Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 2 | However Mr Olsen made it clear that the company had no intention of allowing its stake to fall below 50 per cent . |
| 3 | The liquidity squeeze ( predicted to affect only 10 per cent of the population directly ) immediately limited withdrawals from interest-bearing money-market accounts ( estimated to total $70,000 million ) to 20 per cent and those from private savings and current accounts to no more than approximately $1,000 . |
| 4 | Inflation to remain below two per cent |
| 5 | The problem is further compounded in St Lucia because the amount of land under cultivation is sufficient to support only 40 per cent of the rural population and , since there are few opportunities in urban centres to provide alternative livelihoods , pressures on land will continue to occur . |
| 6 | Today the share is likely to stand below 20 per cent . |
| 7 | Renewable energy is to provide only one per cent of electricity by the end of the century . |
| 8 | On March 15 the " Paris Club " of 17 creditor countries agreed in an unprecedented move to write off 50 per cent of Poland 's $33,000 million debt to foreign government creditors . |
| 9 | However , against this must be set an extra local authority expenditure on services of 4.6 million , and a regional multiplier of only between 0.35 and 0.45 , to provide about 5 per cent of regional income . |
| 10 | It is due on stream in 1995 and is expected to meet about 10 per cent of Pakistan 's total current gas consumption . |
| 11 | ‘ an attempt to span out 95 per cent of the quality of effluent at present discharged from the [ sewage ] works , taking out the fliers and the obviously bad discharges . |
| 12 | Results in the 71 seats in electoral districts , where the winning candidate was required to secure over 50 per cent of the votes , were decisive for only 13 seats ( 10 of them won by the DLP ) . |
| 13 | Hay 's , which came to the market around Grey Monday , managed to sell just 8 per cent of the shares on issue . |
| 14 | A statement by the Serbian Environment Minister , Pavle Todorovic , said that the Serbian government has also decided to set aside 1 per cent from every investment in " dirty " technology in an environmental protection fund . |
| 15 | Government departments were ordered to set aside 10 per cent of their budget to be released only with presidential approval ; spending on all non-infrastructure projects , except schools , hospitals and disaster relief , would be deferred . |
| 16 | But now it is widely available and is used to create about 95 per cent of the world 's ammonia . |
| 17 | Consequently , companies from the old colonial powers of Britain and France continue to own about 30 per cent of the stock of foreign investments , with the USA and Japan owning another 50 per cent . |
| 18 | While the SPD 's share of the vote fell by 7.5 per cent to 47.3 , the Right-wing Deutsche Volks-Union came from nowhere to rack up 5.1 per cent and a place in the local parliament . |
| 19 | The company also plans to buy about 70 per cent of its materials from Scottish suppliers . |
| 20 | Under threat are the world 's drylands , which are said to constitute about 35 per cent of the world 's land area and support some 850 million people . |
| 21 | The European Commission allows assisted areas to cover about 35 per cent . |
| 22 | Flame retardants , degradability additives and UV stabilisers will be the best performers , all forecast to grow over 25 per cent in five years . |
| 23 | Suppose that an individual has to put up 100 per cent margin ( i.e. has to pay the full amount of the investment Pf from the start ) but that this can be invested at the riskless rate r . |
| 24 | The Act also allows President Ramos to negotiate contracts to build new power plants , bypassing the public bidding process , and requires state-owned casinos to give up 10 per cent of their profits over the next five years to the National Power Corporation . |
| 25 | Mineral revenues would have to finance nearly 20 per cent of recurrent expenditure , which Mogae described as " a disturbing trend indicating our dependence on the mineral sector " . |
| 26 | Discriminatory and punitive rates , like Mr Smith 's 59 per cent , not only put many of the most agile brains in the country to work to find ways of avoiding them but create a profound disinclination to work harder or take risks when you have to give nearly 60 per cent of it to the Government . |
| 27 | But to maintain its market position as a leading systems and software house , it would need to persuade about 70 per cent of its key employees in the north London locations to relocate with the company . |
| 28 | By 1900 however , the birth rate was plunging as couples chose to have fewer children , just as improved health had also begun to have a marked impact ; and it is the combination in the twentieth century of a now almost stagnant population of small families with a new fall in death rates which explains the striking rise of over-sixty-year-olds to form over 20 per cent of our population today and why , more than in any previous generation , such a high proportion of them are without children . |
| 29 | There is even a condition known as ‘ intensive care psychosis ’ which is said to affect about twenty per cent of those who have been patients in hospital intensive care units . |
| 30 | The safer option is to start about fifteen per cent further down the line , thereby giving yourself a little more room . |