Example sentences of "[num] and [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giotto was launched in July 1985 and almost 70 per cent of its original instruments remained intact . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Tass reported in June that 20 per cent of electric power would be nuclear-generated by 1995 and over 30 per cent by 2000 ( compared with 11 per cent in 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Almost half are over 70 and only 13 per cent are under 50 . |
| 4 | On the other end of the childbearing period , infant mortality in the maternal age group 40 years and over is also very high ; in the 39 WFS countries about 24 per cent higher than in the 30–39 and about 30 per cent higher than in the 20–29 maternal age groups . |
| 5 | For those aged 75 and over 20 per cent of men and 16 per cent of women reported an in-patient stay in hospital in the previous year . |
| 6 | All chairmen were social class I , the majority of employers ' representatives were social class II and over 80 per cent of employees ' representatives fell within social classes II and III ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | As a result , in the sixty years from 1851 the proportion of old people living in institutions almost doubled , rising to over 7 per cent of men over 65 and nearly 10 per cent of those over 75 , and slightly over half this figure for women . |
| 8 | The real reason is that competition between the various issuers has forced down the charges levied on the retailers — once as high as 3 to 5 per cent , down to an average of 2.2 per cent in 1988 and now 1.7 per cent and falling . |
| 9 | The travelling communities also tend to be younger with 50 per cent of them under 20 and only four per cent over 65 . |
| 10 | According to UN envoy Jean Ripert , sent to Jordan in October , the crisis would cost Jordan as much as 30 per cent of GDP in 1990 and about 50 per cent in 1991 . |
| 11 | After a visit to Amman in October the UN special envoy , Jean Ripert , estimated that the crisis would cost Jordan as much as 30 per cent of GDP in 1990 and about 50 per cent in 1991 . |