Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is general agreement that Chlamydia trachomatis is the pathogen responsible for a high percentage of cases of NSU , but the best isolation rates still remain below 70 per cent of cases and are more usually in the region of 40 to 50 per cent . |
| 2 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 3 | However Mr Olsen made it clear that the company had no intention of allowing its stake to fall below 50 per cent . |
| 4 | This has not changed : in 1972 , people in the bottom 80 per cent of the wealth distribution owned only 10 per cent of realizable assets . |
| 5 | They noted too that Scotland contributed fully to the costs of all network programmes while seeing only 94 per cent of them , and paid a full share for network radio despite patchy reception in some areas . |
| 6 | Consumer goods manufacturers averaged only 12.5 per cent . |
| 7 | During the period of rebuilding the economy after World War Two , the growth rate averaged only 1.4 per cent . |
| 8 | If they had done so , the economy would have retained a much fuller utilization of capacity , which in turn would have increased the companies ' profits ( from 1957 to 1963 the capacity utilization rate in manufacturing averaged only 80.5 per cent , nearly 12 per cent less than the peak achieved in 1966 ) . |
| 9 | By 1989/90 the Exchequer met only 43.4 per cent , with a further 4 per cent coming from a central grant that reimbursed authorities for part of the rate rebates that they gave to poor households . |
| 10 | Although at present nuclear power generation contributes only 0.1 per cent of the total global radiation dose commitment , much public concern has been expressed on the potential local and regional effects of accidental releases of radioactive material . |
| 11 | The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Planting Survey shows that the variety contributes only 2.5 per cent of total area of Barley under cultivation in the Eastern Counties ( down from 6 per cent in 1990 ) , 0.5 per cent in the South and South West ( down from 0.8 per cent ) and 0.5 per cent in the Midlands down from 1.4 per cent . |
| 12 | Twelve months later they could cover only 18 per cent . |
| 13 | But to begin with it will cover only 70 per cent of the country , excluding large chunks of the south coast where the cost of air time is highest and the pressure for competition greatest . |
| 14 | In his report to the 65th session of the IMO Council meeting on Nov. 5-9 , he said that the organization had so far received only 63 per cent of the contributions due for 1990 — the lowest figure for many years . |
| 15 | Since this represents only one per cent of projected capacity , it will not be of significant help in meeting concern over weapons production . |
| 16 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 17 | The 1970 total represents only 2½ per cent of OECD GDP , a slightly smaller proportion than in 1958 . |
| 18 | The post office has a monopoly only on the delivery of letters and parcels weighing less than a kilogram — a decling trade and one that now represents only 40 per cent of total earnings although attempts to stop the drift by creating , for example , specialised services for direct marketing have been very successful . |
| 19 | The NOP poll , taken late last month on a sample of 1,000 , including only 27 per cent of parents , showed 80 per cent of people already believe an effective education system is the key to economic success . |
| 20 | of the country 's population is in its area it receives only 1 per cent . |
| 21 | However , the dependent wife receives only 60 per cent of the single person 's pension — a fact that reflects not only the dependent status of married women but also the failure of the social security system to adapt to the increase in economic activity ( particularly in part-time jobs ) among women since the Beveridge scheme was introduced . |
| 22 | Joseph Rothschild points out that in the inter-war period , the whole of Eastern Europe , excluding Russia , produced only eight per cent of European industrial production and that a third of that came from Czechoslovakia . |
| 23 | In 1984 it produced only 3.1 per cent of GNP . |
| 24 | The in-betweens , a group of five fields ( Cumberland , Durham , Derbyshire , Lancashire — or Northwest — and Northumberland ) which provided the 55 per cent vote at each of the first two ballots but on average produced only 42 per cent support for the strike call across the other four . |
| 25 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 26 | The measured unemployment rate for the advanced capitalist countries had fallen below 3 per cent . |
| 27 | At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent . |
| 28 | The liquidity squeeze ( predicted to affect only 10 per cent of the population directly ) immediately limited withdrawals from interest-bearing money-market accounts ( estimated to total $70,000 million ) to 20 per cent and those from private savings and current accounts to no more than approximately $1,000 . |
| 29 | Light , insulating , economical puffed-wood structures , using only 10 per cent by weight of the wood previously needed , will spring up everywhere . |
| 30 | Philips made 24 per cent and the ‘ rest ’ made only 14 per cent . |