Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diesel offers immediate fuel saving of between 20 to 30 per cent , and when such developments as the direct-injected , two-stroke , supercharged diesel come along the savings could be higher , 70 or 80 per cent , which would reduce carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 2 | The Mortgage Indemnity Guarantee is a charge for which you should be prepared when you take out your loan if it is for more than 70 or 80 per cent of the property 's value . |
| 3 | Calculated at around four per cent of the loan over the 70 or 80 per cent , the money is used by the lender to take out an insurance policy which covers them if you should default . |
| 4 | But there are erm others who , for whom teaching is the major aspect and the major important role that they perceive for themselves erm but there is always a balance and on balance , taken over the whole system , I should think that most people spend fifty or sixty per cent of their time on research . |
| 5 | If you add up all the various er stroke and heart and lung diseases , er you account for possibly fifty or sixty per cent of all the deaths that occur in Great Britain each year . |
| 6 | Government statistics announced on June 11 showed end-May unemployment of 1,434,000 or 7.7 per cent of the working population . |
| 7 | The interest provision should in fact interrelate with the " period of grace " provision and a suggested formula is 2 per cent above base lending rate if payment is not made within 14 days after becoming due or 3 per cent above if not made within 21 days . |
| 8 | When Sir Oliver suggests asking eight or ten per cent on the loan , Mr Moses says if he asks him no more than that his impersonation will be discovered . |
| 9 | ‘ They must go up , and they could go to 12 or 13 per cent . |
| 10 | In Catholic working-class areas like Newry , Londonderry 's Bogside , and parts of West Belfast , it rose to even 30 or 40 per cent . |
| 11 | The plantations would be open to foreign acquisition but overall foreign ownership would be limited to 30 or 40 per cent . |
| 12 | Fears that the economy was on the verge of a recession eased following the report that unemployment had held steady in August at 5.2 per cent , however , adult unemployment rose by 50,000 or 0.1 per cent , in September 1989 . |
| 13 | You are talking about 2 or 3 per cent , and the Government are putting people 's lives in jeopardy . ’ |
| 14 | It was a generally constructive attempt to discuss the fact that 2 or 3 per cent of the population of most big European countries is now from the Third World , something which those who rhapsodise about the ‘ European identity ’ often ignore . |
| 15 | Body Oils : For a 2 or 3 per cent concentration , add two or three drops of essential oil to each teaspoonful of base oil . |
| 16 | They proposed that Harward create such a super-track tuned to human elasticity , and predicted it would increase speeds by 2 or 3 per cent . |
| 17 | Mars , Cadbury and Rowntree between them controlled about 80 per cent of the market , and so an addition of 2 or 3 per cent would be unlikely to affect the competitive position ( refer to Table 2.4 ) . |
| 18 | There is some evidence that the cloud cover over the US has increased since 1950 by 2 or 3 per cent , according to James Angell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . |
| 19 | The PDA said on Oct. 30 that 98.92 per cent of the 185,437 voters ( of 264,154 eligible to vote ) had been in favour of Sandzak autonomy . |
| 20 | Mr Cameron said the Home Secretary appeared ‘ mystified ’ about the pay formula but made it clear that 1.5 per cent was the maximum rise available . |
| 21 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 22 | For a 10,000 million tonne nuclear war scenario , it is estimated that the ozone column would be reduced by between 30 and 70 per cent in the northern hemisphere and by up to 40 per cent in the southern hemisphere ( Crutzen and Birks , 1982 ; US National Research Council , 1975b ; Turco et al. , 1983 ; Whitten et al. , 1975 ) . |
| 23 | The amount of rainfall available from the run-off would be variable , but should be between 30 and 33 per cent of the total . |
| 24 | The main drawback of the bankruptcy laws as they stood was the high cost to creditors of realizing the estates of their insolvent debtors — between 30 and 40 per cent of the amount they hoped to recover . |
| 25 | Between 30 and 40 per cent off selected items . |
| 26 | Reductions of between 30 and 40 per cent on selected women 's clothes and accessories . |
| 27 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 28 | The economy remained on a war footing during 1989 with between 30 and 40 per cent of the budget being spent on defence . |
| 29 | Under this settlement , subject to approval by the courts in the UK , Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands and by 70 per cent of the creditors involved , those shareholders — the Ruler and authorities of Abu Dhabi — would ( i ) make a payment of $1,700 million ( adjustable up or down by $500 million ) to make possible a return to creditors of between 30 and 40 per cent ; and ( ii ) assume responsibility for certain liabilities of BCCI branches in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 30 | A considerable proportion — between 30 and 40 per cent — actually did so , though most commonly for the opposite reason , because they did not like the New World or could not establish themselves there . |