Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [adj] per 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 | A commercial mild steel strains elastically about 0.15 per cent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Indoors , or in drier weather , the relative humidity decreases , although it seldom falls much below 30 per cent even in hot dry climates . |
| 10 | 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 [ ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |