Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the west ( Kordofan and Darfur ) and the parts of the south for which any figures were available in 1986/87 ( for some areas no figures were available because of the war ) the average pass rate was below 50 per cent . |
| 2 | At the same time the level of grant was steadily reduced for all authorities until it was below 50 per cent of local costs . |
| 3 | These envisaged ( i ) an " interstate compensation fund " to invest in " physical and human capital " in EC states where GDP per capita was below 90 per cent of the EC average ; ( ii ) contributions to the EC budget from member countries based on their " relative prosperity " ; and ( iii ) a relaxation of regional fund regulations to allow states to match EC funding according to their " financial capacity " . |
| 4 | Premium income fell by 1 per cent to £3,423 million and investment income was down 4 per cent to £486 million , mainly as a result of falling interest rates , but underwriting claims reduced . |
| 5 | The International Air Transport Association ( IATA ) reported on June 21 that international passenger traffic was down 13 per cent for the year to April . |
| 6 | Turnover was down 36.5 per cent to $115.9m . |
| 7 | Home demand was down 1.5 per cent , as anticipated . |
| 8 | Export production , at 55,946 , was down 7.2 per cent . |
| 9 | Mr Livingstone 's vote was down 30 per cent compared with last year ; but all other left-wing candidates lost votes , too . |
| 10 | Output during the first 6 months of 1991 was down 22.6 per cent on the same period in 1990 . |
| 11 | While figures for the year showed an increase in real growth of 2.9 per cent , business investment was down 3 per cent , consumer spending down 0.1 per cent and the growth elements appeared only to be in home purchases and government spending . |
| 12 | Finally , specific short-term shortages arose in the early 1970s , the most important being the 1972 crop failures ( when grain output was down 3 per cent on the previous year , against a trend growth rate of 3 per cent a year ) . |
| 13 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |
| 14 | For the whole of Scotland the official percentage of married women in employment was only 4.1 per cent , compared to 9.6 per cent in Great Britain as a whole . |
| 15 | In the third and fourth quarters of 1978 the annualised rate of increase of the Retail Prices Index was only 6.8 per cent and real incomes were rising again following the sharp falls of 1976 and 77 ; unemployment , while still very high by post-war standards , was beginning to fall from its peak in 1977 and job vacancies were on the increase ; the balance of payments current account showed a substantial surplus . |
| 16 | Among ’ industrial nations the rise was only 4.5 per cent , up from 3.4 per cent in 1988 . |
| 17 | ( Except for the Baptists the influx did not lower the trend towards a more educated ministry : the total of all Baptist ministers without any formal higher education was only eighteen per cent by 1901 . |
| 18 | Inflation was only 4.8 per cent , but the pound was in serious trouble at the end of the year , as the bank rate went from 6 per cent to 7 per cent — described as ‘ crisis level ’ . |
| 19 | Indeed , the average flow , as a percentage of GDP , for eight countries in the sample before 1914 was 3.25 per cent a year ; the average flow for ten countries post-1965 was only 1 per cent ( 2 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ The growth in lending in the year to August by Committee of Scottish and London Clearing Banks was only 27 per cent , and for Barclays it was only 10 per cent , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Although voting was compulsory , the turnout was only 77 per cent , widely considered by observers an indication of voters ' " election fatigue " . |
| 22 | Then , in obvious reference to arch-rival Francois Boutin 's post-race comments concerning Arazi last week , Fabre said with a mischievious grin : ‘ Lion Cavern was only 62 per cent fit today . ’ |
| 23 | The strong economic performance of 1989 , when gross domestic product ( GDP ) grew in real terms by 4.5 per cent , continued into the first half of 1990 but began to slow down thereafter ; GDP growth for the year was only 3.5 per cent . |
| 24 | Whereas in Scotland over 36 per cent of graduates obtained a pass , ordinary or general degree in 1986 , the figure for the UK as a whole was only 12.7 per cent , with the majority of pass degrees in England being in the fields of medicine , dentistry or veterinary science ( Source : USR ) . |
| 25 | IN eastern Dartmoor , which is under strong developmental pressure , the refusal rate was 55 per cent , while in western Exmoor , an area of population decline , the refusal rate was only 42 per cent ( table 7.1 ) . |
| 26 | But it was only 8 per cent of gravity just above the bearings , and 16 per cent at the roof . |
| 27 | For example , one-quarter of women aged 16–34 getting married in the period 1979–82 lived with their husbands before marriage , while the corresponding proportion for those married between 1970 and 1974 was only 8 per cent . |
| 28 | ‘ The growth in lending in the year to August by Committee of Scottish and London Clearing Banks was only 27 per cent , and for Barclays it was only 10 per cent , ’ she said . |
| 29 | In early modern England the proportion of solitary 65-year-olds was only 10 per cent , while in the mid-nineteenth century it came as low as 7.5 . |
| 30 | In fact , so vital are the French nutcrackers to the French walnut industry that in 1981 , when the crop in the south-west was only 5 per cent of the normal crop , nuts in their shells were imported from California and India to keep the crackers going . |