Example sentences of "about 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 Under the scheme , successful claimants would pay about 10 per cent of their winnings to a central fund which would meet the costs of unsuccessful claims .
2 For executives below board level the median increase was about 10 per cent .
3 A lead-only second-hand car is now worth about 10 per cent less than an unleaded equivalent .
4 While prices were forcast to fall by about 10 per cent on average next year , a slow decline in interest rates over the next 12 months was seen as prompting a resurgence the following spring .
5 Brooks Marketing , which owns the Burke 's franchise , is offering about 10 per cent of its equity in return for £150,000 .
6 Levels of lending , in which property companies represented about 10 per cent of total loan exposure to UK residents , did not present a ‘ major ’ supervisory anxiety , he said .
7 After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ?
8 So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’
9 About 10 per cent of solicitors — around 6,000 — might want to conduct cases in the higher courts , Mr David Ward , president of the Law Society , has estimated .
10 Ethnic minority groups account for 3.9 per cent of the economically-active working age population in Britain and about 10 per cent in London .
11 Catalysts are expected to cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars to about 10 per cent by 1989 levels by the year 2006 .
12 The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell .
13 The context within which the General Strike occurred was one in which the Baldwin government had returned to the gold standard and within which employers in exporting countries were faced with the need to reduce costs , and thus wages , by about 10 per cent .
14 ‘ We do have a bit of indie in us , it 's about 10 per cent indie , 90 per cent dance .
15 ‘ They were losing about 10 per cent of their profit by not claiming back the tax , and no Japanese businessman does that . ’
16 About 10 per cent of his patients have joined the Denplan Care scheme .
17 The secularisation of Holy Week and Easter now seems complete except for a faithful remnant of practising Christians — about 10 per cent of the population on most calculations .
18 Having consolidated his base , he launched an aggressive drive that led to the take-over of Newcastle Breweries and several smaller Edinburgh companies to form Scottish & Newcastle , which by the time he retired as chairman in 1969 was supplying about 10 per cent of British beer sales .
19 Husbands or wives were seen about 36 per cent of the 639 , other relatives about 43 per cent , friends or neighbours about 10 per cent , staff of institutions about 10 per cent and other officials about one per cent .
20 Husbands or wives were seen about 36 per cent of the 639 , other relatives about 43 per cent , friends or neighbours about 10 per cent , staff of institutions about 10 per cent and other officials about one per cent .
21 The new company , which will be called Chiron , will have 1500 employees , although a reduction of about 10 per cent of the workforce is expected early in 1992 .
22 Duodenal ulcers are more common than gastric ulcers in the UK where about 10 per cent of the population have ulcers or ulcer scars .
23 As an index of this environmental richness , Figure 5 shows the distribution of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in these islands ( see appendix ) ; a land designation that is about 10 per cent of the total area .
24 Morainic drift with a typical hummocky landform occupies about 10 per cent of the Outer Hebrides .
25 Here , similar classes were emerging but only about 10 per cent were able to employ wage labour regularly and only 20 per cent provided it regularly .
26 Experiments to test QCD give results with an error of about 10 per cent .
27 Only about 10 per cent of respondents favoured a return .
28 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 .
29 As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken .
30 Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records .
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