Example sentences of "is only [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 2 | increase for school buildings next year is a good outcome , given that the level of inflation is only about 4 per cent . |
| 3 | For now the geologists ' definition is sufficient : the tectonic Pacific is a body that is only about 70 per cent of the area of the conventionally accepted Ocean , and omits the coasts of all the South American and most of the South-East-Asian countries . |
| 4 | He recalls that a petrol engine is only about 20 per cent efficient ; most of the energy of its fuel appears as heat in its radiator and exhaust . |
| 5 | The manufacturing base , which is already nearing the limits of viability — it is only about 20 per cent . |
| 6 | In young male fiddler crabs the large claw is only about 2 per cent of the weight of the rest of the body , but among adults the large claw may eventually reach 70 per cent of the body weight ( above ) . |