Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] 10 [unc] cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Only about 10 per cent of respondents favoured a return . |
| 4 | Most of the specialists are Dermato -venereologists , and usually only about 10 per cent of the patients they see are suffering from a sexually transmitted disease , the remainder having skin problems . |
| 5 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 6 | One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police . |
| 7 | Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position . |
| 8 | Only about 10 per cent of the Chile 's estimated 400,000 temporeros belong to any kind of union . |
| 9 | The Mexican Finance Ministry had announced on Jan. 10 , 1990 , that only about 10 per cent of the banks had chosen the new loans option , one of three choices under the four-year commercial bank debt refinancing agreement reached in July 1989 with 15 major banking creditors . |
| 10 | Men might also leave the land , members of Wigston families migrated to Leicester into commerce , and it reflects the mobility of the population that only about 10 per cent of the families there survived in the male line from 1377 to the time of Henry VIII . |
| 11 | Only about 10 per cent of expenditure went on services that were clearly pro poor and about 20 per cent were biased toward those services ( e.g. education , roads , leisure services ) that favoured the better off . |
| 12 | However , despite these encouraging figures , marketing studies carried out in the USA show that most home-gym equipment goes unused and only around 10 per cent of American adults engage in brisk , regular exercise . |
| 13 | The three major paper producers in northern Europe — Finland , Sweden and Norway — recycle only around 10 per cent of their paper . |
| 14 | By 1988 there were almost 300,000 , just under 10 per cent of the estimated population of Lebanon . |
| 15 | Under the system of proportional representation used in the 1986 election , his party managed to win 35 parliamentary seats with just under 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 16 | The bank 's liability is generally about 10 per cent of the contract price , but , however it can be higher . |
| 17 | Just over 10 per cent of the bottom two bands gave an answer which indicated they had used the wrong scale . |
| 18 | Thereafter about 10 per cent of qualified staff left annually , particularly in the younger age groups which is partially compensated for by the re-entry of qualified staff . |
| 19 | But , as table 4. 1 shows , by the early 1980s the railways ' share of passenger traffic was well below 10 per cent in both countries , their share of freight traffic not that much higher . |
| 20 | However , it is likely that well under 10 per cent of patients will need to be admitted to a psychiatric unit provided that other treatment facilities are available . |
| 21 | Moreover , by the beginning of the 19th century , the rate of growth had become really fast — well over 10 per cent in ten years . ’ |