Example sentences of "of [adv] [conj] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injection was the sole route of use of less than 4 per cent of the clients , but in combination with other methods ( smoking and sniffing ) , injection was used by one in ten of the users . |
| 2 | North Cornwall : key Cornish seat , where swing of less than five per cent would unseat Sir Gerry Neale , who helped to run Mrs Thatcher 's unsuccessful campaign to remain party leader . |
| 3 | Since Melanee wants a loan of less than 70 per cent of the value of her first home , she can have the pick of the first time buyer discounts . |
| 4 | A swing of less than one per cent would return the seat to the Labour column . |
| 5 | Mr Livsey faces challenges from both the Conservatives , who could take the seat on a swing of less than one per cent , and Labour who need only 2.8 per cent . |
| 6 | Eddie McGrady of the SDLP , who vanquished Mr Powell five years ago , could lose to the official Ulster Unionists on a swing of less than one per cent . |
| 7 | It is like the enormous energy of the sun 's radiation , of which a fraction of less than one per cent is absorbed by all the life-systems of the Earth . |
| 8 | But a swing of less than four per cent would win the seat for Liberal Democrat Nigel Jones . |
| 9 | But he probably received a pay rise of less than 10 per cent in 1988-89 . |
| 10 | A quarter received increases of less than 7 per cent . |
| 11 | Since 1985 profits growth in the division has been restricted to an average of less than 5 per cent a year and as 40 per cent of revenues come from the US the one third fall in the dollar over the period obviously affected the outcome as have rising R&D costs . |
| 12 | However , in that year , the scheme came close to disaster when nearly 20 per cent of the breed was found to be infected with brucellosis ( in comparison with a national rate of less than 5 per cent ) . |
| 13 | In Sweden , for instance , economy-wide bargaining arrangements are accompanied by a union density figure approaching 90 per cent , whereas the company or plant-level bargaining in the United States has a corresponding union membership density of less than 30 per cent . |
| 14 | For the first time since the war , the two major parties each received the votes of less than 30 per cent of the electorate . |
| 15 | Further questions which yielded a success rate of less than 50 per cent for the middle third of the pupils are now considered . |
| 16 | As a result of bargaining between these two main parties the PRI secured the preservation of the " governability " clauses which granted the party winning most votes in the legislative elections an absolute majority , even with a vote of less than 50 per cent ; the PAN ensured that the threshold at which these clauses became applicable was raised from 17 per cent to 35 per cent of the vote . |
| 17 | In the situation where the investor has spotted an asset with factor loadings of 0.71 and 0.82 which has a return of less than 12.9 per cent , an arbitrage portfolio may be created by short selling the overpriced asset and investing the proceeds in the above efficient portfolio . |
| 18 | While the second question produces a success rate of less than 20 per cent , typical for most questions shown so far , the first question does not . |
| 19 | Alternatively , the Lambeth offers an exceptional 2.25 per cent off for one year for loans of less than 60 per cent . |
| 20 | It can not live on timber with a moisture content of less than 25 per cent and thus is usually found in situations too damp for dry rot . |
| 21 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that Scotland 's contribution to the armed forces , including the TA , far exceeds its proportion of less than 9 per cent . |
| 22 | This fund would only benefit member countries with a per capita income of less than 90 per cent of the EC average ( i.e. Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain ) . |
| 23 | Western Pomerania had become almost entirely Germanised , and had a Polish population of less than 0.5 per cent . |
| 24 | Under Labour , the financial community would require a ‘ risk premium ’ to stay in sterling — possibly an increase in interest rates of more than two per cent . |
| 25 | A scheme to get the long-term unemployed back to work has achieved a success rate of more than fifty per cent . |
| 26 | The monthly bill for a repayment loan of £100,000 would cost £1,117.73 , an increase of more than 8 per cent after tax relief . |
| 27 | It is also hard to find a yardstick with which to compare the preservation of more than 99 per cent of information in 20 billion successive copyings . |
| 28 | Kennedy and Sugden ( 1986 , p. 34 ) refer to seven recent surveys carried out in Britain and the USA that ‘ confirmed an ever-increasing acceptance of these techniques by businesses , so that utilisation rates of more than 75 per cent amongst the surveyed firms are commonplace ’ . |
| 29 | The bones released from the scats as they decayed were washed down this gully , and this resulted in the separation of two distinct bone assemblages : the one remaining at the top of the hill consisted of about 60 per cent dental and jaw fragments while the one washing down the hill consisted of more than 70 per cent vertebrae . |
| 30 | In the course of that war , Major became more popular than Churchill , winning the approval of more than 70 per cent of the public . |