Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
| 2 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 3 | increase for school buildings next year is a good outcome , given that the level of inflation is only about 4 per cent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The manufacturing base , which is already nearing the limits of viability — it is only about 20 per cent . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These stand out as islands within a sea of districts where the proportion is generally below 3 per cent ( OPCS , 1984a ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The bank 's liability is generally about 10 per cent of the contract price , but , however it can be higher . |
| 12 | Capacity utilisation for these five factories is thus only 44.2 per cent . |
| 13 | This poorer quality is reflected in their price , which is normally about 30 per cent less . |
| 14 | The average performance of all funds , both sterling and dollar-based , is just over 14 per cent . |
| 15 | This is usually around 50 per cent , which can be a serious disadvantage . |
| 16 | But , with rental companies such as Britain 's Thorn-EMI backing the Japanese VHS system , the market share for Europe 's only manufacturer of recorders is still around 5 per cent in Britain and 20 per cent in Western Europe as a whole . |
| 17 | Underground activity generally causes fewer headaches in countries like the the US , UK , Canada and Australia where it is still under 15 per cent of all economic activity . |
| 18 | In other words , in general , manual workers have to work more hours per week to achieve a gross average wage which is still about 25 per cent less than that of the non-manual worker . |
| 19 | But here in the UK it is still only 7 per cent . |
| 20 | In fact when each rises by say , five per cent the total increase is still only five per cent . |
| 21 | The amount of reclaimed glass used in manufacture doubled between 1983 and 1988 , but this is still only 16 per cent of the total . |
| 22 | Firstly are those with little damage to the skull , where the ratio of isolated to associated maxillae is less that 0.5 ( column 5 ) or the percentage of maxillae in skulls ( per cent completeness ) is more then 70 per cent ( column 4 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 24 | He pointed out in Committee that , according to the Audit Commission , the proportion in inner city areas is probably around 40 per cent . |
| 25 | The first , and most important , is that the natural rate of increase of the Albanian population is about 2.5 per cent per annum , while the corresponding rate among Serbs and Montenegrins is probably below 0.5 per cent . |
| 26 | The average wage increase in industry this spring is slightly below five per cent for the first time in four years . |
| 27 | As expenditure has risen so have taxes and the proportion of G N P taken up by taxes and social security payments is also around 40 per cent . |
| 28 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 29 | Thus cheese is now around 18 per cent more expensive than it was before Black Monday . |
| 30 | That compares very well with the current rate of inflation , which is now below 4 per cent . |