Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stabilized at 1970 prices , they calculated public sector capital expenditure at 5. 1 per cent of GNP in 1966 but only 3.0 per cent of GNP in 1980 . |
| 2 | They found that it was used in 40 per cent of development projects but only 16 per cent of research projects , and then mainly in large , complex projects costing over $500 000 . |
| 3 | They found that it was used in 40 per cent of development projects but only 16 per cent of research projects , and then mainly in large , complex projects costing over $500 000 . |
| 4 | A quarter of men owned shares but only 17 per cent of women ; 29 per cent of people aged 45-54 and 30 per cent of those aged 55-64 had shares , but only 18 per cent of those aged 25-34 . |
| 5 | Unionists held 54 per cent of the English seats , but only 18 per cent of the rest , and this severely limited the recovery from 1906 . |
| 6 | Two-thirds of their sample thought they could obtain their preferred type of job within 24 miles of home , but only 18 per cent were willing to travel this distance daily . |
| 7 | Some 95 per cent of the UK exports went by sea but only 18 per cent moved in British vessels . |
| 8 | Company brochures on Courtaulds pie , the leading private corporation for job losses with 23,200 at Table 5.7 ( above ) , showed that while it had 300 textile and other plants spread across the UK in 1976 , by 1981 this stock fell by 20 per cent in ‘ assisted areas ’ but only 5 per cent in non-assisted areas . |
| 9 | A quarter consider it very worthwhile and almost another half consider it to be fairly , a quarter found it to be not very but only 5 per cent thought it was not at all worthwhile . |
| 10 | Lung cancer kills 13 per cent of men who die between 55 and 64 in the EC countries , but only 5 per cent of women . |
| 11 | But only four per cent of Oscars have been won in musicals or westerns . |
| 12 | In the Senate , meanwhile , the Democrats held all the seats in the South in 1960 but only 68 per cent by 1972 . |
| 13 | The type is basically as described for the Ayrshire of Scotland and average milk yields are about 5,800kg at 4.4 per cent butterfat ( the Finnish Friesian averages similar yields but only 4.1 per cent butterfat ) . |
| 14 | Married and non-married couple households differ in their housing types : in 1981 , 65 per cent of married couple households were owner-occupiers , but only 45 per cent of the others ( 1981 Census : Housing and Households , Table 15 ) . |
| 15 | A quarter of men owned shares but only 17 per cent of women ; 29 per cent of people aged 45-54 and 30 per cent of those aged 55-64 had shares , but only 18 per cent of those aged 25-34 . |
| 16 | But only 62 per cent responded , and half wanted the option of staying women subscribers . |
| 17 | For example , 30 per cent of the jobs in Dudley are professional , but only 7 per cent of those in Wellingborough ( Northants ) . |
| 18 | Around 27 per cent of adults in Brighton , for instance , saw a London evening paper in 1963 , but only 7 per cent did in 1975 . |
| 19 | By 1987 34 per cent of full-time private sector women were covered but only 7 per cent of part-timers ( Government Actuary , 1991 , Table 2.4 , p. 6 ) . |
| 20 | Shelter 's research has found up to half of all homeless young people in Scotland had been in care , but only 34 per cent of district councils categorise them as vulnerable . |
| 21 | In December 1989 Greenpeace consultants suggested that by 1993 power station emissions would again reach 1980 levels and overall emissions would fall not 22 per cent as the government predicted , but only 10 per cent . |
| 22 | Many sixth-formers , of course , left a maintained school to go on to universities , but only 10 per cent of these went to Oxford or Cambridge , compared with nearly half of the university-bound sixth-formers from the Public Schools . |
| 23 | Notice that 16.1 per cent of the male labour force was recorded as unemployed in April 1985 , but only 10 per cent of the female labour force was so recorded . |
| 24 | Approximately 20 per cent of subjects reported that they would be pleased to enter a private/public sector home , but only 10 per cent favoured the geriatric hospital . |
| 25 | There are around three million players in Britain , but only 10 per cent of these are actually affiliated to a club and around 10 per cent of the club members are actually rated . |
| 26 | Thus by the last fortnight of the campaign , our regressions explained 59 per cent of the variation in Thatcher images but only 11 per cent of the variation in Alliance images ( Tables 8.1 , 8.2 , 8.3 ) . |
| 27 | Historical estimates of Table 3.2 indicate most firmly the decline in the relative importance of the Primary sector , which provided nearly a quarter of all jobs in 1841 but only 4 per cent by 1961 . |
| 28 | They made up 16 per cent of conversion students but only 4 per cent of those studying on specialist IT courses . |
| 29 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 30 | Among families of West Indian origin as many as 49 per cent are lone-parent families , as are 30 per cent of African families but only 6 per cent of Indian and 8 per cent of Pakistani families . |