Example sentences of "at only [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue damaged his Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) government , however , to the extent that opinion polls in late February put support for the government at only 41 per cent , the lowest figure recorded since Kaifu took office in August 1989 . |
| 2 | Redundancy and dismissal were , not surprisingly , the most important reasons for job loss , but one survey found as much as one in five people who entered into unemployment did so after finishing a temporary job , whilst another put the proportion at only six per cent . |
| 3 | One way to reconcile the results was to assume that monopoles move relatively slowly , at only 0.1 per cent the velocity of light or less . |
| 4 | The Front blamed the state of emergency for a low turnout in Baku on Sept. 30 ( estimated at only 52 per cent , compared with 81 per cent throughout Azerbaijan ) . |
| 5 | Certainly US inflation subsequently had been extremely low ; between 1952 and 1967 the US wholesale price index rose at only 0.8 per cent a year . |
| 6 | Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads . |
| 7 | Full results were not due until the autumn of 1990 , but first figures showed an average population growth of 9.3 per cent over 10 years , with the Central Asian republics growing fastest ( 22-34 per cent ) and the Russian Republic ( with 51.4 per cent of the total population ) at only 7 per cent . |
| 8 | Fuel stocks at power stations were at only 60 per cent of requirements . |
| 9 | Bargain-hunting foreign funds were held responsible ; many top domestic companies , especially state-owned ones intended for privatization , were priced on average at only 35 per cent of their estimated book value . |
| 10 | In a turnout recorded at only 23 per cent , the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDH ) led by Martin Lee [ see p. 37376 ; 37672 ] emerged as the largest single grouping . |
| 11 | Moreover , unemployment benefit is paid at a lower rate , and , for a married couple , is valued at only 54 per cent of the level of the pension paid to a retired couple . |
| 12 | The project has now been cancelled , despite continuing support from local politicians , due both to lack of funds and studies which showed that it would operate at only 25 per cent of capacity in winter , when electricity demand is highest . |
| 13 | The dams have provided people and industry in the Pacific Northwest with clean , abundant power at only 40 per cent of the cost of electricity in most other US states . |
| 14 | Another concern was the exceptionally low turnout , estimated at only 21.09 per cent over both rounds . |
| 15 | The turnout , officially recorded at only 28 per cent of the electorate of 13,170,000 , was the lowest ever in any Indian state election , below even that for Jammu and Kashmir in 1987 ( 31.6 per cent ) . |
| 16 | In this recession , it is peaking at only 43 per cent . |
| 17 | The bonus payment differential though is much larger at only 43 per cent and 22 per cent of the sums paid in large firms . |
| 18 | Clearly the legacy of the war was a huge current account deficit , with exports in 1945 at only 30 per cent of their prewar level ( imports 60 per cent ) , and shipping earnings substantially diminished . |
| 19 | But even Ogonyok , considered the most chic and sought-after of the progressive press , is running at only 50 per cent of 1989 levels . |