Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | They I think they got about twenty per cent bigger . |
| 2 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 3 | They made up 16 per cent of conversion students but only 4 per cent of those studying on specialist IT courses . |
| 4 | In 1983 temporary workers not in special schemes made up 5.5 per cent of the total labour force not in special schemes ; in 1986 they made up 5.6 per cent [ see Table 1.13 ] . |
| 5 | They are also disproportionately represented amongst a particular category of temporary workers , namely those working on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis , where they make up 64 per cent of the total , and amongst agency workers , where they account for 63 per cent of the total . |
| 6 | Many conscripts — they make up 65 per cent of the armed forces — receive only the most basic training . |
| 7 | Over the last three months they rose only 0.5 per cent by value on the previous three months , but still some 12 per cent more than the same period in 1988 . |
| 8 | They occupy about 50 per cent of all hospital beds . |
| 9 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 10 | Together they provide about 60 per cent of the housing for single people and almost a quarter of all wheelchair access dwellings . |
| 11 | On most of the nationalisation stock ( paid to compensate former owners ) and earlier long-term borrowings they inherited at nationalisation ( much of it raised at the low interest rates of the 1930s ) they paid only 3 per cent . |
| 12 | Miliutin and other committed reformers had hoped to assign peasants the areas they were working already , but in the event they lost about 20 per cent of the land they had been using . |
| 13 | About one-fifth of the world 's people live in the developed world , yet they use about 85 per cent of all fertiliser for their own crops . |
| 14 | Although they contained only 30 per cent of the whole secondary-school population , they marshalled 10 per cent of all sixth formers — pupils , that is , voluntarily staying on to the age of eighteen . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the average wage-earner noted that , whereas in 1960 tax and insurance took 8 per cent of his or her earnings , in 1970 they took nearly 20 per cent . |
| 16 | They took only 35.7 per cent of seats on municipal councils , compared with 42.2 per cent for the centre-left opposition coalition of the Alliance of Free Democrats ( SzDSz ) and the League of Young Democrats ( FIDESz ) . |
| 17 | At Chemical they went up 61 per cent and at Chase Manhattan by 84 per cent . |
| 18 | They brew around 75 per cent of all beer , control a majority of tied pubs and dominate the ‘ free trade ’ through cheap loans and other backhanders . |
| 19 | The unemployed are currently only ( sic ) 14 per cent of the available labour force , but they constitute approximately 40 per cent of those convicted . |
| 20 | Thus we find that the Tories did best in the larger boroughs and in the counties , where they won over 90 per cent of the seats . |
| 21 | The comprehensive schools , in a perfectly adjusted system , should have had 20 per cent of their pupils in the top 20 per cent of the ability range : in fact , they had only 15 per cent and one-quarter of the schools had less than 5 per cent . |
| 22 | The analyst reckons they have about 4 per cent of the market . |
| 23 | In 1923 they controlled only 10 per cent of evening titles . |
| 24 | In 1983 , while girls gained 98 per cent of the ‘ O'-levels in domestic science , they gained only 5 per cent of those in technical drawing ; girls gained 75 per cent of the ‘ A'-level passes in French , but only 21 per cent of those in physics . |
| 25 | But they gained only 48.8 per cent of the votes cast . |
| 26 | Mars , Cadbury and Rowntree between them controlled about 80 per cent of the market , and so an addition of 2 or 3 per cent would be unlikely to affect the competitive position ( refer to Table 2.4 ) . |