Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 In the statistical period , 1978–81 , losses continued to be greatest in Scotland , the North and Wales ; they were only 4 per cent in Yorkshire and 2 per cent in the East Midlands .
2 However , the early surveys of the Government Actuary 's department show that in the private sector in 1956 there were only 34 per cent of ‘ salaried ’ women ( 71 per cent of men ) and 23 per cent of ‘ waged ’ women ( 38 per cent of men ) in schemes ( Government Actuary , 1958 , p. 4 ) .
3 By mid-September , according to figures released yesterday , subscriptions to Izvestia , the government daily , which now sells close to 11 million copies , were only 61 per cent of the level 12 months before .
4 When sales of unleaded were only 16 per cent of all fuel revenue in Britain , Germany was leading the field with a figure of 53 per cent ; in Denmark the percentage was 34 and in Norway 27 .
5 Weekly earnings in 1812 were only 16 per cent above their 1793 level , although they had been 25 per cent higher in 1808 .
6 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 .
7 There were only thirteen per cent more cattle theft cases in the Central Province during the height of the downturn than during the years immediately preceding and following it .
8 In 1961 28 per cent of first-time marriages involved teenage brides ( women under 20 years ) whereas there were only 14 per cent in 1986 .
9 Suppose that interest rates in Italy are higher by 2 per cent than in the UK and at the same time the necessary discount applied to the spot rate were only 1 per cent .
10 If the discount applied to the lire were only 1 per cent as suggested above , then clearly it would be possible to gain over all by earning an extra 2 per cent on the lire deposit and accept that this would be reduced by 1 per cent as the cost of forward cover , making a 1 per cent gain overall in comparison with staying in sterling and importantly be fully hedged .
11 At that time , miners ' wages were only 60 per cent .
12 The most extreme difference occurred between open class items and affixes. 96 per cent of errors in the production of open class items were substitution errors , and only 4 per cent loss or addition errors , whereas for affixes there were only 24 per cent substitution errors but 76 per cent loss and addition errors .
13 The sales of the largest 100 US firms were nearly double the sales of the largest 100 non-US firm in 1962 ; in 1972 they were only 40 per cent more .
14 In fact , in Tanzania in 1984 farmgate prices for a mix of agricultural products using estimated market exchange rates were only 20 per cent of export prices .
15 Motorcyclist casualties in 1992 were down 13 per cent with deaths falling 16 per cent and serious injuries down 14 per cent .
16 JULY car sales were down 8 per cent .
17 In the latest three months the volume overall sales were down 1 per cent with the steepest falls registered by retailers of clothing and footwear , down 5 per cent and household goods , 4 per cent .
18 Total on-trade beer sales were down eight per cent as a result of the recession , with nablabs having fallen by 20 per cent .
19 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 .
20 In Sterling terms , however , sales were down 4 per cent ( Stg£191.4 million against Stg£200.1 million for 1991 ) .
21 David Gockley reports that corporate contributions , an essential ingredient of his budget , were down 30 per cent this year ; obviously , another year or two like that and the HGO will be in desperate straits .
22 By 1984 the number of airlines had risen from 36 to 120 , fares were down 30 per cent , and passengers use was up 50 per cent .
23 They were down 15 per cent on March last year .
24 With Jaguar revealing more misery in the US where September sales were down 19.1 per cent year on the year , the company needs the takeover interest to keep its share price alive .
25 I mean , it 's like like Colin and I , I mean , like we 're happy but then , no were not hundred per cent happy at all , But like , er , like some people I ca n't if you get upset , some people eat more , some people eat less , or you know , some go into recluse , some get and like Colin ,
26 In the year to August , sales were just 1.2 per cent above a year ago .
27 In East London where poverty was most heavily concentrated the figures were respectively 35 per cent and 13.3 per cent
28 It found that people in the most polluted of the six cities were still 26 per cent more likely to die than those in the least polluted city .
29 But , in 1984 , by the end of the relocation programme , house prices in the Corby area were still 15 per cent less than in the South East .
30 In very difficult trading circumstances , footwear exports in the past 12 months were up 11 per cent .
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