Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [adj] [no cls] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using this combined treatment regime , the patients experienced considerable improvement in their condition in over 80 per cent of the cases , and most of this was achieved within two weeks . |
| 2 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 3 | The company , formerly part of ICI , saw the pre-tax total drop by 7 per cent to £68 million , on turnover up nearly 4 per cent at £1.01 billion . |
| 4 | 1988 ) , and a residential option follows 60 per cent of foster home breakdowns compared with 25 per cent fostering again only 11 per cent the other way ( Millham et al . , |
| 5 | Group pre-tax profits to 30 June increased from £7.11m to £9.22m on turnover ahead just 3 per cent to £181m . |
| 6 | This delivers , through the unmodified hardware configuration , motion video at between 12.5 and 15 frames per second over about 25 per cent of the screen . |
| 7 | If the rate of violence amongst families in the population is relatively low , and we have noted that the incidence of sexual abuse maybe around 10 per cent while the incidence of serious physical abuse may be 3–4 per cent ( Straus et al . , |
| 8 | During the same period only about 70 per cent of the pupils who complete fifth grade every year will be able to continue their schooling in the regular education system . |
| 9 | If a man is suspected of having gonorrhoea , examination of the discharge from his urethra will demonstrate the organism in over 90 per cent of the cases when it is there . |
| 10 | The CLASS system was developed utilising ECGD 's experience in the export credit market over many years and provides its policyholders with a very fast and effective credit limit service on over 70 per cent of all limit applications . |
| 11 | each ; immigration just under 1 per cent . |
| 12 | We had 15 per cent interest rates , inflation just under 11 per cent . |
| 13 | Kiernan , Reid and Jones ( 1979 ) indicate its use in over 80 per cent of schools for children with severe learning disabilities . |
| 14 | The small number of observations and the biased nature of the sample did not produce average betas of unity and the effect on the overall portfolio risk was less dramatic , the lowest being 15 per cent for one of the 27-share portfolios and the highest being just under 26 per cent for one of the 2 share portfolios . |
| 15 | However , although this still may be effective in the less-developed world where about 50 per cent of the world 's labour force are still engaged in agriculture ( Grigg , 1976 ) it can no longer be used in the developed world for , as the next section shows , primary employment in most western countries has fallen below 10 or even 5 per cent . |
| 16 | Banks appear to be growing in popularity : a year ago only 17 per cent would have bought life cover through a bank . |
| 17 | Other brewers were surprised that Guinness — marketing a black beer in a country where nearly 90 per cent of the market is blonde beer — was on television . |
| 18 | However in East Anglia the South Downs group still supplied a large proportion ( this time somewhat under 50 per cent of the axeheads ) , whereas East Anglian sources , such as Grimes Graves , had apparently cornered only a small proportion of the market . |
| 19 | This method of acupuncture is also of value in over 60 per cent of cases of multiple sclerosis . |
| 20 | In a previous double-blind trial , it had been found to be of value in about 70 per cent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and about 40 per cent of those with osteoarthritis . |
| 21 | Some form of physical violence was directed against the victim in about 80 per cent . |