Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to official results released on Dec. 22 , in the first round of presidential elections held on Nov. 25 , Albert Zafy of the Comité des forces vives won 45.16 per cent of votes cast , the incumbent President Didier Ratsiraka 19.22 per cent and Manandafy Rakotonirina of the Movement for Proletarian Power ( MFM ) 10.21 per cent ( there were five other candidates ) ; the date for the second round run-off between Zafy and Ratsiraka was set for Feb. 10 , 1993 . |
| 2 | The poll of 60 voting precincts gave Mr Wilder 55 per cent of the vote . |
| 3 | Mr Clerides took 36.74 per cent in the first round and Mr Paschalides 18.54 per cent . |
| 4 | In the union section , Mr Davies 's supporters claim he won 18 per cent , Mr Field 10 per cent and Ms Kathy Wilson , a Militant supporter , 7 per cent . |
| 5 | This time the ‘ do n't knows ’ won with 36 per cent ; Mr Brown , former California governor , took 33 per cent and Mr Clinton 30 per cent . |
| 6 | In Kansas , Mr Clinton was 46 per cent , Mr Brown 17 per cent with Mr Tsongas trailing even further back . |
| 7 | ACCORDING to Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , in the United States 90 per cent of the arts are funded by individual donors . |
| 8 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 9 | The UK imports 95 per cent of its charcoal , mostly from rainforests . |
| 10 | London salaries were only 11 per cent above average , with executive salaries in Yorkshire , Humberside and the East Midlands 5 per cent below average , showing much less of a regional difference than is often assumed . |
| 11 | In the West Midlands , the swing was 10.5 per cent ; in the East Midlands eight per cent ; and Yorkshire and Humberside 10.5 per cent — enough to turn many areas of the electoral map red tomorrow night . |
| 12 | By the early 1970s a typical continental European country was devoting a little over 20 per cent of GDP to social expenditure , the United States and United Kingdom 17–18 per cent , and Japan 10 per cent . |
| 13 | The final result was close , with Jordan polling 52 per cent of the vote compared with 48 per cent for Agnos . |
| 14 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |
| 15 | Sweden forecast 70 per cent reduction in encephalography and 60 per cent reduction in cerebral angiogram times . |
| 16 | In the 1989 RSC survey 14 per cent of male respondents and 13 per cent of women respondents worked for employers who had officially recognised job sharing schemes . |
| 17 | Share prices in the five major industrialized countries showed the following percentage losses in share prices in the year ending Oct. 26 , 1990 : France 14.9 per cent , West Germany 1.6 per cent , Japan 33.7 per cent , UK 5.4 per cent and the USA 10.6 per cent . |
| 18 | Four regions were found to be above the average : Scotland , 12.2 per cent ; the West Midlands 12 per cent ; the South-west 11.6 per cent ; and London 11.5 per cent . |
| 19 | In the pre-congress elections among party members , the Mauroy-Jospin faction had gained 28.9 per cent of the votes , the Fabius faction 28.8 per cent and the Rocard faction 24.3 per cent ; smaller factions led by Jean-Pierre Chevènement , the Defence Minister , and Jean Poperen , Minister for Relations with Parliament , had gained 8.5 per cent and 7.2 per cent respectively ; two other platforms gained the remaining 1.4 per cent . |
| 20 | A recent survey gave Ms Kennedy 43 per cent , Lib Dems 28 per cent and Fields a humiliating 16 per cent . |
| 21 | Flooring : Tapis D'Avignon 98 per cent wool felt floorcovering in Bois De Rose and Corail colourways , comes in 140 cm widths but can be sewn together to cover larger areas , or bound with linen tape to make rugs . |
| 22 | Just consider the additional impact that might have come from more popular scheduled kick-off times ( floodlit games all round ? ) when , again in ABC1 men ratings , New Zealand v Italy ‘ scored ’ 11 per cent , Wales v Argentine 16 per cent , France v Canada 11 per cent , New Zealand v Canada 13 per cent and Australia v New Zealand 16 per cent . |
| 23 | Mark Lawrenson 41 per cent … he 's the man you want … |
| 24 | The Plan laid out a 123-point , three-stage strategy to make the air of Los Angeles 70 per cent cleaner by 2009 . |
| 25 | In the pre-congress elections among party members , the Mauroy-Jospin faction had gained 28.9 per cent of the votes , the Fabius faction 28.8 per cent and the Rocard faction 24.3 per cent ; smaller factions led by Jean-Pierre Chevènement , the Defence Minister , and Jean Poperen , Minister for Relations with Parliament , had gained 8.5 per cent and 7.2 per cent respectively ; two other platforms gained the remaining 1.4 per cent . |
| 26 | Glasgow is one of the hardest-hit areas and in some Lanarkshire schools 25 per cent of pupils have been affected . |
| 27 | Glasgow is one of the hardest-hit areas and in some Lanarkshire schools 25 per cent of pupils have been affected . |
| 28 | The Gloucestershire Royal Hospital 's average is 12.4 per cent , Oxford 's John Radciffe 13.3 per cent , and Hereford County Hospital 14.2 . |