Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 This has not changed : in 1972 , people in the bottom 80 per cent of the wealth distribution owned only 10 per cent of realizable assets .
2 The liquidity squeeze ( predicted to affect only 10 per cent of the population directly ) immediately limited withdrawals from interest-bearing money-market accounts ( estimated to total $70,000 million ) to 20 per cent and those from private savings and current accounts to no more than approximately $1,000 .
3 Light , insulating , economical puffed-wood structures , using only 10 per cent by weight of the wood previously needed , will spring up everywhere .
4 Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent .
5 Although Australia possessed some 30 per cent of the world 's known uranium , it provided only 10 per cent of output , largely because of the left 's traditional hostility to the nuclear industry .
6 The legislation covered property illegally seized after Feb. 25 , 1948 , representing about 10 per cent of property in Czechoslovakia and worth an estimated total of 300,000 million koruna , of which about kcs60,000 million would be paid out as cash or bonds and the remainder as real estate ( US$1.00=kcs26.4234 as at Feb. 18 , 1991 ) .
7 It is due on stream in 1995 and is expected to meet about 10 per cent of Pakistan 's total current gas consumption .
8 Ershad 's Jatiya Party won over 10 per cent of the seats , including that won by Ershad himself ( who was under arrest and facing serious corruption charges ) in his home district of Rangpur .
9 A study by the International Forest Science Consultancy has shown that log-exporting countries typically receive only 10 per cent of the total value of the processed timber .
10 This means that , if trains took coal from a mine 10 kilometres up a branch line to a power station 100 km away , the model would expect only 10 per cent of the revenue to be lost if the branch line were closed .
11 Government departments were ordered to set aside 10 per cent of their budget to be released only with presidential approval ; spending on all non-infrastructure projects , except schools , hospitals and disaster relief , would be deferred .
12 ( Coal loses about 10 per cent of its potential energy in the conversion , but this is balanced by the reduction in pollutants produced during burning . )
13 Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) .
14 But the study showed over 10 per cent of GPs were prescribing oestrogen only .
15 For instance , α-granule fibrinogen forms approximately 10 per cent of the total platelet protein ( Holmsen & Weiss , 1979 ) .
16 The Act also allows President Ramos to negotiate contracts to build new power plants , bypassing the public bidding process , and requires state-owned casinos to give up 10 per cent of their profits over the next five years to the National Power Corporation .
17 Sugar was the third most important export after tobacco and tea , providing about 10 per cent of export earnings .
18 Together , they will generate approximately 1,000 megawatts of power — providing about 10 per cent of the country 's electricity needs , enough in itself to supply a city the size of Amsterdam .
19 But nuclear industry officials doubt the prospects of emission targets being achieved if the present review leads to early retirement of older Magnox stations , providing about 10 per cent of electricity in England and Wales , to accommodate a more concentrated mix of coal and gas stations .
20 In a confidential report he reviewed the properties of steels containing upward of 5 per cent chromium , and concluded that steels containing over 10 per cent chromium should be investigated .
21 Full-time married women workers formed about 10 per cent of the labour force between 1911 and the outbreak of World War II , and the experience of these women will be considered in Part II .
22 The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt .
23 The annual report of the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) , released on Dec. 19 , showed that poor countries spent an average 12 per cent of their budgets on health and education , while rich countries allocated only 10 per cent of their aid to these sectors in the developing world .
24 Certainly , the Palestinian Arabs can reflect that when Roberts drew Jerusalem , the Jewish population of the land can have numbered scarcely 10 per cent of the total .
25 ‘ They were losing about 10 per cent of their profit by not claiming back the tax , and no Japanese businessman does that . ’
26 This increased to 22.1 per cent in 1974 and subsequently never fell below 10 per cent in that decade .
27 The report alleges that mining and smelting use up 10 per cent of all energy consumed each year .
28 Levels of lending , in which property companies represented about 10 per cent of total loan exposure to UK residents , did not present a ‘ major ’ supervisory anxiety , he said .
29 Under the scheme , successful claimants would pay about 10 per cent of their winnings to a central fund which would meet the costs of unsuccessful claims .
30 Cheney announced on Feb. 23 , 1990 , during a tour of Japan and the Far East , that the USA intended to withdraw about 10 per cent of the 120,000 US troops currently stationed in Japan , the Philippines and South Korea , over a three-year period starting in 1990 .
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