Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent .
2 Ershad 's Jatiya Party won over 10 per cent of the seats , including that won by Ershad himself ( who was under arrest and facing serious corruption charges ) in his home district of Rangpur .
3 Full-time married women workers formed about 10 per cent of the labour force between 1911 and the outbreak of World War II , and the experience of these women will be considered in Part II .
4 The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt .
5 The annual report of the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) , released on Dec. 19 , showed that poor countries spent an average 12 per cent of their budgets on health and education , while rich countries allocated only 10 per cent of their aid to these sectors in the developing world .
6 Certainly , the Palestinian Arabs can reflect that when Roberts drew Jerusalem , the Jewish population of the land can have numbered scarcely 10 per cent of the total .
7 Levels of lending , in which property companies represented about 10 per cent of total loan exposure to UK residents , did not present a ‘ major ’ supervisory anxiety , he said .
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