Example sentences of "[adv] only [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gap must be narrowed between the rich countries of the world and the poorer countries where 70 per cent of the world 's people live on only 30 per cent of its income . |
| 2 | Although coronary disease was , and still is , the number one killer of American men , in any particular year it claims perhaps only 1 per cent of the male population . |
| 3 | Third , only a small proportion of those leaving the cities moved to new towns , perhaps only 10 per cent . |
| 4 | Even in the university centres , perhaps only 50 per cent of cases are notified , while reporting from private practitioners is non-existent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Employment has gone down only 11 per cent . |
| 7 | In the event , tourist arrivals in January-March 1991 were down only 3 per cent compared with the same period in 1990 . |
| 8 | In spite of the recession , reduced profits from property sales and a 50 per cent rise in interest charges to £3.5 million profit before exceptionals was down only 9 per cent to £22.1 million , of which £11.8 million came in the first half . |
| 9 | Forty per cent of the people live in only 6 per cent of the total area , and densities rise to 100 per square kilometre . |
| 10 | However , despite general agreement about the need for groupworkers to be supervised by university trained personnel , this occurs in only 30 per cent of services in Flanders ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | While Palermo ( 1973 ) , for example , found that four-to five-year-olds responded appropriately to more nearly all the time , but to less only 39 per cent of the time , an earlier study by Griffiths , Shantz and Sigel ( 1967 ) reported that children of that age understood both more and less almost equally well ( 70 per cent and 65 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Capacity utilisation for these five factories is thus only 44.2 per cent . |
| 13 | Statistically only 0–05 per cent of chance tetrads should come out at this length or less , so that the expected number of alignments like Craigeam lies between 0.00041 for standing stones and 0.0037 for stone circles . |
| 14 | Those under 17 years of age will not be eligible ; also very few women over the age of 65 ( possibly only 4 per cent ) and only 7 per cent of women in skilled and unskilled manual occupations have their own cars . |
| 15 | In fact when each rises by say , five per cent the total increase is still only five per cent . |
| 16 | But here in the UK it is still only 7 per cent . |
| 17 | At the other extreme , special educational needs — with only a third as many courses as social issues — accounted for slightly more teacher-days , although still only 11 per cent of the total time . |
| 18 | The amount of reclaimed glass used in manufacture doubled between 1983 and 1988 , but this is still only 16 per cent of the total . |
| 19 | This difference increased with the age of the youngest child in the family , so that by the time the latter had reached 11 years old still only 44 per cent of the mothers of disabled children were in paid work compared with 87 per cent of control group mothers . |
| 20 | Prisoners are male , and disproportionately young — a quarter of the prison population being under 21 , whereas 15–20-year-olds make up only 10 per cent of the British population . |
| 21 | On average , maintenance made up only 7 per cent of total income , with the mean amount being about £26 per family , or £16 per child per week . |
| 22 | The Americans came up with 22 per cent and the Japanese , who seem to manufacture all the latest gadgets , actually thought up only six per cent . |
| 23 | The first figures published by the Home Office ( Home Office 1986 ) indicated that of prisoners , 8 per cent of men and 12 per cent of women were Afro-Caribbean , yet these groups make up only 1 per cent and 2 per cent of the population in general ( see also Walker 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Interest and dividend income had fallen 11 per cent to £7.3 billion and other receipts , including the national business rates , had gone up only 1 per cent to £15.6 billion . |
| 25 | Accordingly , the 1992 pre-tax profits of £32.5 million were really up only 1 per cent on figures for 1991 which would otherwise have been shown as £32.2 million . |
| 26 | Stamp duties , which did fall on the luxury consumption of the better-off , made up only 13 per cent of indirect taxation in 1800 and less than half as much of total revenue . |
| 27 | Though whites make up only 17 per cent of the population , they control the most fertile farming areas . |
| 28 | The only flexibility in a local authority 's ability to raise finance will be the poll tax , which on current reckoning is intended to make up only 20 per cent of a local authority 's revenue base . |
| 29 | A survey carried out for the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that subsidised pauper wage-earners made up only 0.5 per cent of the female population in the sixteen areas investigated , though an 1898 report by a woman factory inspector in Glasgow had considered that a substantial amount of poor relief went in aid of wages . |
| 30 | Writing paper and personal cards make up only 29 per cent of the stationery market in France . |