Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a similar lack of relationship between age and receipt of an occupational pension in the elderly married couple household group , where 74 per cent of those in the highest quartile had occupational pensions and the mean age of the older partner was 72 , while only 27 per cent of those in the lowest quartile had occupational pensions and the mean age of the oldest partner was 73 . |
| 2 | This applied particularly to Supplementary Benefit , where 79 per cent of eligible elderly people claimed , compared with 86 per cent of the non-elderly . |
| 3 | For example , if an index-linked gilt offers a 2 per cent coupon , C r , and the relevant rate of inflation , IR ( this is covered in more detail below ) , is 5.5 per cent then the nominal coupon , C n , will be : or 8.1375 per cent ; i. e. a payment of 8.1375 per unit held . |
| 4 | Increasing numbers of women went to cheap matinees at the cinema during the inter-war years , where 70 per cent of the weekly audiences in London comprised women and girls , and by 1939 the number of wirelesses had increased from 200,000 in 1923 to over 8.5 million . |
| 5 | The regime 's opponents criticized this as inappropriate for a country where 70 per cent of the people lived in abject poverty and where less than 15 per cent of the 12,000,000 inhabitants were Catholic . |
| 6 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
| 7 | The figures showed that the jobless total for January had reached more than 7,700,000 or 6.2 per cent of the workforce , up from 6.1 per cent the previous month , with an increase of 230,000 in unemployment outside the farming sector . |
| 8 | By the end of February unemployment in the eastern Länder had risen to 786,992 or 8.9 per cent of the workforce [ for September 1990 figures see p. 37761 ] . |
| 9 | The DAX index of West Germany 's 30 leading shares surged 33.73 points , or 2.3 per cent , to 1,496.69 in one of the strongest daily peformances in recent months . |
| 10 | In Tayside 's first interim report , he says : ‘ Crime has continued to rise in Tayside , and crimes of violence against the person , indecency , dishonesty , fire raising and drugs offences show an increase of 7,376 or 17.2 per cent over the 1990 figures . ’ |
| 11 | During the last three months of the year some 500,000 jobs were lost , and by December overall unemployment had risen to 7,600,000 , or 6.1 per cent of the labour force , the highest level for three years . |
| 12 | There is also a lack of ready access and there are poor transport links , for a community where 68.4 per cent have no car . |
| 13 | The earliest comprehensive statistics , which were compiled in the 1860s , indicated that about seven or eight per cent of the population were accused of some criminal offence each year . |
| 14 | The IMF 's Annual Report published on Sept. 12 revealed that the total debt of developing countries was almost unchanged at $1,235,000 million , or 32 per cent of total gross domestic product . |
| 15 | It put the total debt of developing countries at US$1,235,000 million ( or 32 per cent of aggregate GDP ) . |
| 16 | By 1861 the edge tool and other metal trades employed 253 men , or 32 per cent of the workforce . |
| 17 | Capital spending on schools has been cut by £190 million or 32 per cent since 1979 . |
| 18 | The defence budget amounted to 35,062 million koruna in 1989 and was expected to amount to 31,180 million koruna in 1990 , or 23.6 per cent of overall government expenditure . |
| 19 | OK , give it ten years and perhaps only 20 per cent will be producing what 60 per cent or 70 per cent were twenty-five years ago . |
| 20 | Currently , the with-profits fund is invested only about 50 per cent in equities , compared with 65 or 70 per cent of the stronger life offices . |
| 21 | Hoffman LaRoche was praised as ‘ a highly competent organization with a product range of high quality ’ , but its enormous profits , sometimes as high as 60 or 70 per cent on capital employed , were held to be unjustified and the MMC recommended that the price of both Librium and Valium be halved . |
| 22 | Britain is full of small business people who are breathing a sigh of relief that their business rate is limited to an increase in the retail prices index rather than the 60 or 70 per cent . |
| 23 | I emerged from that meeting , like everyone else , covered in the smell and stains of tobacco smoke because 60 or 70 per cent . |
| 24 | It should be their automatic policy from tonight that anyone in receipt of income support or low incomes equivalent to income support — and , say , 50 , 60 or 70 per cent . |
| 25 | In Japan , the United States , France and Germany the number of unpaid family workers fell by nearly 12 million , or 70 per cent . |
| 26 | IN 1990 , 87,555 women married between the ages of 20 and 24 , and 71,489 — or 81.6 per cent — divorced after marrying at this age . |
| 27 | It follows from the foregoing considerations that part ( a ) of question ( 2 ) in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) must be answered in the affirmative : it is contrary to Community law for a member state to stipulate as a requirement for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the owners and operators of the vessel , whether they be natural or legal persons , or 75 per cent . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) ( a ) It is contrary to Community law for a member state to stipulate as a requirement for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the owners and operators of the vessel , whether they be natural or legal persons , or 75 per cent . |
| 29 | The maximum loan is 90 per cent of property value on mortgages or 75 per cent on remortgages up to a maximum of £150,000 . |
| 30 | Sea trade made up 95 per cent of international trade relations in 1989 , with tankers shipping 1,730 million tonnes , or 6.9 per cent more than 1988 , and dry cargo at 2,210 million tonnes , up 4.4 per cent . |