Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dentine differs from enamel in that the inorganic part constitutes only about 70 per cent by volume . |
| 2 | While their sales of SelecTronics ' product was entirely mail order two years ago , it now represents only about 30 per cent of the total . |
| 3 | There are about 2,600 housing associations in England and Wales with a total stock of over 600,000 dwellings , and although this represents only about 3 per cent of all dwellings , the associations ' share of the total stock will increase substantially as the full impact of the 1988 Act begins to be felt . |
| 4 | In particular , the air now contains only about 0.05 per cent of carbon dioxide : a trace indeed . |
| 5 | Burmah has just under 30 per cent , which could be sold on to SHV , or another party . |
| 6 | In the domestic market , which represents just over three per cent of coal output , marketing is handled by Central Marketing Services , created when the Solid Fuel Advisory Service was phased out in December 1989 . |
| 7 | However , despite general agreement about the need for groupworkers to be supervised by university trained personnel , this occurs in only 30 per cent of services in Flanders ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | This occurs in about five per cent of cases of gonorrhoea for either site . |
| 9 | Digesting food uses up about 20 per cent of our calorie intake but the rest must be worked off by the energy we expend while living our lives . |
| 10 | Close ties with Performance Fabrics remain and apart from sharing the same site Tygavac buys in about 20 per cent of its products from the Courtaulds Aerospace company . |
| 11 | A commercial mild steel strains elastically about 0.15 per cent . |
| 12 | With a burden of about 150 kilograms — equal to more than a quarter of its body weight — a camel burns only around 15 per cent more fuel than it burns unladen . |
| 13 | Indoors , or in drier weather , the relative humidity decreases , although it seldom falls much below 30 per cent even in hot dry climates . |
| 14 | Jane Fowler asks why only 9 per cent of women who can benefit are taking the option There are still too many doctors who will say ‘ I 'm afraid it 's just your age , my dear ’ or ‘ You 'll just have to live with it' |
| 15 | Hence the equation leaves unexplained just over 70 per cent of the total variance , or conversely it explains just under 30 per cent of the variance [ ] . |
| 16 | Dad 's got a Thing against acting — ‘ Do n't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington ’ — he whines on about eighty-five per cent of actors being unemployed at any one time — ‘ All the travelling — the stress — actors with their massive egos … ’ |
| 17 | On a geographical basis , merchandise trade within the West Pacific region increased by over 30 per cent in 1988 , that between North America and the West Pacific by over 20 per cent , that between Western Europe and the West Pacific and within North America each by about 15-16 per cent , transatlantic trade and trade within Western Europe each by about 14-15 per cent , and other trade flows by about 7 per cent . |
| 18 | Although coronary disease was , and still is , the number one killer of American men , in any particular year it claims perhaps only 1 per cent of the male population . |
| 19 | Foreign exchange controls over about 60 per cent of merchandise imports were lifted at the end of September 1989 and in May 1990 the Senate passed a new bill to replace the Aliens Landholdings Act which had limited the areas of foreign investment and ownership in the country 's economy . |
| 20 | Indeed , dog still makes up about 3½ per cent of the diet of Italian wolves . |
| 21 | It makes up about 38 per cent of the typical American diet — 8 per cent too much , according to nutrition experts . |
| 22 | Britain shells out only 0.3 per cent , and the US 0.2 per cent . |