Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are less then 20 per cent overweight , you will be able to increase your pace much faster . |
| 2 | A quick scan through the ‘ for sale ’ pages of U.S. and British magazines indicates that prices for aircraft in the USA are only about sixty per cent of those in the UK . |
| 3 | With such a small population averages tend to be meaningless but butterfats are generally about 4 per cent and milk yields can be almost as high as a Jersey 's . |
| 4 | However , as a broad generalisation , premiums are usually around 0.5 per cent and upwards of the annual sales you want covered . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I am still not 100 per cent and it was a bit of a gamble playing against Ipswich , but it paid off . ’ |
| 6 | CD players have come down in price , but the discs themselves are still about thirty per cent dearer than in America . |
| 7 | Recent statistics from the ministry of finance show that both inflation and unemployment are still below 3 per cent . |
| 8 | Power- house : huge sums of capital invested in new factories and equipment in the last decade will help Japan maintain its lead in car and electronics manufacture Inflation and unemployment are still below 3 per cent |
| 9 | Lower limb injuries are behind about 60 per cent of our call-outs and tiredness and unfitness are the major causes . |
| 10 | The full-year loan and grant are now over 30 per cent . |
| 11 | Therefore the proportion of households headed by a married couple has been decreasing through time — it was 74 per cent in 1971 , 70 per cent in 1981 , and is expected to be only about 55 per cent in 2001 in England and Wales ( Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 12 | The gamma dose rate proved to be only about 20 per cent — reasonably typical for clay materials . |
| 13 | Tape measures with centimetres and inches on the SAME side ( I 'm still not 100 per cent into centimetres ! ) and a metre stick . |
| 14 | We expect the level of running costs of the Trident force to be well below 2 per cent . |
| 15 | I have made it clear that the cost of running a Trident deterrent will be well below 2 per cent . |
| 16 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
| 17 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 18 | increase for school buildings next year is a good outcome , given that the level of inflation is only about 4 per cent . |
| 19 | For now the geologists ' definition is sufficient : the tectonic Pacific is a body that is only about 70 per cent of the area of the conventionally accepted Ocean , and omits the coasts of all the South American and most of the South-East-Asian countries . |
| 20 | He recalls that a petrol engine is only about 20 per cent efficient ; most of the energy of its fuel appears as heat in its radiator and exhaust . |
| 21 | The manufacturing base , which is already nearing the limits of viability — it is only about 20 per cent . |
| 22 | In young male fiddler crabs the large claw is only about 2 per cent of the weight of the rest of the body , but among adults the large claw may eventually reach 70 per cent of the body weight ( above ) . |
| 23 | Even more worrying is that in some LEAs the uptake of free school meals by those eligible for them is less then 65 per cent . |
| 24 | These stand out as islands within a sea of districts where the proportion is generally below 3 per cent ( OPCS , 1984a ) . |
| 25 | If the load is maintained , the crack therefore accelerates rapidly and soon reaches its theoretical calculated speed which is generally about 38 per cent of the speed of sound in the material . |
| 26 | The bank 's liability is generally about 10 per cent of the contract price , but , however it can be higher . |
| 27 | Capacity utilisation for these five factories is thus only 44.2 per cent . |
| 28 | This poorer quality is reflected in their price , which is normally about 30 per cent less . |
| 29 | The average performance of all funds , both sterling and dollar-based , is just over 14 per cent . |
| 30 | This is usually around 50 per cent , which can be a serious disadvantage . |