Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , dollars for lira and dollars for the French franc — the other main ERM currencies — total only 4 per cent . |
| 2 | During the Battle of Britain , Air Chief Marshal Dowding had the incomparable advantage of information from Ultra and he monitored its signals very carefully ; he knew , therefore , that only fifty per cent of the German aircraft were then serviceable , and so , on 15 September he sent up every available fighter plane against the enemy . |
| 3 | Even on the increased expenditure levels expected by 1994-95 , it is probable that only 1 per cent . |
| 4 | Does my hon. Friend the Minister agree that while Britain has the highest proportion of health costs funded by the public purse , the British public have shown their confidence in it by the fact that only 13 per cent . |
| 5 | He will know that only 85 per cent . |
| 6 | In particular , the New York Times/CBS poll of Oct. 22 found that 79 per cent believed foreign policy less important than home issues , that only 37 per cent approved Bush 's handling of the economy , and that 56 per cent believed that the recession was getting worse . |
| 7 | In my local authority it is estimated that only 9 per cent . |
| 8 | Military analysts reported , however , that only 28 per cent of the budget was used for equipment purposes , the remainder being spent on salaries , the maintenance of US bases and the service support infrastructure . |
| 9 | The Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure noted research which suggests that only 15 per cent . |
| 10 | were dealt with in less than eight weeks ; of the 34,539 who pleaded not guilty only 24 per cent . |
| 11 | For example , a firm with two partners would be getting 100 per cent attendance : a firm with eight only 20 per cent [ sic ] . |
| 12 | In 1879 only 10 per cent of the tonnage launched on the Clyde was of steel construction , but by 1889 that figure had risen to 97 per cent . |
| 13 | The DES ( 1984b ) estimate of those candidates qualified for university in 1980/81 but not in 1982/83 and who did not gain a university place in 1982/83 only 47 per cent went into public sector HE . |
| 14 | In 1985 only 2.4 per cent of farmers ' sons finding employment were engaged in farming . |
| 15 | And the number of house owners among the elderly is rising : in 1985 only 47 per cent of household heads over 65 were house owners . |
| 16 | In 1985 approximately 5 per cent of those aged 65 + were in receipt of district nursing services and 4 per cent health visiting services , compared with 2 per cent for both types of service in 1972 . |
| 17 | As we saw in Chapter 2 approximately 5 per cent of those aged 65 + live in some form of institutional care . |
| 18 | They comprise some 13,600 km 2 approximately 9 per cent of the land surface of England and Wales ( there are no national parks , as such , in Scotland ) . |
| 19 | In the 1890s about 60 per cent of European emigrants went to the United States , but this proportion tended to drop while South America 's share grew steadily . |
| 20 | Recipients of loans Between 1981 and 1985 the EIB undertook loans of ECU28.5 billion , and of this over 90 per cent was within the European Community . |
| 21 | Of a total of 3.75 million farm households in 1985 over 83 per cent were part-time farmers . |
| 22 | Due to the greater degree of nationalisation which had taken place throughout Western Europe since the end of the war , it was discovered , in 1960 , that approximately forty per cent of the labour force was employed by the various governments . |
| 23 | As a result , in 1979 only 75 per cent of payments for imports and net interest was covered by exports and other net receipts . |
| 24 | By 1979 only 9 per cent of employers regarded the Plan as very important . |
| 25 | To put this data into perspective , of the 25 million workers in firms employing less than 100 only 5.4 per cent belong to a union . |
| 26 | The first stage of the transition to market prices would mean dividing prices into three categories : by the end of 1991 only 55 per cent of goods would be sold at fixed state prices , 30 per cent would be " regulated " , and prices for the remaining 15 per cent of goods would be freed completely . |
| 27 | The major reason for this is that a rather small proportion of the population makes a will-only about 20 per cent on the most authoritative figures available ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ; Manners and Rauta , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | In 1979 about 57 per cent of elderly married couples ' incomes were supplemented by an occupational pension ( usually arising from the husband 's previous job ) and the percentage for men living alone was much the same ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 29 | In 1979 almost 65 per cent of places in residential homes were in local authority establishments , but by 1986 the proportion had fallen to just below 50 per cent . |
| 30 | Government policy and commercial development thus came together to make the Tokugawa period an era of rapid urbanization ; estimates suggest that in the early 1800s around 15 per cent of the population could be considered as dwelling in urban areas . |