Example sentences of "and [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the organisation of their work was concerned , only four said that they spent all their time with the ‘ named ’ child , half worked with other special needs children or undertook general duties and 92 per cent said they also worked with normal children . |
| 2 | The vast majority of children , however , are educated in state schools — at least 93 per cent of primary children and 92 per cent of secondary children . |
| 3 | A survey by Living Magazine ( 14.8.89 ) which questioned 1,000 women , found that one-third had received obscene phone calls in the last year , 20 per cent of this group more than once , yet only 26 per cent had told the police , 13 per cent had been interfered with and 87 per cent of these kept silent ; 9 per cent had suffered indecent exposure and 92 per cent failed to report this . |
| 4 | Three-quarters said its design appealed to them and 92 per cent found it easy to read . |
| 5 | The four ‘ little tigers ’ — Hong Kong , Singapore , Taiwan and Korea — have growth rates which , at between eight and eleven per cent , are more than double those for most of the rest of the world . |
| 6 | Speakers in this category were numbers 1 , 3 , 4 and 5 who were on average correctly identified 36.4 per cent of the time by the " black " group and 17.2 per cent of the time by the " white " group . |
| 7 | It was topped with a slice of ham , a layer of plastic cheese and served with pickled onions and chips , the latter being of the fifty-fifty variety , that is : fifty per cent potato and fifty per cent grease . |
| 8 | Malays made up between forty and fifty per cent of sergeants . |
| 9 | The total amount of time taken up in such social exchanges or interactions in this sample is in fact relatively small : a division of housewives into three groups according to the proportion of work time thus occupied — less than twenty-five per cent , between twenty-five and fifty per cent , more than fifty per cent — revealed the majority of women to be in the first group ; there was no significant relationship with work satisfaction patterns . |
| 10 | All new keyboards of composing machines were to be operated by male union labour , and fifty per cent of upmaking and correction on keyboard material was to be done by men . |
| 11 | Yes er I think we 're just slightly different again er Chairman inasmuch that the British Steel Pension Scheme at the moment has fifty ce fifty per cent employer er trustees and fifty per cent nominated trade union trustees . |
| 12 | The report revealed that not only do a lot of students want to leave university before they graduate , but ninety per cent have problems with the volume of work and fifty per cent experienced excess pressure at exam time . |
| 13 | According to a recent survey , 35–45 per cent of British adults are overweight and 8–12 per cent are very overweight . |
| 14 | Exports had risen by 150 per cent from Germany and 180 per cent from Italy but only 28 per cent from Britain . |
| 15 | After 20 years of continuous service workers record a growth in wages of 150 per cent in small and 180 per cent in large firms compared to 52 per cent and 30 per cent in the US . |
| 16 | BP is to obtain Conoco 's 20 per cent interest in the BP-operated block 21/15a and 30.1076 per cent in the 21/15a sub area . |
| 17 | For male manual workers the proportion was 30.4 per cent in 1968 and 35.9 per cent in 1979 ; for women the corresponding proportions were 31.0 per cent and 38.3 per cent respectively . |
| 18 | Of the residents who voted 53.4 per cent were for closure and 46.6 per cent in favour of keeping it open . |
| 19 | Notably , the Communist Party ( CPSU ) newspaper Pravda on April 29 gave a devastating assessment of the state of the economy , based on statistics for the first quarter of 1990 which showed falls of 1.0 per cent in gross national product and 1.2 per cent in industrial productivity ; an inflation rate in the consumer sector of 8.0 per cent ( but featuring increases in food prices of up to 20 per cent ) ; and a balance-of-trade deficit of 1,700 million roubles ( approximately US$2,800 million ) . |
| 20 | The devaluation and the cuts in subsidies resulted in price rises of between 100 and 120 per cent . |
| 21 | Growth in Germany and Japan next year is expected to be 3.2 per cent and 4.5 per cent respectively . |
| 22 | Gilbert and Ward found that renters made up 36.4 per cent of their sample of inhabitants of spontaneous housing settlements in Bogota , 12.7 per cent of those in Mexico City and 4.5 per cent in Valencia ( Gilbert and Ward 1985 ) . |
| 23 | Some 30 per cent of the population had attended or were attending literacy courses , almost 16 per cent had primary education and 4.5 per cent secondary education . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Reinsel ( 1981 ) studied ozone data from a network of Dobson stations over the period 1958–79 and , in agreement with several other research groups , cautiously suggested a total ozone decrease of between 2.0 and 4.5 per cent due to nuclear testing effects in the early 1960s . |
| 25 | The loan was granted in support of the government 's 1989-91 economic reform programme , aimed at achieving a 3.5 per cent growth and 4.5 per cent inflation by 1991 . |
| 26 | In the Liverpool study the depression prevalence for women was 13.6 per cent and 7.6 per cent for men ( Copeland et al . |
| 27 | Although the Christian Democrats ( CD ) , who had controlled the city council since the end of the Second World War , won only 94 fewer votes than the League — translating as 24.3 per cent of the vote and 7.6 per cent down on the last elections — the Brescia poll was widely interpreted as signalling a disillusionment among voters with existing electoral options . |
| 28 | Strongest organic growth came on the Continent , where profits rose by 150 per cent in France and 70 per cent in West Germany . |
| 29 | Between 60 and 70 per cent of eggs came from the ‘ independents ’ such as the nuns who kept up to 10,000 birds . |
| 30 | This is £20.20 above the £54.80 applicable amount , and 70 per cent of this is £14.14 . |