Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are around three million players in Britain , but only 10 per cent of these are actually affiliated to a club and around 10 per cent of the club members are actually rated . |
| 2 | So far non-advertising revenue stands at 38 per cent of turnover and around 30 per cent of profits , though HTV does not have plans to make any large acquisitions , such as the purchase of CCA Galleries last year . |
| 3 | ‘ This is a $15 billion industry and already 30 per cent of it is accounted for by diet drinks . ’ |
| 4 | Of the total island population , eighty-six per cent live on the south side and only fourteen per cent on the north . |
| 5 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 6 | of students were claiming housing benefit and only 2 per cent . |
| 7 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 8 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |
| 9 | In fact the purchasing power of a single person 's pension in Britain was just less than 75 per cent of the French pension , 60 per cent of its West German counterpart and only 50 per cent of the value of the equivalent Dutch pension . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Research has shown that 70 per cent of us would prefer to die at home and only 30 per cent of us do . |
| 11 | The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned . |
| 12 | Revenue figures necessarily start at a modest level and even 100 per cent growth leaves us with a level only slightly less modest . |
| 13 | In elections held on Sept. 29 to the city parliament in Bremen , with an electorate of about 500,000 , the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) , which had held power in Bremen for the past 20 years , remained the largest party but lost its overall majority and almost 12 per cent of the vote . |
| 14 | This is just 3 per cent of the world installed base and only 11 per cent of the installed base in Europe . |
| 15 | When asked about the job ‘ scientist ’ , 69 per cent said that it was a man 's job and only 9 per cent said it was a woman 's job . |
| 16 | In December , 31 per cent of respondents agreed that RBS was a good place for a mortgage and only 19 per cent . |
| 17 | In October , 36 per cent of respondents disagreed that RBS was a good place for a mortgage and only 24 per cent agreed . |
| 18 | Opinion polls conducted immediately after the election showed 36 per cent against EC membership and only 32 per cent in favour . |
| 19 | The overall level of support for independence among the republics ' ethnic-Russian and other minorities was higher than expected , especially in Latvia ( minorities constituted over 36 per cent of Estonia 's population and around 47 per cent of Latvia 's ) . |
| 20 | In 1958 , according to the same calculations , the Soviet Union influenced 31 per cent of the world 's population and 9 per cent of the world 's GNP ( excluding the USSR itself ) ; by 1979 the USSR influenced only 6 per cent of the world 's population and only 5 per cent of the world 's GNP , again excluding the USSR itself . |
| 21 | As part of the service , which involves a £250 fee and either one per cent of the purchase price or 15 per cent of any reduction of the asking price he negotiates , they are helped , to analyse their needs , expectations and priorities . |
| 22 | In Brown 's 1968 survey only 3 per cent of workers knew the standard rate of tax and only 6 per cent of managers were able to estimate their marginal rate of tax . |
| 23 | As late as 1975 , the proportion of young people in grammar schools between the ages of 16 and 19 was 14 per cent for the professional group and only 1 per cent for the unskilled manual group . |
| 24 | ‘ Britain 's private sector service industries earned almost £32 billion from exports in 1991 and accounted for 57 per cent of GDP and over 60 per cent of employment ’ , the survey said . |
| 25 | Although self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs , Lithuania imported 90 per cent of its fuel and nearly 100 per cent of its industrial raw materials from the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Wrongful dismissal actions seldom reach a full trial in the High Court and about 70 per cent of all unfair dismissal claims are settled or withdrawn without the need for a hearing . |
| 27 | We have values of 80 per cent thrown at us for a fish which , when feeding on natural food , ingests about 80 per cent water and around 7 per cent protein ! |
| 28 | Yet what do we then make of a Gallup finding ( 21 — 6 May 1987 ) that , when asked to choose between inflation and unemployment as the greater threat to them and their families , 49 per cent chose inflation and only 43 per cent unemployment ? |
| 29 | The latest government figures — unpublished as yet — show causes of serious pollution in 1982 as 60 per cent agricultural , 22 per cent urban sewage and only 18 per cent industrial . |
| 30 | Around four million barrels ( 660,000 tonnes ) of oil were being burned each day in March 1991 , nearly three times the pre-war Kuwait output and almost 10 per cent of the world 's daily ration . |