Example sentences of "cent and [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Production of foodstuffs rose by 3.2 per cent and of consumer goods by 7.7 per cent , helped by a good grain harvest ( 211,100,000 tonnes ) and by 21 per cent and 11 per cent increases in the output of alcoholic drinks and sugar , respectively ; output of fish products fell by 4 per cent . |
| 2 | Scheduled and charter passenger throughout rose by five per cent and 11 per cent respectively to over 260,000 and 675,000 . |
| 3 | These projections give a prison population in 1997 of between 64,000 ( DM ) and 67,100 ( NDM ) — an increase of between 28 per cent and 34 per cent on current figures ( Home Office 1989a ) . |
| 4 | Chile had a similar 28 per cent and Peru 29 per cent , while Venezuela and Brazil fared a little better with 31 per cent and 32 per cent of the total population in the labour force ( World in Figures 1978 ) . |
| 5 | This was particularly so with the education professions and with low skilled industrial jobs where women made up 57 per cent and 23 per cent respectively of the total workforce but 79 per cent and 32 per cent respectively of the temporary workforce . |
| 6 | Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro stock markets showed record index gains of 36 per cent and 32 per cent respectively on Feb. 4 as individuals transferred money from bank accounts in response to the abolition of the indexation on savings and certificates of deposits . |
| 7 | Corresponding proportions for other children were 47 per cent and 14 per cent . |
| 8 | Just one quarter of Britain 's robots were made in the UK ; 37 per cent came from the rest of Europe while 24 per cent and 14 per cent owe their origins to the US and Japan . |
| 9 | Between 1961 and 1985 men and women aged 65 — 74 years have recorded life expectancy increases of 11 per cent and 14 per cent respectively ; for those aged 85 + the increases are 8 per cent for men and 20 per cent for women . |
| 10 | Discounting Project A by 8 per cent and 14 per cent produces this result : whereby an 8 per cent discount factor produces a negative NPV of £2,025 and a 14 per cent discount factor produces a positive NPV of £2,515 . |
| 11 | For art galleries the figures are 50 per cent and 16 per cent , for classical music 32 per cent and 8 per cent . |
| 12 | The usual death rate was more than 50 per cent of those affected , but with homoeopathic treatment it was usually between 5 per cent and 16 per cent . |
| 13 | A three-year follow up of a sample of elderly ( aged 65 + ) in Liverpool revealed that 44 per cent of women and 40 per cent of men defined as having organic brain disorders had died , compared with 11 per cent and 16 per cent of the well population . |
| 14 | Because of the increase in low parity births to remarried women , these proportions had converged by 1987 , to 15 per cent and 16 per cent respectively . |
| 15 | The number of factors with an eigen value of more than one was the same ( 5 ) , the proportion of the variance accounted for was very similar ( 56 per cent and 58 per cent , respectively ) . |
| 16 | People are living longer , and a greater proportion of the population in 1984 consists of older people ( 11.3 per cent aged over 65 in the United States and 14.8 per cent in Britain ) than it did in 1945 ( 7.5 per cent and 10.1 per cent in the United States and Britain , respectively ) . |
| 17 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 18 | Of the company 's remaining operations : clinical laboratories saw the greatest profit and sales rises , at 26 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |
| 19 | Almost half of these funds allocated within the Community were used in Italy , with France and the UK obtaining 15 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |
| 20 | ( 1983 ) and using an explicitly comparable methodology produced rates of depressive illness of 12.4 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |
| 21 | Industrial production and retail sales had both surged , at a rate of 13.7 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |
| 22 | This compared to 16 per cent and 13 per cent of those going to live with low EE relatives . |
| 23 | In the Liverpool study the depression prevalence for women was 13.6 per cent and 7.6 per cent for men ( Copeland et al . |
| 24 | The corresponding results for the sentence completion task were sixty-five per cent and eighty-three per cent . |
| 25 | For male manual workers the proportion was 30.4 per cent in 1968 and 35.9 per cent in 1979 ; for women the corresponding proportions were 31.0 per cent and 38.3 per cent respectively . |
| 26 | The corresponding percentages for medium-sized corporates were 68 per cent and 18 per cent respectively and for smaller firms 54 and 38.5 per cent respectively . ’ |
| 27 | These loans , at rates varying between 10 per cent and 18 per cent , were useful for helping the Crown over its successive liquidity crises , but , since none was for more than twelve months and some were for less , they failed to lighten the Crown 's burden in the long run . |
| 28 | Foreign trade turnover was up 4.7 per cent overall ; that with socialist countries fell slightly but exports to and imports from the industrialized West rose 7.6 per cent and 23.6 per cent respectively , to 26,000 million and 26,800 million roubles . |
| 29 | In 1985 7 per cent of those aged 65 + were receiving home help services and 3 per cent home meals ; this compares with 5 per cent and 1 per cent respectively in 1972 . |
| 30 | Kestenbaum ( 1980 ) quotes the lifetime risk of developing the disorder as between 0.8 per cent and 1 per cent in the general population , which rises to 13 per cent for a child with one schizophrenic parent , and to 3540 per cent for a child with two schizophrenic parents . |