Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Newcastle 's cap and collar mortgage , where the interest can not rise about 10.75 per cent or fall below 9.5 per cent for a full seven years is a good bet , especially when you consider that over the last 10 years , the average interest rate has been around 12 per cent . |
| 2 | Centralised lender National Home Loans has a cap & collar deal where the mortgage interest rate will not rise above 14.49 per cent or fall below 10.99 per cent over the next five years .. |
| 3 | The Assembly had 386 seats and under the country 's complex electoral system ( approved in October 1989 — see p. 36961 ) , there were 176 single-member constituencies , where results were decided either by overall majority in the first round , or in a second round to which candidates would go forward if they finished in the top three or obtained over 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 4 | Nancy Tait attacked Professor McDonald 's stature as an independent witness , dismissing his statement that there was no risk to the Quebec community even where there were mountains of asbestos waste by citing a new state investigation that found almost 60 per cent of asbestos industry workers had abnormal X-rays . |
| 5 | But the people of modern Egypt were not content with agriculture that was so seasonal , or was confined to an area that utilized only three per cent of their country . |
| 6 | On the global scale , the oceans that cover almost 70 per cent of the world prevent it from becoming intolerably hot by day , and freezing cold by night . |
| 7 | Perhaps , to be a little facetious , an ancestral insect that looked only 5 per cent like a turd would have fooled an ancestral bird with only 5 per cent vision . |
| 8 | As head of Radio 2 's music department for the last four years , Ms Line has been responsible for the blend of easy listening that makes up 80 per cent of its 24-hours-a-day output , along with presenters such as Derek Jameson and Jimmy Young . |
| 9 | The Ignalina plant , located north-east of Vilnius , is Lithuania 's only nuclear power station and produces around 60 per cent of the country 's electricity . |
| 10 | The Alpha level corresponds to the subconscious and involves almost 100 per cent concentration . |
| 11 | Ham ( 1985 ) reports that the private sector provides 5 per cent of acute beds , 8 per cent of all beds and receives about 8 per cent of all non-emergency admissions to acute hospitals . |
| 12 | This should not be taken too literally — not every rock in the crust is a granite — things like limestones are vastly different in composition — but the average composition of all the rocks on the continents is about that of granite and contains over 60 per cent of silica . |
| 13 | The creation of artificial waters does much to replace this loss , and five of the 12 sites in the table are gravel pits or reservoirs and support about 30 per cent . |
| 14 | ‘ Pristine ’ areas include national parks and national wilderness areas and cover approximately 1 per cent of the federal land area . |
| 15 | The Pennyland estate in Milton Keynes has over 100 houses that have been designed to catch as much sun as possible , cutting annual heating bills by 40 per cent and costing just one per cent more to build . |
| 16 | The company achieved significant growth during the year with both home trade and export up 12 per cent on the previous year . |
| 17 | Moderately rocky land having peaty soils and comprising about 25 per cent of the Outer Hebrides is especially extensive on South Uist , eastern Benbecula , north of the Harris mountains and on the metasedimentary rocks in South Harris . |
| 18 | Retailers are constantly unable to meet demand for organic produce and import around 60 per cent from abroad . |
| 19 | This replaces non-domestic rates ( i.e. property taxes levied on commercial , industrial and other business premises ) , whose levels have previously been locally determined and raised about 17 per cent of local government income in England ( 1984/85 figures , Douglas and Lord , 1986 , p. 15 ) . |
| 20 | The delay knocked work back two years and swallowed about 4 per cent of the total project budget . |
| 21 | In 1910 , all the other minorities , to which had been added the Muslim Serbo-Croats of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( annexed in 1909 ) , outnumbered Germans and Magyars combined and provided about 58 per cent of the subjects of the house of Habsburg . |
| 22 | This , it is thought , would have given him time to renegotiate exemption and pay only 40 per cent capital gains . |
| 23 | In the contests for around 52,000 seats on over 2,300 local councils , Solidarity-backed Citizens ' Committees won over 41 per cent of the seats nationwide and performed strongly in the main cities , making a virtually clean sweep in Gdansk , Krakow and Wroclaw and taking nearly 90 per cent in Warsaw , the capital . |
| 24 | Hinkley Point A , for example , even with the benefit of the ‘ mechanized army ’ so lyrically portrayed by The Times correspondent , took seven and a half years to build instead of its projected five , and went about 25 per cent over budget ( £34 million ) . |
| 25 | The quickening pace of commerce increased the urban population : a mere 3 per cent of the population in 1700 , it rose to about 8 per cent in 1800 and reached around 11 per cent by the 1850s . |
| 26 | Taking a gamble , the British Greens contested all 78 mainland seats and took nearly 15 per cent of the vote ( but no seats because of the first-past-the-post rule of British elections ; i.e. there was not a single constituency in which the Greens had a majority ) . |
| 27 | From a restored base at Barings , where he exercised autocratic leadership and took almost 50 per cent of the distributed profits ( amassing thereby a considerable personal fortune ) , Revelstoke exercised great influence in the City and Whitehall , though always remaining in the background of public affairs . |
| 28 | The amount of such mail handled by the Post Office increased threefold from 1975 to 1987 , reaching 1,626 million items and making up 7.7 per cent of total national expenditure on advertising . |
| 29 | Yet the Third World makes only 8 per cent of all fertiliser , and consumes about 15 per cent . |
| 30 | Since 1919 , great armies of faceless conifers have stamped their way across the highlands and the lowlands , Sitka spruce now covers half a million hectares and makes up 52 per cent of conifers planted by the Forestry Commission in Scotland and Wales . |