Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reporting rate , and the detection rate , for murder is over 90 per cent , and for serious assault over 80 per cent . |
| 2 | ‘ Our staff turnover is down 50 per cent and that is not entirely due to the effects of the recession , ’ says general manager of the Holiday Inn Bristol , a Scotts ' hotel which recently completed a £10 million refurbishment and emerged as the Bristol Marriott . |
| 3 | In Liverpool drink-related crime is down 22 per cent and in the Thames Valley it has dropped 13 per cent so far this year . |
| 4 | up on 1979 , and business investment is up 27 per cent . |
| 5 | This optimum is not 100 per cent debt financing as equity is regarded as a safety cushion which will absorb any losses which might be incurred during the ordinary course of trading and/or liquidation . |
| 6 | Again , the statistics published this week — not by the Department of the Environment , but based on figures provided by local authorities throughout the country — show that the figure is not 30 per cent . |
| 7 | Department of Energy analyses also imply that the scope for energy savings could be as high as 60 per cent , although a more realistic figure is around 20 per cent . |
| 8 | Off the top of my head , I think that the figure is about 25 per cent . |
| 9 | Novello Allegro 's participation was also in doubt because of the ground , but Meade added that the horse is not 100 per cent . |
| 10 | Labour took Thurrock , Gravesham , and Feltham and Heston , in all of which the Sun 's penetration is over 40 per cent , and had one of its biggest swings , 6.8 per cent , in Hayes and Harlington , where 42 per cent of homes buy it . |
| 11 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 12 | The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity . |
| 13 | No party even hinted at reintroducing the Acts , and that sector is now 5 per cent . |
| 14 | Rots can not flourish if the moisture content of the wood is below 18 per cent although the spores can remain alive in quite dry timber , waiting for a rainy day . |
| 15 | The average car engine is only 15 per cent efficient . |
| 16 | Through a combination of capital projects and employee involvement in looking for improvements , the waste [ as defined under SARA title 111 ] produced by the site is now 40 per cent down on 1988 . |
| 17 | The rate of tax is currently 35 per cent for large companies and 25 per cent ( equal to the basic income tax rate ) for small companies . |
| 18 | A glance at the percentages of synonyms shows that even when the file is only 20 per cent packed , almost 10 per cent of the file will be stored as synonyms . |
| 19 | In South Dakota the number of cattle has dropped from 5.2 million to four million since the bankruptcy crisis of ‘ 85 , and the human population is down 20 per cent . |
| 20 | A rough estimate of the current amount of housebuilding in towns of over 50,000 population is around 15 per cent . |
| 21 | The first , and most important , is that the natural rate of increase of the Albanian population is about 2.5 per cent per annum , while the corresponding rate among Serbs and Montenegrins is probably below 0.5 per cent . |
| 22 | Here , the rural population density is 208 km-2 and the annual increase in population is c. 3.1 per cent , but the amount of agricultural land per head of population is only 0.52 ha . |
| 23 | Bell Group is about 75 per cent owned by Bond Corp . |
| 24 | The overall tax charge is thus 61 per cent . |
| 25 | Thus the maximum saving of diesel fuel is about 85 per cent . |
| 26 | Such air is called saturated and thus the ‘ relative humidity ’ on a wet day is around 100 per cent . |
| 27 | Though Brazil 's massive debt of about $115 billion is only 30 per cent of GNP , its debt service ratio is over 50 per cent . |
| 28 | At the time of writing , the prime rate is 8 per cent and the rate of inflation is under 4 per cent . |
| 29 | The population as a whole is about 10 per cent fatter than it used to be . |
| 30 | In less than three years , output is up 25 per cent to record levels , productivity is up 50 per cent , unit costs are down by almost a third , and Sizewell B is ahead of schedule and within budget . |