Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [num] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survey found that Wadworths , Youngs , Fullers , Marstons and Adnams among the regionals had all done particularly well from the provision , accounting together for nearly 30 per cent . |
| 2 | Some 80 per cent of diminished-responsibility defences are accepted by the prosecution , and only in around 13 per cent of cases does the prosecution contest the defence evidence and thus require the jury to apply section 2 . |
| 3 | SERIOUS business fraud cases in the UK soared alarmingly by over 28 per cent in 1992 , to £468 million . |
| 4 | Since the new boxes could be locked quickly into its computer and management system , operating costs would rise only by about 20 per cent . |
| 5 | Taking the years 1956–70 , if all ( net ) US direct investment overseas had instead been invested in the United States , gross private investment there would have increased only by around 4 per cent . |
| 6 | Mortgage rates are still at around 9.25 per cent , which is now 2.25 per cent above the bank base rate . |
| 7 | ( Clearly there is also an indirect contribution via the resulting growth in wages. ) 1958 was the only year in which the level of investment fell , and the average growth rate over any five-year period was always at least 4 per cent per annum . |
| 8 | The Socialist Party ( PS ) is trailing badly with around 20 per cent support with the ecologists close behind . |
| 9 | On Nov. 25 the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) supported the former view , but cut its forecasts for economic growth in 1992 from September 's projection of 3 per cent to between 2 and 2.5 per cent and predicted that unemployment would rise slightly to over 7 per cent . |
| 10 | A lead-only second-hand car is now worth about 10 per cent less than an unleaded equivalent . |
| 11 | Only 37 per cent agreed that employers handled applications efficiently and fairly against nearly 70 per cent who thought that universities and polytechnics did so . |
| 12 | The South of England are in second place with 14 per cent , while Scotland lags well behind with only 9 per cent . |
| 13 | Compared with 1991 , they were running overall at about 25 per cent down in the regions and 29 per cent down at CAS HQ , with smaller jobs showing the greatest fall in London . |
| 14 | According to the Cambodian government 's own Forestry Department , the country 's forest cover has shrunk from 73 per cent 20 years ago to around 40 per cent today . |
| 15 | The preference for polling has increased from about 50 per cent 60 years ago to about 95 per cent today , presumably by selection to suit management systems in which the cattle are housed for as much as eight months in the winter . |
| 16 | But last month , the annual rate of inflation fell dramatically to only 1.7 per cent , its lowest level since September 1967 . |
| 17 | Failure in the quadruple module , even by only 1 per cent , meant all four credits were lost . |
| 18 | In 1989 the average income for lone parents was £134.61 compared with £339.71 for the couples with two children , equivalent by then to only 40 per cent ( DE , 1990c ) . |
| 19 | The significance of these percentages can be gauged by comparing them with the South East 's share of total manufacturing which stood then at about 27 per cent . |
| 20 | The addition of occupational pension rights to an estimate of the share of wealth owned by the poorest 80 per cent of the population in 1972 raises the figure from 10 per cent to 20 per cent , and including state-pension rights doubles this again to over 40 per cent . |
| 21 | By contrast , off-peak sales developed faster than peak sales overall , so that the underlying load factor ( conventionally measured as the actual sales over the year compared with the sales that would have resulted if peak demand had been supplied throughout the year ) rose satisfactorily from around 43 per cent on nationalisation to around 47 per cent ten years later . |
| 22 | The recommendation was that at least 62.5 per cent of time should be compulsorily allocated . |