Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be stressed , however , that — while the outlines of human activities are clear — there are still many uncertainties : for instance , we know that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has risen about 9 per cent since 1959 . |
| 2 | of national product ; since 1979 , it has averaged not 6 per cent . |
| 3 | Suppose that an individual has to put up 100 per cent margin ( i.e. has to pay the full amount of the investment Pf from the start ) but that this can be invested at the riskless rate r . |
| 4 | In six tests for the Wallabies since the World Cup final his success ratio has dipped below 50 per cent . |
| 5 | The amount of taxpayers ' cash that goes into paying top managers has gone up 900 PER CENT from £25 million in 1987 to £251 million last year . |
| 6 | All that shows beyond reasonable doubt that eggs were not responsible for the increase in food poisoning , which has gone up 36 per cent this year , despite an overall 24 per cent drop in egg consumption and the 700,000 birds slaughtered . |
| 7 | Whenever the yield has gone below 4 per cent before , it has been time to get out of the door and sell equities . ’ |
| 8 | Under the new scheme this group of claimants gain a weekly benefit valued at £27.40 but from this the claimant has to pay both 20 per cent of his or her rates bill and , similarly , 20 per cent of the water rates bill . |
| 9 | The result is that the rate of labour-force participation by women in Latin America has hovered around 20 per cent and remained fairly stable for over twenty years ( ECLA 1975 ) . |
| 10 | Buckinghamshire county council has to stump up 3.8 per cent . |
| 11 | These trees were managed to provide poles for the hop industry , but hop-growing is in decline in Sussex , the area of hops having fallen over 40 per cent . |
| 12 | It is not fair , perhaps , that with 23 per cent of the vote the Alliance should have won only 3 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons . |
| 13 | However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change . |
| 14 | As a minority shareholding interest in an unquoted company , his shares would have attracted only 30 per cent relief , leaving £21,000 ( £30,000 — £9,000 ) for inclusion in his estate for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 15 | Mineral revenues would have to finance nearly 20 per cent of recurrent expenditure , which Mogae described as " a disturbing trend indicating our dependence on the mineral sector " . |
| 16 | Certainly , the Palestinian Arabs can reflect that when Roberts drew Jerusalem , the Jewish population of the land can have numbered scarcely 10 per cent of the total . |
| 17 | Mr Ashdown , too , must face a bleak future , having scored only 18 per cent of the vote against 22.5 per cent for the Alliance after what was called a disastrous campaign in 1987 . |
| 18 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 19 | Er November automatic , should have gone up eight per cent automatic . |
| 20 | er that should have gone up eight per cent . |
| 21 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 22 | Blackpool , who offered just £2,000 against City 's valuation of £70,000 , will also have to hand over 25 per cent of any profit on a subsequent transfer . |
| 23 | SG Warburgs expect manufacturing output to have fallen about 0.5 per cent on the month . |
| 24 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
| 25 | He had received over 80 per cent . |
| 26 | The measured unemployment rate for the advanced capitalist countries had fallen below 3 per cent . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |