Example sentences of "[adv] than 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago lager accounted for less than 10 per cent of total beer sales . |
| 2 | The movement cost less than 10 per cent of the price quoted by the British firm and this included all import duties and delivery charges , and VAT . |
| 3 | ‘ My initial inquiries suggest that a figure of significantly less than 10 per cent is a real possibility , ’ Mr Pulman said . |
| 4 | But he probably received a pay rise of less than 10 per cent in 1988-89 . |
| 5 | Less than 10 per cent has been excavated . |
| 6 | The number of policewomen in each section varies , although there is always a minimum of one , which is low because women constitute less than 10 per cent of the regular force ( Brewer et al . |
| 7 | The economy continued to lapse into decline , with manufacturing output having fallen by no less than 10 per cent in the past twelve months . |
| 8 | Normally , we do n't pay less than 10 per cent to an artist . |
| 9 | Research shows that less than 10 per cent of listeners to Radio 1 are regular record buyers , so it would be unrepresentative of our audience 's taste to be ruled by the movements of the singles ' chart . |
| 10 | Cable & Wireless finance director , Mr Rod Olsen , said the size of the stake being discussed was ‘ not less than 10 per cent and not more than 20 per cent ’ which would cost CITIC between £375million and £750 million . |
| 11 | Nowadays , less than 10 per cent of its worldwide expenditure on conservation is directed solely on species protection . |
| 12 | Lone parents themselves are likely to be over 25 years of age — on average less than 10 per cent were younger . |
| 13 | Before the 1940s over 50 per cent of Bartholin 's gland infections were gonococcal in origin compared with less than 10 per cent today . |
| 14 | Sales to the UK market continued to fall — half of companies reported a decrease and less than 10 per cent of companies reported an increase . |
| 15 | In some Partnerships , voluntary-sector funding amounted to less than 10 per cent of total Urban Programme expenditure . |
| 16 | But solid coffins represent less than 10 per cent of the Coop 's business . |
| 17 | In 1990 the World Health Organisation 's ( WHO ) guidelines suggested that only 15–20 per cent of our food energy intake should be derived from fat , with saturated fats contributing less than 10 per cent . |
| 18 | The manager and chairman are such strangers to national television that probably less than 10 per cent of football fans would be able to name them , let alone recognise them . |
| 19 | Government participation in economic life was relatively small — the percentage of GNP taken by the government at the turn of the century being less than 10 per cent ; and the creation of wealth was carried out very largely by private enterprise . |
| 20 | Between 1979 and 1989 those at the highest decile ( ie those earning more than 90 per cent and less than 10 per cent of the population ) increased their real income by 36.6 per cent whereas those at the lowest decile ( ie those earning more than 10 per cent and less than 90 per cent of the population ) who increased their real income by only 5.7 per cent . |
| 21 | Thus , if the corporations in their study were divided into three groups depending on the size of their annual sales , then they calculated that those with sales over $1 billion constituted 42 per cent of all corporations but committed nearly three-quarters of not only all violations but all serious violations , whereas those small firms with sales with less than half a billion dollars constituted nearly one-third of firms analysed but only committed less than 10 per cent of all violations . |
| 22 | The early evening audience gap between BBC1 and ITV fell from 20 per cent to less than 10 per cent . |
| 23 | If the proposed change in parvalues was less than 10 per cent , then prior approval of the IMF was not required . |
| 24 | In terms of personal care less than 10 per cent have problems bathing , washing or feeding ; however , almost one-third , 29 per cent , have problems cutting their toenails . |
| 25 | Of the instrumental daily living activities jobs involving cleaning pose problems for about 20 per cent , while cooking is a problem for less than 10 per cent . |
| 26 | A member who made less than 10 per cent of the average number of dealings in the year immediately preceding the general meeting may not exercise his voting right . |
| 27 | We wished to compare those living in the same areas ( as we did for arrest rates ) and decided to exclude areas with less than 10 per cent . |
| 28 | The analysis of arrest rates ( males aged 11–35 ) showed that in the whole city , Blacks had higher rates than Whites , but when the areas were grouped into those with less than 10 per cent . |
| 29 | Cohen 's estimate of the hemisphere difference in icon persistence was 23 msec. which is less than 10 per cent of the duration of the shortest delay interval used by Marzi et al . |
| 30 | Less than 10 per cent of the housing stock in rural England and Wales consisted of council houses , despite all the attempts at pump-priming which had been carried out from Whitehall . |