Example sentences of "only a [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively stable performance of the US dollar meant , on the other hand , that any investor operating in dollars would have realized only a 3.0 per cent loss on a US share portfolio , and a gain of 8.1 per cent in the UK market or of 79.3 per cent in Mexico . |
| 2 | Over that period there has been only a 10 per cent . |
| 3 | Mr Hayward detected a glimmer of hope in the fact that the rate of increase in liquidations had slowed down , with only a 3.5 per cent rise in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 4 | Nick Harvey , a professional lobbyist , needs only a four per cent swing to take a seat held by Jeremy Thorpe for many years , where Liberal traditions are still strong . |
| 5 | Plymouth Drake : tough fight for Dame Janet Fookes in seat that used to be one of most marginal in Britain ; though Lib Dem Val Cox needs only a four per cent swing , Labour barrister Peter Telford has best hopes . |
| 6 | Neil Arnold , chief executive of the North-Eastern Co-Op , said : ‘ We have 100,000 members in the Middlesbrough area , but only a four per cent market share . |
| 7 | During 13 years ' rule by the party of law and order the police have had only a five per cent increase in manpower . |
| 8 | Minor changes in meat grading have occurred , leading to higher prices for leaner meats , but this has resulted in only a five per cent swing towards leaner meat reaching the market . |
| 9 | Liberal Democrat Mr Don Foster , a former leader of the Alliance group on Avon county council , needs only a 1.4 per cent swing to wipe out Mr Patten 's 1,412 majority after his 13 years as the constituency 's MP . |
| 10 | LVMH added £30m to the £246m pre-tax profits Guinness announced yesterday for the period to 30 June , when only a 16 per cent stake was accounted for . |
| 11 | The two extremes were represented by ‘ urban ’ Thetford , with only a 5.4 per cent unemployment rate , compared with 14.6 per cent in rural Cromer ( Packman 1979 ) . |
| 12 | But it has been calculated that there is only a 4 per cent chance of dying if bitten by one of them . |
| 13 | But Labour — while winning a net 39 seats — achieved only a 2.1 per cent swing , well short of the eight per cent needed to achieve outright victory . |
| 14 | To their growing alarm , the £10.5 billion revenues that Koch Industries were earning from oil trading , refining , piping and ranching were yielding only a one per cent return to shareholders . |
| 15 | But , as Nigel Haigh of the IEEP has pointed out , even if 1970 ( the year of peak emissions ) was taken as a baseline , the UK would achieve only a 44 per cent reduction as against 80 per cent for the Netherlands , 56 per cent for West Germany and 50 per cent for Belgium . |
| 16 | Without the abortion I 'd only a ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 17 | The organizers claimed that 700,000 people had voted , representing nearly half of Latvia 's ethnic Latvians ( now only a 53 per cent majority in their republic ) . |
| 18 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 19 | ( According to the Finance Ministry , inflation had risen 640 per cent between 1988-1989 , with only a 0.2 per cent growth rate as against 4.1 per cent for 1987-88 . ) |
| 20 | The Directive gave the UK something of a ‘ soft landing ’ , with only a 20 per cent cut on 1980 emissions required by 1993 , and just 60 per cent by 2003 . |
| 21 | ‘ We have only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding world catastrophe ’ , he told us . |
| 22 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , there was only a 50 per cent success rate — the experiment went off half-cocked . |
| 24 | Mr Geoff Woolf , Natfhe general secretary , said the offer amounted to only a 4.67 per cent increase with strings for the year to January . |
| 25 | They received only a 40 per cent stake in a new international oil consortium to handle Iranian oil ( although there were other compensations ) . |
| 26 | Given a two-choice array , there is a 50 per cent possibility of a correct response occurring by chance , while with a four-choice array there is only a 25 per cent chance of a random response being correct . |
| 27 | Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman have a serious look at capital allowances , especially for plant and machinery , which should not have only a 25 per cent . |
| 28 | As for cars , a study of twenty-five countries concluded that a 10 per cent fuel price increase produced only a 3 per cent improvement in fuel economy . |
| 29 | The Soviet President , whose domestic popularity had plummeted to the extent that opinion polls currently gave him only a 19 per cent approval rating , said that the award was a " recognition of our perestroika " . |
| 30 | Two whole racks of lamb cooked out to just pink perfection in under 15 minutes and gave a markedly superior eating quality , and a best method for roasting a 4lb boned lamb averaged out over all tests with remarkably only an 8 per cent weight loss . |