Example sentences of "[pron] be about [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1	He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off …
2	That 's nine thousand five hundred million pounds , which is about four per cent of our gross domestic product .
3	To buy a second engraved copy at 24 livres , which was about 5 per cent of the cost of a good harpsichord , would have been extravagant at a time when copying was cheap .
4	He caught over a stone of roach , which was about 200 per cent more than any normal angler would have managed .
5	And you reckon we 're we 're four per cent you 're about four per cent below .
6	I think she is about 70 per cent right .
7	We had 80 per cent occupancy over the entire year , yet we 're about 25 per cent down on budget for those occupancy figures . ’
8	The fact that manual workers married on average , and throughout the period , about a year earlier helped contribute to this , as did the fact that there was about fifty per cent more childlessness among non-manual families .
9	It 's about four per cent on each of the prices .
10	‘ We do have a bit of indie in us , it 's about 10 per cent indie , 90 per cent dance .
11	It 's about eighty per cent experience and the other twenty common sense . ’
12	Today it is about 75 per cent Palestinian .
13	; in Waltham Forest , my borough , it is about 7 per cent .
14	Even with the decline in business investment in this recession , it is about 40 per cent .
15	It was about 80 per cent pure and you know there 's no rubbish in it .

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