Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , capital inflows have averaged 31 per cent of the trade and commerce flows of the UK ; in 1979 and 1986 however , they were over 50 per cent . |
| 2 | They were down 15 per cent on March last year . |
| 3 | In the statistical period , 1978–81 , losses continued to be greatest in Scotland , the North and Wales ; they were only 4 per cent in Yorkshire and 2 per cent in the East Midlands . |
| 4 | The sales of the largest 100 US firms were nearly double the sales of the largest 100 non-US firm in 1962 ; in 1972 they were only 40 per cent more . |
| 5 | But we was all in and they was er they was n't fifty per cent organized anyway near . |