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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Among ’ industrial nations the rise was only 4.5 per cent , up from 3.4 per cent in 1988 . |
| 7 | ( 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Although voting was compulsory , the turnout was only 77 per cent , widely considered by observers an indication of voters ' " election fatigue " . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | But it was only 8 per cent of gravity just above the bearings , and 16 per cent at the roof . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In March 1989 a set of directives on economic relations between the USSR and its constituent republics was published , which called for the transfer of up to 36 per cent of industrial production to local control ( the existing figure was only 5 per cent ) , with much higher levels — up to 72 per cent — in Georgia and the Baltic republics . |
| 22 | The value of agricultural exports increased by 14.5 per cent in 1988 , even though the volume was only 5 per cent up , mainly as a result of drought-induced shortages . |
| 23 | In contrast , growth in R&D spending between 1990 and 1991 was only 5 per cent , largely as a result of a rationalization of research on agrochemicals . |
| 24 | He claimed that the actual increase in numbers of cases granted legal aid was only 5 per cent this year — from 271,759 to 288,000 — and cited a Scottish Office report on spending plans which forecast a peak in claims in 1992-93 , followed by a decline . |
| 25 | If senior management figures are considered , about three per cent ( 52 out of 1000 ) are women ; five years ago the figure was only one per cent . |
| 26 | The results of these calculations indicated that the mean level of performance was only 38 per cent — i.e. actual performance divided by potential performance was only 0.38 . |
| 27 | In Russia , for example , as late as 1914 the urban population was only 18 per cent of the total . |
| 28 | In 1923 , some 25 per cent of the films shown to the trade were British ; the following year it was only five per cent . |
| 29 | However , with voting taking place during a severe heatwave , the turnout was only 55.5 per cent of the electorate of some 5,000,000 , compared with 71 per cent in 1986 . |
| 30 | It was only 0.27 per cent . |