Example sentences of "[adv] 50 per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Big Three US carmakers , who controlled more than 85 per cent of the luxury market 10 years ago , saw their share drop to below 50 per cent last year . |
| 2 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 3 | However Mr Olsen made it clear that the company had no intention of allowing its stake to fall below 50 per cent . |
| 4 | The increase in tax rates for higher earners , which would follow a Labour victory on Thursday , would then be comparable to the top tax rate across the Irish Sea , which this month is to be reduced below 50 per cent . |
| 5 | In the west ( Kordofan and Darfur ) and the parts of the south for which any figures were available in 1986/87 ( for some areas no figures were available because of the war ) the average pass rate was below 50 per cent . |
| 6 | A top firm of criminal lawyers told us they did not believe that the chances of a successful prosecution fell below 50 per cent — the CPS 's normal test . |
| 7 | In six tests for the Wallabies since the World Cup final his success ratio has dipped below 50 per cent . |
| 8 | Similarly , POC is constrained above 50 per cent accuracy and POE is constrained below 50 per cent accuracy . |
| 9 | At the same time the level of grant was steadily reduced for all authorities until it was below 50 per cent of local costs . |
| 10 | By 1985–6 it had brought it back to just below 50 per cent . |
| 11 | Data for 1987 suggest that nearly 80 per cent of families where the head of household is unemployed have incomes below 50 per cent of average income ( Oppenheim , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | In 1979 almost 65 per cent of places in residential homes were in local authority establishments , but by 1986 the proportion had fallen to just below 50 per cent . |
| 13 | Fresh elections were due on April 7 in six constituencies where turnout on Feb. 24 had been below 50 per cent ( the average turnout was over 71 per cent ) , and were also awaited in two constituencies where a run-off on March 4 had failed to produce a winner . |
| 14 | Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " . |
| 15 | According to the government 's privatization strategy , by 1994 the proportion of state assets should be reduced to below 50 per cent , with foreign ownership reaching 25 per cent . |
| 16 | At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent . |
| 17 | Even during the 1920s and 1930s , density never fell below 50 per cent . |
| 18 | He estimates that the market handles only 50 per cent of the trade in fresh fish in southern England . |
| 19 | But even Ogonyok , considered the most chic and sought-after of the progressive press , is running at only 50 per cent of 1989 levels . |
| 20 | When the Housing Corporation refused to contribute to the cost of these features , the HBC relaxed its general policy of contributing only 50 per cent of the cost of eligible items and met the full cost . |
| 21 | Housing authorities have a general duty to house ‘ vulnerable ’ people but a recent survey by the National Children 's Home found that only 50 per cent of authorities would classify as vulnerable a young homeless person with no parents and no support . |
| 22 | NMFS caved in to pressure from the tuna industry , and claimed that it was possible to place observers aboard only 50 per cent of tuna seiners for the season beginning 1 January 1989 . |
| 23 | The Roman empire saw the increasing debasement of its staple silver coin : from almost pure silver in the early first century AD it sank to only 50 per cent fine by about AD200 and to only about 1–2 per cent by AD270 . |
| 24 | People can opt for the group 's Global trust , where only 50 per cent of the funds go into the UK , or for one of the UK-based unit trusts , or pick one of more than 200 shares on the Pru 's list , or select a combination of both direct and indirect . |
| 25 | Even in the university centres , perhaps only 50 per cent of cases are notified , while reporting from private practitioners is non-existent . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is only 50 per cent at present . |
| 28 | Analysis indicated that only 50 per cent of the women could comply with the mobility requirement compared with 65 per cent of the men . |
| 29 | Savage , Evans and Savage ( 1981 ) show that adding fingerspelling to lip-spoken messages increases comprehension significantly ; unfortunately , this increase results in only 50 per cent understood at 14 years of age . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm only 50 per cent sure now , as two said they 'd think about it ’ . |