Example sentences of "below [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slower tester ran just below 70 per cent of MHR and found it uncomfortable to push any harder for 10 minutes , let alone 20 . |
| 2 | There is general agreement that Chlamydia trachomatis is the pathogen responsible for a high percentage of cases of NSU , but the best isolation rates still remain below 70 per cent of cases and are more usually in the region of 40 to 50 per cent . |
| 3 | For couples with children the threshold income was 151 per cent of income support payments , and for single parents severe deprivation occurred when levels of income fell below 168 per cent of the amounts available from income support . |
| 4 | On those occasions when he had felt the need to demonstrate his power to management , he would create an instant departmental dispute which always had the immediate effect of lowering that day 's efficiency to below fifty per cent . |
| 5 | The details of leaning recommendations may vary in different makes and models of engine , but for Lycomings , for example , the rule is to use rich mixture at all times above 75 per cent but lean whenever at constant power below 75 per cent . |
| 6 | We expect the level of running costs of the Trident force to be well below 2 per cent . |
| 7 | I have made it clear that the cost of running a Trident deterrent will be well below 2 per cent . |
| 8 | Consumer prices rose by 10.4 per cent in 1990 — the product of heavy wage demands in an economy characterized by labour shortages — unemployment , below 2 per cent since 1987 , stood at 1.5 per cent in 1990 , but was expected to rise to 2.8 per cent in 1991 . |
| 9 | The Bank concludes that , despite the remarkable fall in the headline rate last month , the underlying level of inflation is still close to the top end of the target range of 1 per cent to 4 per cent , though at this stage of the cycle it should be below 2 per cent , and the cost pressures created by devaluation have still to feed fully into the economy . |
| 10 | Keynes 's own policies have often been misrepresented : in the 1930s , for example , he was well aware of the structural problems of British industry , and did not believe that unemployment could be reduced much below 12 per cent . |
| 11 | By early 1981 our support had fallen to below 30 per cent and as the months went by it plummeted even further to reach 23 per cent at the end of the year . |
| 12 | The Christian Democrats — 34.3 per cent last time — are expecting a small loss , but a drop to below 30 per cent would be seen as disaster . |
| 13 | Their share of the national vote dropped more than five per cent to below 30 per cent for the first time . |
| 14 | Although government figures show adult illiteracy rates continuing to fall to below 30 per cent , the real rates are thought to be far higher than this . |
| 15 | Indoors , or in drier weather , the relative humidity decreases , although it seldom falls much below 30 per cent even in hot dry climates . |
| 16 | Remarkably , the UK proportion of employment in industry fell below 30 per cent by 1987 . |
| 17 | ROI as a percentage is in the low teens for market share below 30 per cent and up to the mid to high thirties for market shares above 80 per cent . |
| 18 | The proportion of one parent families living ‘ on the margins of poverty ’ has increased since 1979 when a half of all one parent families had incomes below 140 per cent of sb . |
| 19 | The further the cut-off point is reduced below 100 per cent , however , the more difficult it becomes to specify what has been learned . |
| 20 | Now when the exporter exchanges the Deutschmarks for sterling the rate might well be £1=DM2.95 giving a rate of return of £33 898.31 only , £2465.33 less than expected , or alternatively just below 7 per cent less than expected . |
| 21 | The average expectation of interest rates under the Tories was just below 10 per cent , while under Labour rates are expected to rise to 11.6 per cent . |
| 22 | In the first phase of development in the early 1980s around 30 per cent of changes were bought by former council house tenants , but as prices have rocketed this percentage is now below 10 per cent . |
| 23 | This increased to 22.1 per cent in 1974 and subsequently never fell below 10 per cent in that decade . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 26 | But , as table 4. 1 shows , by the early 1980s the railways ' share of passenger traffic was well below 10 per cent in both countries , their share of freight traffic not that much higher . |
| 27 | The Newcastle 's cap and collar mortgage , where the interest can not rise about 10.75 per cent or fall below 9.5 per cent for a full seven years is a good bet , especially when you consider that over the last 10 years , the average interest rate has been around 12 per cent . |
| 28 | For an investment-intensity ratio of below 35 per cent , it seems that one gets an ROI above 30 per cent , whereas , when investment intensity is above 70 per cent , ROI falls to about 10 per cent . |
| 29 | These envisaged ( i ) an " interstate compensation fund " to invest in " physical and human capital " in EC states where GDP per capita was below 90 per cent of the EC average ; ( ii ) contributions to the EC budget from member countries based on their " relative prosperity " ; and ( iii ) a relaxation of regional fund regulations to allow states to match EC funding according to their " financial capacity " . |
| 30 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |