Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his report to the 65th session of the IMO Council meeting on Nov. 5-9 , he said that the organization had so far received only 63 per cent of the contributions due for 1990 — the lowest figure for many years . |
| 2 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 3 | The measured unemployment rate for the advanced capitalist countries had fallen below 3 per cent . |
| 4 | At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent . |
| 5 | Similarly , POC is constrained above 50 per cent accuracy and POE is constrained below 50 per cent accuracy . |
| 6 | Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent . |
| 7 | As a minority shareholding interest in an unquoted company , his shares would have attracted only 30 per cent relief , leaving £21,000 ( £30,000 — £9,000 ) for inclusion in his estate for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 8 | However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change . |
| 9 | We sell these bags at £2.49 and have added only 15 per cent profit . ’ |
| 10 | The 20 per cent of the poorest households , who had claimed only 0.9 per cent of the ‘ original income ’ , rose through welfare benefits and other supplementary assistance to a ‘ final income ’ share of 9.0 per cent . |
| 11 | He replaced Diogo Freitas do Amaral , who resigned in October 1991 , after the party had polled only 4.4 per cent of the vote in that month 's general election [ see p. 38546 ] . |
| 12 | On the previous day Harkin had won only 1 per cent of the vote in the Nevada caucus , which had been won by Brown with 35 per cent ; Clinton had polled 26 per cent , Tsongas 20 per cent , and 17 per cent of the votes had been cast for uncommitted delegates . |
| 13 | It is not fair , perhaps , that with 23 per cent of the vote the Alliance should have won only 3 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons . |
| 14 | However , only 43 per cent were paid more than £5 per week above the minimum , and full-time male farm workers in 1977 still earned only 77 per cent of the average earnings of all male manual workers . |
| 15 | The tables show that these birds at best occupied only 25 per cent . |
| 16 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 17 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 18 | Even standing as independents in April 's elections , their candidates won about 13 per cent of the vote . |
| 19 | The Romans produced coins from this alloy which , in the first century AD , contained about 25 per cent zinc . |
| 20 | The MDP had won 24 per cent of votes , but only a small number of seats ; the NPP and SDP had polled about 5 per cent each and the MPFL and the MPG about 1 per cent each . |
| 21 | Ahead of the Supreme Soviet elections in Latvia the nationalist Latvian Popular Front had been confidently predicting that it would secure a two-thirds majority in the 201-seat chamber , basing this prediction on its unexpectedly strong showing in the local elections in December 1989 when its candidates had won around 75 per cent of all seats , including half the seats in the city soviet of the predominantly Russian-populated capital , Riga . |
| 22 | With some votes still to be counted , the coalition had won around 44 per cent of the 3,600,000 votes cast , a fall in support of some 5 per cent compared with the election of 1988 . |
| 23 | It is also evident in the overall figures , which show that we have attracted almost 40 per cent . |
| 24 | Surveys over the last two decades , in America at least , have typically reported over 80 per cent of workers being ‘ satisfied ’ with their jobs ( Hackman and Oldham 1980 , 10 ) . |
| 25 | It must be considered extremely fortunate that the first preparations of the sodium salt of penicillin , which although of great antibacterial activity contained over 99 per cent of impurities , showed so little toxicity . |
| 26 | Hearn and Doyle , whose players won over 70 per cent of the prize money on the WPBSA circuit last year , would rather see greater efficiency and cost effectiveness . |
| 27 | Ershad 's Jatiya Party won over 10 per cent of the seats , including that won by Ershad himself ( who was under arrest and facing serious corruption charges ) in his home district of Rangpur . |
| 28 | In the contests for around 52,000 seats on over 2,300 local councils , Solidarity-backed Citizens ' Committees won over 41 per cent of the seats nationwide and performed strongly in the main cities , making a virtually clean sweep in Gdansk , Krakow and Wroclaw and taking nearly 90 per cent in Warsaw , the capital . |
| 29 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 30 | The new rate , which compared with levels of 14 per cent in October 1990 , followed news that factory-gate prices had risen only 5.7 per cent year-on-year in June , compared with 6 per cent in May . |