Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 2 | During the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries over 60 per cent of the parish churches in England were extensively rebuilt , normally in the magnificent Perpendicular style of Gothic architecture first employed in the construction of Gloucester Cathedral during the thirteenth century . |
| 3 | The non-celibate parish clergy were little better off than their peasant flock , but in the early sixteenth century over 25 per cent of all cultivated land was in clerical hands . |
| 4 | In the mid eighteenth century only 10 per cent of holders lived outside the Home Counties , the majority of ordinary holders being members of the London bourgeoisie or petit bourgeoisie : merchants , bankers , brokers , jobbers , clergymen , doctors , lawyers , shopkeepers , artisans and sometimes even servants . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century about 70 per cent of all Siberia 's ‘ Russians ’ lived in the three most westerly provinces ( Tobolsk , Tomsk and Yeniseisk ) , while only 30 per cent lived in the eastern half of Siberia . |
| 6 | By the third week around 17 per cent thought Labour and the Alliance were also concentrating on defence . |