Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between November 1978 and November 1986 , short-term replacement rates have fallen ; for example , whereas 65 per cent of claimants had an income below 80 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , this had risen to 87 per cent of claimants in 1986 . |
| 2 | It is perfectly feasible for manufacturers to package their goods in recycled paper without loss of appeal or quality , yet at present only 27 per cent of the paper we consume is recycled , and less than 20 per cent of household newspapers and magazines are recovered . |
| 3 | In some courts applications were successful in 96 per cent of cases ; in other courts only 9 per cent were successful . |
| 4 | Among those on income support only 22 per cent were receiving any maintenance , which represents a substantial fall since 1979 , when half of lone parents on supplementary benefit were receiving some maintenance . |
| 5 | Thus about 48 percent of the Pakistani/Bangladeshi group are aged 0–15 compared to 20 percent in the white population , and at the other end of the age spectrum only 2 per cent are aged over 60 compared to 21 per cent among the white population ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | Pluto appeared tiny right from the start ; it is now known to have a mass only 0.2 per cent that of Earth , far too small to have caused the irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune attributed to Planet X. A dedicated group of astronomers have maintained that a tenth planet is required . |
| 7 | In contrast only 15 per cent of all other GP referrals ( and 12 per cent of other female referrals ) were not admitted , while over half were sectioned . |
| 8 | The 1987 joint programme of the ruling Social Democrats ( SPÖ ) and Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) [ see p. 35088 ] had set a target of keeping the 1991 deficit below 3 per cent . |
| 9 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |
| 10 | But of the winners only 2 per cent are shown to be better off by £2 a week , whereas 39 per cent of losers will be asked to pay a local poll tax that is more than £2 above their then current rate contribution ( Poll Tax Facts , no. 9 , Local Government Information Unit , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | In Leicestershire only 22 per cent of taxpayers overall were classed as wage earners , compared with 37 per cent in Rutland next door . |
| 12 | As a result only 5 per cent of intended affordable housing satisfied affordability criteria for a local community where 75 per cent earn less than £10,000 per annum ( National Audit Office , 1988 ; House of Commons Employment Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | The most dismal performance is by Pravda , the official party paper , of whose regular readers only 36 per cent had renewed their subscriptions . |
| 14 | In the initial review about 70 per cent of the LEAs responded with information , as did nearly all GCE and CSE Boards , the City and Guilds and the RSA . |
| 15 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 16 | For snorting up your nose you want cocaine about twenty per cent . |
| 17 | Does the Chancellor recognise that his optimism about 2.25 per cent . |
| 18 | The Eurotrack 100 yields about 3.1 per cent , which exceeds the current yield of the trust 's portfolio . |
| 19 | However , figures from market researchers Verdict suggest that in 1988 , Comet had 7.6 per cent of the market , Lasky 's — since bought by Kingfisher — 1.2 per cent and Dixons almost 18 per cent . |
| 20 | In the past 12 months alone , burglaries are down almost 8 per cent , car crime around 50 per cent . |
| 21 | During the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries over 60 per cent of the parish churches in England were extensively rebuilt , normally in the magnificent Perpendicular style of Gothic architecture first employed in the construction of Gloucester Cathedral during the thirteenth century . |
| 22 | As she looked around she felt a twinge of sadness that in a carriage where 70 per cent of the commuters were men there were five women forced to stand in the aisle . |
| 23 | In France the figure for local revenue is 8 per cent , but in federal nations like Canada and Switzerland it is well over 40 per cent , in the former West Germany and the United States over 30 per cent , and in Sweden over 25 per cent . |
| 24 | Later amendments made remittances over 12 per cent of registered capital subject to heavy taxes . |
| 25 | For entries over 20 per cent above the index figure actually shown , another point will be added , up to a maximum of ten points . |
| 26 | The formula for calculating the tension of an open-wound string is likely to give a figure over 10 per cent too high because the theory behind it does not consider the deviation of the winding wire from a circular cross-section as it is bent around the core . |
| 27 | Under the Chancellor 's proposals , the reserves will be redesignated as tax deductible reserves where 50 per cent of profits from underwriting business may be deposited tax free . |
| 28 | At present approximately 50 per cent of the SSL 's purchase grant is spent on periodicals ; this proportion will rise annually as prices increase without a matching increase in the purchase grant . |
| 29 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
| 30 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |