Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 and eventually zero per cent .
2 About one-fifth comes from sewage treatment plants , and perhaps 9 per cent escapes from bottom sediments .
3 And only eight per cent of those that did had engaged a lawyer to speak for them ‘ even though , where defendants are represented , they are more likely to receive a favourable outcome . ’
4 The residents overwhelmingly support the restructuring , with 82 per cent regarding their residential situation as better or somewhat better than before and only eight per cent feeling that it is worse .
5 On 67 per cent of the farms there was no primary school , and only 5 per cent had adult literacy classes , of which only one-third were judged to be satisfactory .
6 Coal fell into disfavour on the grounds that steam engines are noisy , polluting and only 5 per cent efficient .
7 A survey of married owner-occupier couples in 1971 found that 42 per cent had the home in the husband 's name , and only 5 per cent in the wife 's name , the remainder being joint mortgages ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ) .
8 For instance , of the estimated 2,100 regular opioid users in Camden and Islington in 1983 , about 70 per cent were aged 25 years or older , and only 5 per cent were aged between 16 and 19 years .
9 In 1958 , according to the same calculations , the Soviet Union influenced 31 per cent of the world 's population and 9 per cent of the world 's GNP ( excluding the USSR itself ) ; by 1979 the USSR influenced only 6 per cent of the world 's population and only 5 per cent of the world 's GNP , again excluding the USSR itself .
10 It won some 70 per cent of the vote , compared with 20 per cent for the Liberal Party ( which had previously held the seat ) and only 5 per cent for the ruling Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) .
11 The degree of involvement in the reviews has generally been high , nearly half the teachers feeling very involved , a further third fairly involved , and only 5 per cent feeling not involved at all .
12 He discovered that 48 per cent of them first heard about the riot from another person , 27 per cent by direct observation and only 26 per cent from media coverage .
13 Aserinsky and Kleitman in 1953 and Dement and Kleitman in 1957 noted 74 and 79 per cent reports from REM sleep awakenings respectively , and only 7 per cent reports from non-REM sleep awakenings , indicating a virtually perfect isomerism between the experience of dreaming and a well-defined Psychophysiological pattern .
14 The economy has a weak base , and only 7 per cent of the land is cultivated , most being under rough grazing ( Turnock 1974 ) .
15 Those under 17 years of age will not be eligible ; also very few women over the age of 65 ( possibly only 4 per cent ) and only 7 per cent of women in skilled and unskilled manual occupations have their own cars .
16 An investigation of 300 boxmakers in 1915 ( of whom 78 per cent were married women and 16 per cent widowed ) found that one-third were totally dependent on their earnings , one-third partly dependent , and one-third worked only for ‘ pin money ’ ; but a much larger study of Birmingham workers in 1906 had found that 52 per cent of outworkers ( a category including those employed in small workshops and homeworkers ) were married with husbands earning small or irregular wages , 46 per cent were widows or deserted wives and only 0.4 per cent worked for pocket money .
17 Almost half are over 70 and only 13 per cent are under 50 .
18 In a Gallup Poll survey conducted for Sidhartha Films Ltd of nearly 1000 people aged over 60 , 78 per cent agreed with the statement ‘ I never think of myself as old ’ , and only 14 per cent disagreed .
19 Despite the many grumbles and adverse comments , 70 per cent of all employers interviewed claimed to have been satisfied with the standard of work of young people taken on by them in the previous two years , and only 14 per cent expressed dissatisfaction .
20 The latest government figures — unpublished as yet — show causes of serious pollution in 1982 as 60 per cent agricultural , 22 per cent urban sewage and only 18 per cent industrial .
21 In 1986 the European market for value-added network services was worth $900 million — with over 60 per cent of this in the two most deregulated larger markets , Britain and France , and only 16 per cent in West Germany and Italy combined . ’
22 More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job .
23 There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job .
24 Twenty-nine per cent of unmarried women in the 45–64 age group were carers , according to the 1985 GHS , compared with 24 per cent of married women and only 16 per cent of men .
25 From 1981 to 1985 , US aid to El Salvador totalled US$1.7 billion , of which some 30 per cent was direct military aid ; 44.1 per cent was economic assistance to prop up El Salvador 's ailing economy , hard hit by the war ; 10.5 per cent was food aid ; and only 15.4 per cent went to development and governmental reform .
26 Reflecting this , something approaching half of personal loans from banks or finance companies were used to buy things costing more than £500 , and only six per cent to buy things costing under £100 .
27 Labour voters have not changed their minds in such high numbers 83pc of them will still vote Labour and only six per cent have switched to the Tories or to the Liberal Democrats .
28 Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people .
29 Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago .
30 Off shallow coasts , 90 per cent of white light is absorbed at 10 metres ( 33 feet ) depth , and only one per cent of white light penetrates below 40 metres ( 130 feet ) .
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