Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report made a series of recommendations on increasing CID strength , which has fallen sharply from 10 per cent of the force in 1973 to 7.4 per cent , despite an overall large increase in numbers and a recommendation by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate that provincial CIDs should make up 12.4 per cent of police . |
| 2 | I should like about 80 per cent . |
| 3 | ft was wrong , one Kufran Islamic socialist explained , that a man who owned a drilling machine should keep 80 per cent of what it earned each month while those who worked it should share only 20 per cent . |
| 4 | Is it right that someone earning £200,000 a year should pay only 1 per cent . |
| 5 | Twelve months later they could cover only 18 per cent . |
| 6 | I calculate you could spend about 60 per cent of your life at work and 40 per cent at home . |
| 7 | The enlarged business could produce about 25 per cent of group turnover . |
| 8 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 9 | Of the final quarter , I 'd put about 10 per cent into a straight emerging markets fund … and the rest into US smaller companies through the Hypo Foreign & Colonial fund . |
| 10 | With a building society you 'd get back 90 per cent of your savings and with a bank 75 per cent . |
| 11 | Coupons would make up 25 per cent of salaries and would be used to purchase all goods in state shops costing under 1,500 roubles . |
| 12 | Although MEL in Britain would build about 70 per cent of any such radars that the Royal Navy ordered , the other British firms are worried that expertise would be lost if an overseas design won . |
| 13 | In December 1989 Greenpeace consultants suggested that by 1993 power station emissions would again reach 1980 levels and overall emissions would fall not 22 per cent as the government predicted , but only 10 per cent . |
| 14 | The superintendent of police in my area has told me that , were we to round up about 150 people in the county of Cleveland , it would eradicate about 80 per cent . |
| 15 | In this they were supported by a report from the Royal Bank of Canada which suggested that , if Canada fragmented , its annual economic growth rate would average only 1 per cent over the next decade ( rather than the projected 3 per cent if the country remained intact ) and that by the end of the century its unemployment level would have increased to 10-15 per cent ( rather than 7-11 per cent ) . |
| 16 | A similar rise in Bangladesh would inundate about 12 per cent of the country and would require 10 million of its people to be moved . |
| 17 | If these sources were included , renewable energy would contribute about 18 per cent of current world energy use . |
| 18 | This means that , if trains took coal from a mine 10 kilometres up a branch line to a power station 100 km away , the model would expect only 10 per cent of the revenue to be lost if the branch line were closed . |
| 19 | ‘ It has been estimated that building a new abattoir from scratch to meet US rules would cost about 5 per cent more than an EC approved type , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 20 | The devaluation of the pound sterling meant that productions which came from overseas — inevitably of great significance for such an international event — would cost about 25 per cent more . |
| 21 | Over 100 years , the substitute would have only 11 per cent the damage potential of the CFC . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Faced with the two conflicting bids the Department of Trade and Industry decided that the agreed merger between Imperial and UB should be referred to the Monopolies and Merger Commission ( MMC ) , as the combined company would hold over 40 per cent of the snack food market — this together with a similar share of the market held by Nabisco would create a duopolistic situation in the market . |
| 24 | The bill , which would outlaw over 90 per cent of the abortions currently allowed within the state , imposed severe criminal penalties on doctors who failed to comply with its terms . |
| 25 | Under the scheme , successful claimants would pay about 10 per cent of their winnings to a central fund which would meet the costs of unsuccessful claims . |
| 26 | They set up a satellite link with Tokyo and announced that they would charge only 5 per cent buyer 's premium instead of the now customary 10 per cent . |
| 27 | It is very clear that Schools/Industry liaison , as promoted through Partnerships such as Compact , is regarded as an essential resource for all the Core and Foundation subjects which will make up 70 per cent of the National Curriculum . |
| 28 | By the end of the century women will make up 45 per cent of the total civilian labour force . |
| 29 | But to begin with it will cover only 70 per cent of the country , excluding large chunks of the south coast where the cost of air time is highest and the pressure for competition greatest . |
| 30 | The latest opinion polls , published last weekend ( no polls are allowed to be published in the final week before an election ) , predict that the conservative alliance of the neo-Gaullist RPR party and the centre-right UDF party will win over 70 per cent of the 577 seats in the National Assembly . |