Example sentences of "cent [conj] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his first address to the UN since taking office , United States President George Bush on Sept. 25 made proposals for cuts in chemical weapons , saying that the United States would begin elimination of 60 per cent or 98 per cent of its chemical weapons respectively , provided the Soviet Union cut its own stockpile to an equal level or eliminated it completely ; and that the USA would destroy all its chemical weapons within 10 years if the countries capable of producing such weapons signed a total ban treaty . |
| 2 | The minimum price movement ( or tick size ) on a ST3 contract is one basis point ( i.e. 1/100 of l per cent or 0.01 per cent ) : . |
| 3 | Following on from this , a debtor-creditor agreement will be exempted if the annual percentage rate does not exceed the higher of either 13 per cent or 1 per cent more than the base rates of lending banks . |
| 4 | Once again , investors who put in their minimum £5,000 , will get 90 per cent or 95 per cent of any increase in the value of the top 100 companies in the portfolio . |
| 5 | Data from a large sample will show the earliest age at which a child would be expected to gain control of a particular aspect of language , and the age by which 90 per cent or 95 per cent of non-handicapped children might be expected to show evidence of the same ability . |
| 6 | The prospectus offered investors a return of either 18 per cent , 34 per cent or 45 per cent over a three-year period , depending on the accuracy of the sales projections , based on the RSGB figures , with all the appropriate caveats cautiously attached . |
| 7 | Then a list of possible new schemes dear to committee members ' hearts is added and a list of possible economies and cuts , 1 per cent , 5 per cent or 10 per cent in total . |
| 8 | OK , give it ten years and perhaps only 20 per cent will be producing what 60 per cent or 70 per cent were twenty-five years ago . |
| 9 | On average , a body is injected with approximately 12–16 pints of the one and a half per cent or two per cent solution and this takes place over a time period of approximately one to two hours . |
| 10 | Joe Sharp , director of space research at NASA 's Ames Research Laboratory explains : ‘ Nobody has the foggiest idea of the effect of even 40 per cent or 20 per cent of gravity for extended periods . ’ |
| 11 | However , if a double page spread ( DPS ) is 75 per cent more expensive than a single page , or a 40-second TV spot is 33 per cent more expensive than a 30-second spot , is the resulting ad going to be 75 per cent or 33 per cent more effective ? |
| 12 | The important point is this : whether or not Kingfisher-plus-Dixons would have a market share of 26 per cent or 22 per cent , a successful takeover would give a single company a large and powerful share of electrical retailing . |
| 13 | Exposed for a long time to moist , saturated , air timber might settle down to a moisture content of 22 per cent or 23 per cent . |
| 14 | I made , I think , a 2 per cent or 3 per cent error over the whole test . |
| 15 | Corporation tax on capital gains made by companies will be charged as income at the normal corporation tax rate ( 35 per cent or 29 per cent ) . |
| 16 | This can be an advantage for that reason , particularly if the bidder already owns a significant number of shares in the target which will reduce the pool of shares in respect of which the 75 per cent or 90 per cent threshold must be achieved . |
| 17 | These changes again work to the advantage of the better-off , but a change which has the opposite effect is the replacement of the flat rate tax of 30 per cent with the individual 's top rate of tax ( either 25 per cent or 40 per cent ) . |
| 18 | In addition , any company intent on controlling expenditure should be examining how much it should be laying off risk in this way when , as Drew Hardie , divisional director of Willis Corroon in Edinburgh , points out , ‘ insurance is a cost-plus product with a substantial proportion of premiums — say , 30 per cent or 40 per cent — used by insurers to meet their own overheads ’ . |
| 19 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 20 | If forced to be more exact , I think I would put the figure a little closer to 20 per cent than 30 per cent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Scheduled and charter passenger throughout rose by five per cent and 11 per cent respectively to over 260,000 and 675,000 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Corresponding proportions for other children were 47 per cent and 14 per cent . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |