Example sentences of "[be] [adv] 30 per [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are nearly 30 per cent more public payphones and now , at any one time , 96 per cent of them actually work ! |
| 2 | American Coal Enterprises say its steam loco will be 15 per cent efficient ( modern diesels are about 30 per cent ) . |
| 3 | Through the 1980s , there was an extended period when school rolls fell back and there are now 30 per cent fewer pupils now than there were . |
| 4 | Their cut will be around 30 per cent of the ‘ dealer ’ price , which is what the shops pay for your record , bearing in mind that your record will only reach the shops if the dealer asks for it . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the government admitted that most people would be around 30 per cent worse off in real terms . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the college said levels were about 30 per cent above the comparable period last year , but this was not exceptional . |
| 7 | A spokesman for the college said levels were about 30 per cent above the comparable period last year , but this was not exceptional . |
| 8 | Though Brazil 's massive debt of about $115 billion is only 30 per cent of GNP , its debt service ratio is over 50 per cent . |
| 9 | In 70–80 per cent of all streets in the town , the amount of time spent by the car driver is under 30 per cent of that of the total time spent by all other people on the street . |
| 10 | The clear-up rate is about 30 per cent . |
| 11 | Many subjects are still examined by a single pass-or-fail hurdle at the end of a two-year course , and the failure rate is around 30 per cent . |
| 12 | The NERC announced on Nov. 2 that recent shipboard experiments had revealed that the proportion of CO2 emissions being absorbed by the oceans was only 30 per cent , not 50 per cent as previously estimated . |
| 13 | By 1885 the area under wheat was already 30 per cent smaller than it had been in the previous decade . |
| 14 | The Zimbabwe dollar fell by 47 per cent against the dollar in 1991 and the annual inflation rate was about 30 per cent . |
| 15 | The turnout was around 30 per cent in each round considered to reflect in part electors ' preoccupation with the Gulf war . |
| 16 | Furthermore , energy was over 30 per cent cheaper in the South than in the northeast in 1980 , according to Agnew ( 1987b , p. 174 ) , who draws on Bensel 's ( 1984 ) work , which combines the energy and unionization advantages of the South , to illustrate the growing gap in growth rates over the post-war decades between , on the one hand , the energy-rich/right-to-work States and , on the other , the energy-disadvantaged ( high cost , mostly imported ) and heavily-unionized . |