Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are less then 20 per cent overweight , you will be able to increase your pace much faster . |
| 2 | A quick scan through the ‘ for sale ’ pages of U.S. and British magazines indicates that prices for aircraft in the USA are only about sixty per cent of those in the UK . |
| 3 | Property prices are down around 30-35 per cent from the high of 1988 , and for waterside locations have plummeted by 40 per cent , says Dai Jenkins of Gribble , Booth & Taylor , who have branches in Devon , Cornwall , Somerset and Dorset . |
| 4 | In the past 12 months alone , burglaries are down almost 8 per cent , car crime around 50 per cent . |
| 5 | With such a small population averages tend to be meaningless but butterfats are generally about 4 per cent and milk yields can be almost as high as a Jersey 's . |
| 6 | However , as a broad generalisation , premiums are usually around 0.5 per cent and upwards of the annual sales you want covered . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I am still not 100 per cent and it was a bit of a gamble playing against Ipswich , but it paid off . ’ |
| 8 | CD players have come down in price , but the discs themselves are still about thirty per cent dearer than in America . |
| 9 | Recent statistics from the ministry of finance show that both inflation and unemployment are still below 3 per cent . |
| 10 | Power- house : huge sums of capital invested in new factories and equipment in the last decade will help Japan maintain its lead in car and electronics manufacture Inflation and unemployment are still below 3 per cent |
| 11 | Lower limb injuries are behind about 60 per cent of our call-outs and tiredness and unfitness are the major causes . |
| 12 | The full-year loan and grant are now over 30 per cent . |
| 13 | Therefore the proportion of households headed by a married couple has been decreasing through time — it was 74 per cent in 1971 , 70 per cent in 1981 , and is expected to be only about 55 per cent in 2001 in England and Wales ( Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 14 | The gamma dose rate proved to be only about 20 per cent — reasonably typical for clay materials . |
| 15 | Tape measures with centimetres and inches on the SAME side ( I 'm still not 100 per cent into centimetres ! ) and a metre stick . |
| 16 | We expect the level of running costs of the Trident force to be well below 2 per cent . |
| 17 | I have made it clear that the cost of running a Trident deterrent will be well below 2 per cent . |
| 18 | Sales , on a like-for-like basis , were down nearly 10 per cent , with operating losses of £5.2m . |
| 19 | ICI 's results looked worse still after taking into account its restructuring and disposals ; indicating that underlying profits were down almost 30 per cent . |
| 20 | But turnover in the smaller service division fell 8 per cent and profits were down almost 30 per cent to £6.18 million , reflecting more sluggish demand for spares and service . |
| 21 | In the event , tourist arrivals in January-March 1991 were down only 3 per cent compared with the same period in 1990 . |
| 22 | According to an index of advanced bookings , European hotel bookings for April were up nearly 34 per cent on the same month last year . |
| 23 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
| 24 | Output in cars , engineering and clothing is down nearly 12 per cent , says a Labour survey . |
| 25 | The British Association of Removers , which represents 750 removal companies across the country , believes housemoving business is down about 40 per cent . |
| 26 | The British Association of Removers , which represents 750 removal companies across the country , believes housemoving business is down about 40 per cent . |
| 27 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 28 | increase for school buildings next year is a good outcome , given that the level of inflation is only about 4 per cent . |
| 29 | For now the geologists ' definition is sufficient : the tectonic Pacific is a body that is only about 70 per cent of the area of the conventionally accepted Ocean , and omits the coasts of all the South American and most of the South-East-Asian countries . |
| 30 | He recalls that a petrol engine is only about 20 per cent efficient ; most of the energy of its fuel appears as heat in its radiator and exhaust . |