Example sentences of "[unc] of [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The favours , in lieu of favours given |
| 2 | Although such figures might create public alarm , the main reason given for non-reporting was because the offence was considered too trivial to waste police time ( 38 per cent of reasons given ) , or that the police could do nothing about it ( 16 per cent ) . |
| 3 | Many situations can not be handled on the basis of ‘ A per cent of records give rise to B per cent of accesses ’ . |
| 4 | Only three per cent of employers give any sort of help for childcare and I ca n't really see that increasing ’ . |
| 5 | After 12 weeks of using the Nicorette Patch , 41 per cent of smokers gave up compared with only 10 per cent who used a dummy patch . |
| 6 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 7 | Up to about 10 per cent of tin gives an alloy that is red to gold in colour and ductile enough for easy shaping by hammering , provided that the alloy is annealed ( heated to remove internal stresses ) . |
| 8 | For " one million " per cent of pupils gave the answer 10,000 and a further 13 per cent gave 100,000 . |
| 9 | A further 14 per cent of pupils gave answers suggesting that they thought that the left hand end of the line represented either 0 or I. Whether this is due to a conceptual difficulty or a casual approach was not established . |
| 10 | Around 10 per cent of pupils gave responses of the form 0.4 = |
| 11 | More than 40 per cent of men give their cars a once-a-fortnight wash , compared to 22 per cent of women . |