Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers in these latter two sectors spoke of topping up their regular staff levels by perhaps some 10 per cent to cope with the Christmas peak . |
| 2 | About two-thirds of the articles were Realist , with only some 10 per cent falling into a ‘ structuralist ’ ( or , as they called it , ‘ dialectical ’ ) category . |
| 3 | Moreover , many of the more able pupils were leaking out of the system : even of the most able 10 per cent , two out of five had left before attaining their sixteenth birthday . |
| 4 | They set up a satellite link with Tokyo and announced that they would charge only 5 per cent buyer 's premium instead of the now customary 10 per cent . |
| 5 | The proportion of marketable wealth owned by the most wealthy 10 per cent of the population of fell from 65 per cent in 1971 to 54 per cent in 1979 , but there was no change at all between 1979 and 1985 . |
| 6 | Even by 1930 , 46 per cent of the active population was still directly involved in agriculture , and at least another 10 per cent in essentially rural industries . |
| 7 | And yet another 10 per cent of stars are white dwarfs , dim stars the size of Earth and all invisible to the naked eye . |