Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Consumer goods manufacturers averaged only 12.5 per cent . |
| 3 | During the period of rebuilding the economy after World War Two , the growth rate averaged only 1.4 per cent . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 1984 it produced only 3.1 per cent of GNP . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Philips made 24 per cent and the ‘ rest ’ made only 14 per cent . |
| 10 | Coal and kerosene contributed only 8 per cent of the total cooking energy in 1953–54 , and rose to a peak of 14 per cent in 1970–71 . |
| 11 | Transportation sources contributed only 31 per cent of annual emissions in 1989 compared with 88 per cent in 1978 . |
| 12 | Although Australia possessed some 30 per cent of the world 's known uranium , it provided only 10 per cent of output , largely because of the left 's traditional hostility to the nuclear industry . |
| 13 | Between 1908 and 1912 the school medical officer for Batley found only 40.2 per cent of schoolchildren free from medical defects other than the endemic bad teeth . |
| 14 | However , a 1939 survey of the health of 1,250 working class wives found only 31.3 per cent to be in good health , 22.3 per cent were categorised as ‘ indifferent ’ , 15.2 per cent as ‘ bad ’ and 31.2 per cent as ‘ very grave ’ . |
| 15 | A Gallup Poll in August found only 31 per cent support for the United States with 49 per cent against . |
| 16 | A sample taken by the Institute for Terrestrial Ecology found only 3 per cent wholly intact . |
| 17 | I found only 35 per cent of the books in the catalogue of the nearest library of this standard . |
| 18 | In comparison , a survey of 1,200 white pensioners living in Melton Mowbray found only 2 per cent did not have a state pension . |
| 19 | At constant exchange rates , turnover rose only 4 per cent , pre-tax profits by 11 per cent and earnings per share by 9 per cent . |
| 20 | Advertising revenue rose only 4 per cent , down £29 million from 1989 's record . |
| 21 | Profits rose only two per cent to $829 million , but would have increased by 12 per cent without the purchase of Apollo earlier this year . |
| 22 | Imports of passenger cars over the three months rose only two per cent by volume , whilst imports of capital goods were down six per cent . |
| 23 | Over the last three months they rose only 0.5 per cent by value on the previous three months , but still some 12 per cent more than the same period in 1988 . |
| 24 | Although official prices rose only 2 per cent , unsatisfied consumer demand ( estimated at a value of 165,000 million roubles ) drove up inflation to an annualized rate of 7.5 per cent . |
| 25 | CORPORATE bankruptcies in Japan rose only 2.7 per cent in January and their resulting debt fell more than 40 per cent from a year ago , but analysts said that it was too soon to say the worst was over . |
| 26 | Fifteen miles away in Witney Henry Box School reported just three per cent truancy . |
| 27 | The USA contributed approximately 25 per cent of the WHO regular budget and up to 30 per cent of some special programmes . |
| 28 | Sales almost doubled from £61.9m to £120m for the year to 30 June , but operating margins fell sharply and pre-tax profits rose just five per cent to £7.29m . |
| 29 | Pre-tax profits in the three months to end-December rose just 4.4 per cent to £236 million from £226 million in the same period last year . |
| 30 | Share issues and a rising tax charges meant earnings rose just 25 per cent to 22.5p and a final dividend of 3p makes a total of 5.6p ( 4.5p ) . |