cent of Australia 's native forests available to large scale-logging and pulping concerns — is likely to be introduced in March . |
| 16 | At constant exchange rates , turnover rose only 4 per cent , pre-tax profits by 11 per cent and earnings per share by 9 per cent . |
| 17 | This was the first piece of silliness : Comet already has 8.8 per cent and Dixons has almost 18 per cent — quite enough when merged to breach the 25 per cent ceiling which triggers a Monopolies Commission inquiry . |
| 18 | Even standing as independents in April 's elections , their candidates won about 13 per cent of the vote . |
| 19 | Imports of passenger cars over the three months rose only two per cent by volume , whilst imports of capital goods were down six per cent . |
| 20 | Advertising revenue rose only 4 per cent , down £29 million from 1989 's record . |
| 21 | ‘ an attempt to span out 95 per cent of the quality of effluent at present discharged from the [ sewage ] works , taking out the fliers and the obviously bad discharges . |
| 22 | The Port of Larne handles almost 100 per cent of Northern Ireland 's tourist car and sea passenger traffic and 75 per cent of roll on/roll off freight . |
| 23 | The production of copper from ‘ grade one ’ copper scrap in a reverbatory furnace uses only 3 per cent of the energy required to convert virgin ore to the metal . |
| 24 | However , despite an effective campaign , Labour secured just 32 per cent of the vote , leaving the Conservative government with an overall majority of 102 . |
| 25 | He guesstimates that the existence of different European currencies cost about 1.5 per cent of Europe 's total income each year , merely in terms of the losses incurred by traders and investors when they change currencies . |
| 26 | All elections in Kerala are notoriously close calls — in the last poll for the State Assembly , the winning left coalition scored just 0.79 per cent more than its Congress-led rival . |
| 27 | The acceleration at the roof measured only 0.71 per cent of gravity ; at an adjacent , four-storey conventional building , roof acceleration was 5.9 . |
| 28 | But the study showed over 10 per cent of GPs were prescribing oestrogen only . |
| 29 | But even at their early fifties peak , these funds constituted only 7 per cent of industrial finance ( 12 per cent of that raised outside the firm ) . |
| 30 | Although it seems that the South is recovering its appetite for fresh fish , with restaurants buying about 30 per cent of the fish sold in the area , there is no doubt that there has been a positive nosedive in the demand for fresh fish in Britain as whole . |