Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , figures from market researchers Verdict suggest that in 1988 , Comet had 7.6 per cent of the market , Lasky 's — since bought by Kingfisher — 1.2 per cent and Dixons almost 18 per cent . |
| 2 | Belgium , Denmark , France , Ireland and Italy all have growth rates of over 1 per cent. , Spain , Portugal and Holland over 2 per cent. , and Germany and Luxembourg over 3 per cent . |
| 3 | The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness . |
| 4 | By the second half of the 1980s , total spending on African education had exceeded that for whites for the first time , though Africans make up 70 per cent of the population and whites only 17 per cent . |
| 5 | It has a permanent stock of about 10,000 pipes of wines and ships about fifty per cent of the island 's wine exports . |
| 6 | At Wigston ( also Leicestershire ) in the early sixteenth century peas and beans were even more important at 49 1/2 per cent , barley represented 43 1/2 per cent and wheat only 6 per cent . |