Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to maintain its market position as a leading systems and software house , it would need to persuade about 70 per cent of its key employees in the north London locations to relocate with the company . |
| 2 | Of course , I know you wo n't like giving up fifteen per cent of the total equity of SUPPLYKITS — nobody would . |
| 3 | It is not fair , perhaps , that with 23 per cent of the vote the Alliance should have won only 3 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change . |
| 5 | As a minority shareholding interest in an unquoted company , his shares would have attracted only 30 per cent relief , leaving £21,000 ( £30,000 — £9,000 ) for inclusion in his estate for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 6 | Mineral revenues would have to finance nearly 20 per cent of recurrent expenditure , which Mogae described as " a disturbing trend indicating our dependence on the mineral sector " . |
| 7 | Certainly , the Palestinian Arabs can reflect that when Roberts drew Jerusalem , the Jewish population of the land can have numbered scarcely 10 per cent of the total . |
| 8 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 9 | Er November automatic , should have gone up eight per cent automatic . |
| 10 | er that should have gone up eight per cent . |
| 11 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 12 | Blackpool , who offered just £2,000 against City 's valuation of £70,000 , will also have to hand over 25 per cent of any profit on a subsequent transfer . |
| 13 | ‘ They are asking for eight per cent , whereas the housing associations can afford to pay only three-and-a-half per cent . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ At least six per cent said they would use the bus less often and I do not know of any business in this town which can afford to throw away six per cent of its income . ’ |