Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 The reporting rate , and the detection rate , for murder is over 90 per cent , and for serious assault over 80 per cent .
2 ‘ Our staff turnover is down 50 per cent and that is not entirely due to the effects of the recession , ’ says general manager of the Holiday Inn Bristol , a Scotts ' hotel which recently completed a £10 million refurbishment and emerged as the Bristol Marriott .
3 In Liverpool drink-related crime is down 22 per cent and in the Thames Valley it has dropped 13 per cent so far this year .
4 up on 1979 , and business investment is up 27 per cent .
5 This optimum is not 100 per cent debt financing as equity is regarded as a safety cushion which will absorb any losses which might be incurred during the ordinary course of trading and/or liquidation .
6 Again , the statistics published this week — not by the Department of the Environment , but based on figures provided by local authorities throughout the country — show that the figure is not 30 per cent .
7 Department of Energy analyses also imply that the scope for energy savings could be as high as 60 per cent , although a more realistic figure is around 20 per cent .
8 Off the top of my head , I think that the figure is about 25 per cent .
9 Novello Allegro 's participation was also in doubt because of the ground , but Meade added that the horse is not 100 per cent .
10 On that basis the number waiting over 12 months is now 27 per cent .
11 Labour took Thurrock , Gravesham , and Feltham and Heston , in all of which the Sun 's penetration is over 40 per cent , and had one of its biggest swings , 6.8 per cent , in Hayes and Harlington , where 42 per cent of homes buy it .
12 What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years .
13 The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity .
14 The percentage of added records that can not be held in these embedded overflow areas is about 10.26 per cent .
15 Suitable burners can be 60 per cent efficient — burning cow-dung cakes is only 11 per cent efficient .
16 Grattan is only 5 per cent ahead which looks a poor defence against wage costs rising by 8 per cent and high street occupancy costs by 20 per cent .
17 No party even hinted at reintroducing the Acts , and that sector is now 5 per cent .
18 UNEMPLOYMENT in Strabane is now five per cent more than this time last year , according to the latest Government statistics .
19 The conviction rate for social security offences is approximately 95 per cent , mostly guilty pleas .
20 Rots can not flourish if the moisture content of the wood is below 18 per cent although the spores can remain alive in quite dry timber , waiting for a rainy day .
21 The average car engine is only 15 per cent efficient .
22 As was clear in the original Warnock Report ( DES 1978 ) , however , the proportion of children who fall within the general definition of special educational needs is around 20 per cent .
23 Through a combination of capital projects and employee involvement in looking for improvements , the waste [ as defined under SARA title 111 ] produced by the site is now 40 per cent down on 1988 .
24 The rate of tax is currently 35 per cent for large companies and 25 per cent ( equal to the basic income tax rate ) for small companies .
25 A glance at the percentages of synonyms shows that even when the file is only 20 per cent packed , almost 10 per cent of the file will be stored as synonyms .
26 In South Dakota the number of cattle has dropped from 5.2 million to four million since the bankruptcy crisis of ‘ 85 , and the human population is down 20 per cent .
27 A rough estimate of the current amount of housebuilding in towns of over 50,000 population is around 15 per cent .
28 The first , and most important , is that the natural rate of increase of the Albanian population is about 2.5 per cent per annum , while the corresponding rate among Serbs and Montenegrins is probably below 0.5 per cent .
29 Here , the rural population density is 208 km-2 and the annual increase in population is c. 3.1 per cent , but the amount of agricultural land per head of population is only 0.52 ha .
30 Bell Group is about 75 per cent owned by Bond Corp .
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