Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trustee in bankruptcy in whom the cause of action was vested , assigned it to the bankrupt , who covenanted to pay over 35 per cent of the net proceeds of any successful result . |
| 2 | In its revised form the plan included raising over 40 per cent of the $9,000 million through cuts in government spending , especially in the defence budget . |
| 3 | Hay 's , which came to the market around Grey Monday , managed to sell just 8 per cent of the shares on issue . |
| 4 | ‘ A practically unknown person managed to collect nearly 40 per cent of the vote after only three weeks ’ work . ’ |
| 5 | He had received over 80 per cent . |
| 6 | The measured unemployment rate for the advanced capitalist countries had fallen below 3 per cent . |
| 7 | At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent . |
| 8 | On the previous day Harkin had won only 1 per cent of the vote in the Nevada caucus , which had been won by Brown with 35 per cent ; Clinton had polled 26 per cent , Tsongas 20 per cent , and 17 per cent of the votes had been cast for uncommitted delegates . |
| 9 | Ahead of the Supreme Soviet elections in Latvia the nationalist Latvian Popular Front had been confidently predicting that it would secure a two-thirds majority in the 201-seat chamber , basing this prediction on its unexpectedly strong showing in the local elections in December 1989 when its candidates had won around 75 per cent of all seats , including half the seats in the city soviet of the predominantly Russian-populated capital , Riga . |
| 10 | With some votes still to be counted , the coalition had won around 44 per cent of the 3,600,000 votes cast , a fall in support of some 5 per cent compared with the election of 1988 . |
| 11 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 12 | He replaced Diogo Freitas do Amaral , who resigned in October 1991 , after the party had polled only 4.4 per cent of the vote in that month 's general election [ see p. 38546 ] . |
| 13 | The MDP had won 24 per cent of votes , but only a small number of seats ; the NPP and SDP had polled about 5 per cent each and the MPFL and the MPG about 1 per cent each . |
| 14 | Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent . |
| 15 | The 20 per cent of the poorest households , who had claimed only 0.9 per cent of the ‘ original income ’ , rose through welfare benefits and other supplementary assistance to a ‘ final income ’ share of 9.0 per cent . |
| 16 | The WHO estimated that reported cases of cholera worldwide had risen about 30 per cent in 1990 to almost 70,000 , even before the outbreak in South America . |
| 17 | The new rate , which compared with levels of 14 per cent in October 1990 , followed news that factory-gate prices had risen only 5.7 per cent year-on-year in June , compared with 6 per cent in May . |
| 18 | By late yesterday afternoon Fletcher had bought about 42 per cent of UK Paper , including the 4.5 per cent stake of former bidders Metsa-Serla . |
| 19 | The other had classified only sixteen per cent of charges in this manner . |
| 20 | By 1983 , unemployment had reached over 12 per cent , and long-term unemployment ( defined as being without work for over a year ) had emerged as a significant economic and social issue . |
| 21 | At the turn of the century government expenditure as a proportion of G N P amounted to roughly 10 per cent ; by 1970 this figure had reached over 40 per cent . |
| 22 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 23 | By the end of 1981 over 350,000 Apple IIs had been purchased ; the company had experienced over 100 per cent growth annually and continues to enjoy a similar growth pattern . |
| 24 | Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " . |
| 25 | The widespread power cuts to factories which had then been necessary had caused nearly 15 per cent of the UK workforce to be laid off and were estimated to have cost some £200 millions of vital production . |
| 26 | But Darlington MP Michael Fallon said the numbers working in Darlington had gone up ten per cent in the last ten years . |
| 27 | In a study by Hall secondary heads were , however , said to devote only 14 per cent of their time to teaching , with 10 per cent given over to " ceremonial " , 10 per cent to educational policy and curriculum matters , 33 per cent to " operations and administrative management " , 22 per cent to human management ( staff and pupils ) and 10 per cent to external management ( Hall quoted in Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) ) . |
| 28 | It took a bit of doing — for instance , the disposal site had to check out 100 per cent . |
| 29 | In elections in March , however , candidates backed by the city party committees had taken barely 20 per cent of council seats in Moscow and fewer still in Leningrad . |
| 30 | Cedric Brown , BG 's chief executive , said that competitors had taken over 27 per cent of total contract gas sales last year , compared with just 5 per cent in May 1991 . |