Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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1 | In the statistical period , 1978–81 , losses continued to be greatest in Scotland , the North and Wales ; they were only 4 per cent in Yorkshire and 2 per cent in the East Midlands . |
2 | However , the early surveys of the Government Actuary 's department show that in the private sector in 1956 there were only 34 per cent of ‘ salaried ’ women ( 71 per cent of men ) and 23 per cent of ‘ waged ’ women ( 38 per cent of men ) in schemes ( Government Actuary , 1958 , p. 4 ) . |
3 | By mid-September , according to figures released yesterday , subscriptions to Izvestia , the government daily , which now sells close to 11 million copies , were only 61 per cent of the level 12 months before . |
4 | When sales of unleaded were only 16 per cent of all fuel revenue in Britain , Germany was leading the field with a figure of 53 per cent ; in Denmark the percentage was 34 and in Norway 27 . |
5 | Weekly earnings in 1812 were only 16 per cent above their 1793 level , although they had been 25 per cent higher in 1808 . |
6 | London salaries were only 11 per cent above average , with executive salaries in Yorkshire , Humberside and the East Midlands 5 per cent below average , showing much less of a regional difference than is often assumed . |
7 | There were only thirteen per cent more cattle theft cases in the Central Province during the height of the downturn than during the years immediately preceding and following it . |
8 | In 1961 28 per cent of first-time marriages involved teenage brides ( women under 20 years ) whereas there were only 14 per cent in 1986 . |
9 | Suppose that interest rates in Italy are higher by 2 per cent than in the UK and at the same time the necessary discount applied to the spot rate were only 1 per cent . |
10 | If the discount applied to the lire were only 1 per cent as suggested above , then clearly it would be possible to gain over all by earning an extra 2 per cent on the lire deposit and accept that this would be reduced by 1 per cent as the cost of forward cover , making a 1 per cent gain overall in comparison with staying in sterling and importantly be fully hedged . |
11 | At that time , miners ' wages were only 60 per cent . |
12 | The most extreme difference occurred between open class items and affixes. 96 per cent of errors in the production of open class items were substitution errors , and only 4 per cent loss or addition errors , whereas for affixes there were only 24 per cent substitution errors but 76 per cent loss and addition errors . |
13 | The sales of the largest 100 US firms were nearly double the sales of the largest 100 non-US firm in 1962 ; in 1972 they were only 40 per cent more . |
14 | In fact , in Tanzania in 1984 farmgate prices for a mix of agricultural products using estimated market exchange rates were only 20 per cent of export prices . |
15 | Motorcyclist casualties in 1992 were down 13 per cent with deaths falling 16 per cent and serious injuries down 14 per cent . |
16 | JULY car sales were down 8 per cent . |
17 | In the latest three months the volume overall sales were down 1 per cent with the steepest falls registered by retailers of clothing and footwear , down 5 per cent and household goods , 4 per cent . |
18 | Total on-trade beer sales were down eight per cent as a result of the recession , with nablabs having fallen by 20 per cent . |
19 | Imports of passenger cars over the three months rose only two per cent by volume , whilst imports of capital goods were down six per cent . |
20 | In Sterling terms , however , sales were down 4 per cent ( Stg£191.4 million against Stg£200.1 million for 1991 ) . |
21 | David Gockley reports that corporate contributions , an essential ingredient of his budget , were down 30 per cent this year ; obviously , another year or two like that and the HGO will be in desperate straits . |
22 | By 1984 the number of airlines had risen from 36 to 120 , fares were down 30 per cent , and passengers use was up 50 per cent . |
23 | They were down 15 per cent on March last year . |
24 | With Jaguar revealing more misery in the US where September sales were down 19.1 per cent year on the year , the company needs the takeover interest to keep its share price alive . |
25 | I mean , it 's like like Colin and I , I mean , like we 're happy but then , no were not hundred per cent happy at all , But like , er , like some people I ca n't if you get upset , some people eat more , some people eat less , or you know , some go into recluse , some get and like Colin , |
26 | In the year to August , sales were just 1.2 per cent above a year ago . |
27 | In East London where poverty was most heavily concentrated the figures were respectively 35 per cent and 13.3 per cent |
28 | It found that people in the most polluted of the six cities were still 26 per cent more likely to die than those in the least polluted city . |
29 | But , in 1984 , by the end of the relocation programme , house prices in the Corby area were still 15 per cent less than in the South East . |
30 | In very difficult trading circumstances , footwear exports in the past 12 months were up 11 per cent . |