Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The liquidity squeeze ( predicted to affect only 10 per cent of the population directly ) immediately limited withdrawals from interest-bearing money-market accounts ( estimated to total $70,000 million ) to 20 per cent and those from private savings and current accounts to no more than approximately $1,000 . |
| 2 | It is due on stream in 1995 and is expected to meet about 10 per cent of Pakistan 's total current gas consumption . |
| 3 | Government departments were ordered to set aside 10 per cent of their budget to be released only with presidential approval ; spending on all non-infrastructure projects , except schools , hospitals and disaster relief , would be deferred . |
| 4 | The Act also allows President Ramos to negotiate contracts to build new power plants , bypassing the public bidding process , and requires state-owned casinos to give up 10 per cent of their profits over the next five years to the National Power Corporation . |
| 5 | Cheney announced on Feb. 23 , 1990 , during a tour of Japan and the Far East , that the USA intended to withdraw about 10 per cent of the 120,000 US troops currently stationed in Japan , the Philippines and South Korea , over a three-year period starting in 1990 . |
| 6 | Every year he expects to lose around 10 per cent of his lambs . |
| 7 | At the more local scale of the metropolitan districts , the changes expected for Knowsley and Liverpool are as big as -18.2 and -16.1 per cent respectively , while Gateshead and Salford are also projected to lose over 10 per cent of their population in this 16-year period . |
| 8 | What impact the British offer would have on the brain drain , which is expected to push over 10 per cent of the population out of the colony before China 's 1997 takeover , was not clear . |