Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | This widely disliked 7 per cent value added tax was even unpopular within sections of the PCP . |
| 2 | Regionally , Plaid Cymru got 9.0 per cent of the vote in Wales ; the SNP got 21.5 per cent of votes in Scotland ; in Northern Ireland the three unionist parties together got 50.2 per cent ( 52 in 1987 ) ; the SDLP 23.5 per cent ( 21.1 ) ; and Sinn Féin 10.0 per cent ( 11.4 ) . |
| 3 | Although the Komsomol in 1922 only enveloped 0.8 per cent of ill peasant youth , there did exist a cell in the Nikol'skaia volost' , and seven of its twelve members were peasants . |
| 4 | Environment ministers from 32 European countries plus Canada and the United States , which together produced 70 per cent of the world 's CO2 emissions , met in Bergen , Norway , on May 8-16 to follow up the 1987 Brundtland report on improving the global environment [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 5 | Although electricity only supplies 15 per cent of the UK 's energy demand , it consumes almost a third of primary energy from fossil fuels . |
| 6 | High mean scores are found for absence of status consciousness , experience of project leader and team ability , together explaining 71 per cent of the variance . |
| 7 | World commodity prices were set to rise about 7 per cent in 1993 , with fuel prices alone climbing 9 per cent . |
| 8 | Fifteen per cent of these earth scientists worked in Scotland , whereas Scotland only has nine per cent of the UK population . |
| 9 | Twenty years ago the rainforests covered 65 per cent of Thailand , now they only cover 12 per cent . |
| 10 | Families in the hills not only consume 25 per cent more energy than those on the plains , they also consume more firewood . |
| 11 | Luxury hotels may only allocate twenty per cent of their accommodation , whereas other hotels may regard this type of business as their main source of income and allocate eighty per cent or more of their accommodation and plan their services around this kind of market . |
| 12 | Durand-Ruel , the dealer , only added 30 per cent . |
| 13 | The new plant , using high-XXXX efficiency gas-burning technology , would only contribute 1.5 per cent of forecast peak electricity demand in Britain . |
| 14 | Farman has claimed that the assertion of the chemical industry that its activities would only contribute 1 per cent to the green-house effect over the next 120 years are " seriously underestimated " . |
| 15 | Labour 's Robin Cook got 23 per cent while Michael Heseltine only scored 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 16 | While women only comprised 13 per cent of the students financed by SERC , they were finding it rather more difficult to find work than the men . |
| 17 | He cited Corby as one area attracting 15 per cent development grant aid while Darlington only received nine per cent , and Scunthorpe whose unemployment in November was 7.9 per cent compared to Darlington 's 8.1 per cent . |
| 18 | The parties should consider Article 85 in transactions where either of the parties involved belongs to a corporate group with a turnover in excess of approximately £150 million or the vendor and the purchaser together enjoy 5 per cent or more of the total market for the relevant goods or services in the area of the common market affected by their agreement and one of the parties , normally the vendor , is accepting restrictive covenants . |
| 19 | It would be a joint venture , the exchange indicated , with the exchange perhaps owning 40 per cent with the remainder controlled by 20 or more institutions , such as banks , registrars , securities houses and large financial institutions as well as some listed companies . |
| 20 | The bit which of course basically going eight per cent . |
| 21 | The two largest councils , the ARC and the CSIR , together get 61 per cent of the science budget . |
| 22 | They were also losing votes to the left : in 1948 the Christian Democrats received 49 per cent of the votes while the Communists and Socialists together polled 31 per cent ; by 1963 the Christian Democrats ' share had fallen to 38 per cent and the Socialists and Communists ' had risen to 39 per cent . |
| 23 | This is that Basildon only swung 1.3 per cent to Labour ( and so stayed Tory ) because it has the highest Sun readership in the country ( half of all households there take it ) , whereas Hampstead fell to Glenda Jackson because it is top of the Guardian 's league ( 14 per cent of homes ) . |
| 24 | The Panel argued that private enterprise , which had hitherto provided 95 per cent of working-class housing , could not be relied upon to meet this task after the war . |
| 25 | It is often stated that we only use 10 per cent of our brain . |
| 26 | The opposition Istiqlal and Union socialiste des forces populaires together took 20.58 per cent of votes and 19.44 per cent of seats , and accused the authorities of malpractices . |
| 27 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 28 | In the Euro-elections , the Leftist Unity party only gathered 6.5 per cent of the vote , far behind the Socialists , the Conservatives and the Centrists . |
| 29 | However , as the first fifth of the file ( 20 per cent ) only contained 8.483 per cent of synonyms , the four-fifths of the file loaded later must have a higher average number of synonyms than 34.063 to bring the overall average to that figure . |
| 30 | By spinning clothes so that they only contained 35 per cent moisture level instead of 80 per cent would save up to two thirds of the energy used in a tumble dryer . |