Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 2 | A small part of these sales taxes is raised from industries other than wholesale and retail trade , but in 1985 74 per cent was collected from retail organizations and nearly 13 per cent from wholesale organizations . |
| 3 | For example , those aged 65 and over accounted for one-third of all NHS prescriptions and about 40 per cent of acute hospital-bed occupation . |
| 4 | Approximately 58 per cent of manual workers were employed in West Ham , compared with 74 per cent in local shops and only 33 per cent in clerical jobs . |
| 5 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |
| 6 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 7 | Nearly three-quarters of the boys who were apprenticed to cutlers in and around Sheffield between 1650 and 1724 came from within a 15-mile radius of their new homes and only 4 per cent migrated more than 40 miles . |
| 8 | The number of teachers employed in state secondary schools was such that while women constituted 45 per cent of the teaching force ? they only held 15 per cent of the headships and only 0.7 per cent of women were heads . |
| 9 | There are now more than 6400 restaurants in 41 countries and about 85 per cent of these restaurants are owned and operationed by franchisees . |
| 10 | In contrast , the viverrids produced less breakage , with the humerus , for instance , being represented by 43 per cent complete bones and only 44 per cent distal ends . |
| 11 | Of those cases reported , less than half are prosecuted through the courts and only 23 per cent result in convictions . |
| 12 | It suggested that 65 per cent of the country 's top 300 companies did not understand the Government 's economic policies and only 29 per cent thought they understood them . |
| 13 | However , the 1989 AMERG survey asked specifically whether the ending of the mandatory scale had led to reductions of fees charged for individual projects and over 68 per cent of respondents stated that it had . |
| 14 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 15 | These trading companies handle about half of all Japanese exports and approximately 65 per cent of imports which means that they can arrange the purchase of raw materials from abroad , organize the export of finished goods as well as marketing within Japan . |
| 16 | ‘ Marius Steen made over his three houses and about 75 per cent of his other assets to his son some years ago . |
| 17 | Looking up charges for a cricket net or a tennis court per hour yielded high success rates ( around 80 per cent for each of the bottom two bands and around 90 per cent for the top band ) . |
| 18 | Only 13 per cent of carers in the surveyed workforce had any support from charities or voluntary organisations and only 12 per cent received help from health and social services . |
| 19 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in Leicester almost a third of all women workers and almost 20 per cent . |
| 20 | Of the population aged 65 years and over 60 per cent are female ( see Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 21 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more schools are introducing some mixed ability groups in their first three years and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now , something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 22 | More significantly , only a fifth believe lawyers should not involve themselves in the general running of other people 's businesses and just three per cent that they are currently too aggressive in selling their services . |
| 23 | The 57,000 boat people in Hong Kong are taxing the colony 's resources and nearly 90 per cent of new arrivals are unlikely to qualify as refugees , he said in the second day 's debate on the Queen 's speech . |
| 24 | The final result of a referendum showed that of the 9,123 native Andorrans eligible to vote 74.2 per cent had said ‘ yes ’ to the changes and only 25.8 per cent ‘ no ’ . |
| 25 | Data from the Labour Force Survey for the late 1980s indicate that around a half of Afro-Caribbean households and over 70 per cent of Pakistani and Bangladeshi households contained children , compared with around one-third of white households ( Haskey , 1989 ) . |
| 26 | In particular , the massive increase in car ownership from about 10 per cent in the early 1950s , to about 58 per cent of all urban households and around 70 per cent of rural households in 1982 ( Phillips and Williams , 1984 ) has let more and more rural people travel to a greater range of destinations at their own time and convenience . |
| 27 | An investigation of 300 boxmakers in 1915 ( of whom 78 per cent were married women and 16 per cent widowed ) found that one-third were totally dependent on their earnings , one-third partly dependent , and one-third worked only for ‘ pin money ’ ; but a much larger study of Birmingham workers in 1906 had found that 52 per cent of outworkers ( a category including those employed in small workshops and homeworkers ) were married with husbands earning small or irregular wages , 46 per cent were widows or deserted wives and only 0.4 per cent worked for pocket money . |
| 28 | In 1850 , 64.74 per cent of total receipts on French railways came from passengers and only 35.26 per cent from goods . |
| 29 | The company , founded in 1974 to create and publish practical reference books for adults , now sells its titles in over 80 countries and in 37 languages and almost 90 per cent of the 560 titles originated over the company 's history are still in print . |
| 30 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |