Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Graham : ‘ He 's only 75 per cent fit . |
| 2 | And his t his policies There 's only one me er mediator between God and man , the man Christ Jesus . |
| 3 | Some time ago Jacques Delors let slip the speculation that in the mid 1990 's perhaps 80 per cent of domestic economic legislation would derive from Brussels . |
| 4 | Prima remains the bestseller but is down 17 per cent . |
| 5 | ‘ Our staff turnover is down 50 per cent and that is not entirely due to the effects of the recession , ’ says general manager of the Holiday Inn Bristol , a Scotts ' hotel which recently completed a £10 million refurbishment and emerged as the Bristol Marriott . |
| 6 | In Liverpool drink-related crime is down 22 per cent and in the Thames Valley it has dropped 13 per cent so far this year . |
| 7 | of manufacturing jobs were lost in Barry in my constituency in the last Conservative recession , manufacturing growth is down 3.7 per cent . |
| 8 | In South Dakota the number of cattle has dropped from 5.2 million to four million since the bankruptcy crisis of ‘ 85 , and the human population is down 20 per cent . |
| 9 | Rots can not flourish if the moisture content of the wood is below 18 per cent although the spores can remain alive in quite dry timber , waiting for a rainy day . |
| 10 | Whereas in 1974 well over 60 per cent of male sixteen year olds were in work , today that total is only 16 per cent . |
| 11 | One analysis by Stuart Nachtwey of NASA estimates the extra risk of cancer over an 18-month voyage , including 30 days on Mars , is only 1 per cent . |
| 12 | The butterfly population of the Alps is only 1 per cent of the level at the start of this century , Alp Action says , because of the use of pesticides and uprooting of hedgerows . |
| 13 | Grattan is only 5 per cent ahead which looks a poor defence against wage costs rising by 8 per cent and high street occupancy costs by 20 per cent . |
| 14 | for teachers ' pay , so the differential between Hampshire and my hon. Friend 's county is only 5 per cent . |
| 15 | He estimates ( using parameters derived from the brain damaged population ) that though the probability of left sided speech given a right ear advantage is 97 per cent , the probability of right sided speech given a left ear advantage is only 10 per cent . |
| 16 | The Soviet military mind may admire US technology and regret that the Soviet GNP is only 50–60 per cent the size of its opponent 's , but when surveying the way the US economy is organised , an officer of the |
| 17 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 18 | Of course you w of course you would Of course you would and it may be that what you will have to say is , Well look , erm I gave you the four per cent on the on the precision types and that that really has to stay , but by the time we by the time we 've done all the analysis on the er on the popular metrics , it will work out that it is is is only two per cent . |
| 19 | The USSR employs about five times as many farm workers as the US and invests about five times as much as does US farming annually , yet Soviet output is only 80 per cent that of the U S A. Again like any bureaucratic system of production , risk-taking is never rewarded and hence there is no premium put on innovation . |
| 20 | National Savings Certificates are paying a miserable 7.5 per cent tax free and no one should be holding any certificates which have reached maturity as the rate paid under general extension terms is only 5.1 per cent . |
| 21 | The largesse the NHS received in an election year was predictably short-lived and the settlement for 1993 is only 0.8 per cent above the inflation forecast . |
| 22 | Suitable burners can be 60 per cent efficient — burning cow-dung cakes is only 11 per cent efficient . |
| 23 | Thus for technicians and draughtsmen it is only 11 per cent . |
| 24 | When we take longer working hours into account the differential widens still further as wages per productive hour in small Japanese firms is only 46 per cent of the sum paid in large firms . |
| 25 | For example , 83 per cent of men aged between 65 and 70 live with their spouses , while the corresponding proportion for women is only 55 per cent . |
| 26 | This is only 8 per cent of total Volvo car production worldwide , and five times more cars are still assembled on traditional lines at Gothenburg . |
| 27 | Consequently consultation is only 8 per cent of working time . |
| 28 | Sure enough , there is only forty per cent attendance at breakfast . |
| 29 | ( In the Mediterranean the kernel is only 35 per cent and the shell 65 per cent ; the Californian reversal is just one result of the intensive breeding and selection programme . ) |
| 30 | But even up to the age of 30 the growth in women 's wages is only 35 per cent compared to 90 per cent for men . |