Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment continued to fall and was constantly below one per cent in 1961–6 . |
| 2 | At first , registration of births was only about 95 per cent complete . |
| 3 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 4 | Although their population was only about 5 per cent of the total of rural Wales , some districts fared relatively worse than others , particularly in Powys ( Brecknock , Montgomery and Radnor ) and parts of West Wales ( Preseli and south Pembrokeshire ) . |
| 5 | In France , Italy and the USA , the decline was only about 2 per cent . |
| 6 | Its share of ‘ small systems ’ was only about 15 per cent , but due to grow . |
| 7 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 8 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |
| 9 | Voter turnout was only around 42 per cent , however . |
| 10 | At £2,077 million it was just over 26 per cent up on April , and 52 per cent up on the corresponding month in 1992 . |
| 11 | In 1424–25 its share of these was just over 46 per cent of the national total , in 1474–75 ( though perhaps exaggerated by the absence of the Bristol and Newcastle returns ) nearly 72 per cent and in 1524–25 81.75 per cent . |
| 12 | This was just over 50 per cent above February 1990 , and five per cent more than in January . |
| 13 | For comparison , the figure for the USA in 1970 in terms of net output was just under 35 per cent [ Hannah and Kay , 1977 ; Hart and Clarke , 1980 ] . |
| 14 | The turnout was just under 50 per cent . |
| 15 | The average expectation of interest rates under the Tories was just below 10 per cent , while under Labour rates are expected to rise to 11.6 per cent . |
| 16 | Between 1932 and 1939 when the bank rate was 2 per cent , a building society 's advance was normally around 80 per cent of the value of the house spread over fifteen to twenty years at 4 to 6 per cent interest . |
| 17 | But the industry 's share of total Scottish manufacturing employment was still nearly 13 per cent . |
| 18 | Despite inflation and Schiller 's resignation , West Germany 's economic performance was far better than her Western partners , and growth was still over 3 per cent . |
| 19 | But underlying growth in profits was probably about 30 per cent . |
| 20 | It was also over 50 per cent more than that laid down in codes for the relief of famine as a basic subsistence diet ( Kynch 1989 ) . |
| 21 | Polls in 1963 confirmed that in American eyes Britain was still the most dependable ally , but Gallup in July also recorded that West Germany ( 58 per cent ) was now only 5 per cent behind Britain . |
| 22 | But , as table 4. 1 shows , by the early 1980s the railways ' share of passenger traffic was well below 10 per cent in both countries , their share of freight traffic not that much higher . |
| 23 | When it was introduced in September of last year , the rate of inflation was almost twice 5.5 per cent . |
| 24 | The month-on-month inflation rate was currently over 20 per cent . |
| 25 | There was general agreement that no new money could easily be found for heavily indebted African or South American countries at present ; meanwhile United States delegates told the conference that US monetary policy would be kept tight in order to combat inflation , which was currently around 4.5 per cent . |
| 26 | The most significant restriction was that only 15 per cent of profits made in Romanian currency could be transferred abroad in hard currency . |