Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 2 | A small part of these sales taxes is raised from industries other than wholesale and retail trade , but in 1985 74 per cent was collected from retail organizations and nearly 13 per cent from wholesale organizations . |
| 3 | There are around three million players in Britain , but only 10 per cent of these are actually affiliated to a club and around 10 per cent of the club members are actually rated . |
| 4 | For example , those aged 65 and over accounted for one-third of all NHS prescriptions and about 40 per cent of acute hospital-bed occupation . |
| 5 | Approximately 58 per cent of manual workers were employed in West Ham , compared with 74 per cent in local shops and only 33 per cent in clerical jobs . |
| 6 | So far non-advertising revenue stands at 38 per cent of turnover and around 30 per cent of profits , though HTV does not have plans to make any large acquisitions , such as the purchase of CCA Galleries last year . |
| 7 | ‘ This is a $15 billion industry and already 30 per cent of it is accounted for by diet drinks . ’ |
| 8 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |
| 9 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 10 | Nearly three-quarters of the boys who were apprenticed to cutlers in and around Sheffield between 1650 and 1724 came from within a 15-mile radius of their new homes and only 4 per cent migrated more than 40 miles . |
| 11 | Of the total island population , eighty-six per cent live on the south side and only fourteen per cent on the north . |
| 12 | The number of teachers employed in state secondary schools was such that while women constituted 45 per cent of the teaching force ? they only held 15 per cent of the headships and only 0.7 per cent of women were heads . |
| 13 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 14 | of students were claiming housing benefit and only 2 per cent . |
| 15 | There are now more than 6400 restaurants in 41 countries and about 85 per cent of these restaurants are owned and operationed by franchisees . |
| 16 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 17 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |
| 18 | Of this 30.4 per cent went to projects in Italy , 15.3 per cent to Spain , 14.9 per cent to the United Kingdom , 13.3 per cent to France , 6.8 per cent to Germany , 6.3 per cent to Portugal , 4.5 per cent to Denmark and under 2 per cent to each of the other five member states . |
| 19 | In contrast , the viverrids produced less breakage , with the humerus , for instance , being represented by 43 per cent complete bones and only 44 per cent distal ends . |
| 20 | In fact the purchasing power of a single person 's pension in Britain was just less than 75 per cent of the French pension , 60 per cent of its West German counterpart and only 50 per cent of the value of the equivalent Dutch pension . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ Research has shown that 70 per cent of us would prefer to die at home and only 30 per cent of us do . |
| 22 | Of those cases reported , less than half are prosecuted through the courts and only 23 per cent result in convictions . |
| 23 | Just eight per cent of homes are rented from private landlords — compared with 45 per cent in West Germany and around 33 per cent in the US . |
| 24 | It suggested that 65 per cent of the country 's top 300 companies did not understand the Government 's economic policies and only 29 per cent thought they understood them . |
| 25 | The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned . |
| 26 | However , the 1989 AMERG survey asked specifically whether the ending of the mandatory scale had led to reductions of fees charged for individual projects and over 68 per cent of respondents stated that it had . |
| 27 | Revenue figures necessarily start at a modest level and even 100 per cent growth leaves us with a level only slightly less modest . |
| 28 | With over 60 per cent of households owning a VCR and virtually 50 per cent with at least two TV sets ; with 11 channels available via BSkyB 's Astra satellite , and over 10 per cent household penetration ; and video film rentals running at over 500 million per year ; the use made of a fairly stable total screen time per viewer is becoming progressively more diffuse . |
| 29 | In elections held on Sept. 29 to the city parliament in Bremen , with an electorate of about 500,000 , the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) , which had held power in Bremen for the past 20 years , remained the largest party but lost its overall majority and almost 12 per cent of the vote . |
| 30 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |