Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] 10 [no cls] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turnover was up 10 per cent , to £1.5 billion , with 19,000 employees currently undergoing formal training — another record figure . |
| 2 | The population as a whole is about 10 per cent fatter than it used to be . |
| 3 | Total Waterford Crystal US sales were over 10 per cent up on 1991 . |
| 4 | The risk-free rate is currently 10 per cent and the expected market rate of return is 15 per cent and neither is expected to change over the 5-year investment period . |
| 5 | Rainfall during the December-April rainy season was under 10 per cent of normal , and the country 's maize crop has been devastated . |
| 6 | Profits and earnings per share rose 17 per cent and dividends to shareholders were up 10 per cent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The best efficiency achieved to date is about 10 per cent . |
| 9 | For executives below board level the median increase was about 10 per cent . |
| 10 | In early modern England the proportion of solitary 65-year-olds was only 10 per cent , while in the mid-nineteenth century it came as low as 7.5 . |
| 11 | Conventional solar cells rely on silicon crystals , and energy conversion is around 10 per cent . |
| 12 | The normal premium is about 10 per cent of the total sum insured . |