Example sentences of "about [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 The mean or average amount was nearly 8 a month or about 0.76 per cent of average earnings .
2 Does the Chancellor recognise that his optimism about 2.25 per cent .
3 This represents an elastic strain or interatomic separation of about 1.0 per cent , perhaps between a tenth and a twentieth of the theoretical strength .
4 That should , it was suggested , reduce the likelihood of any problems by about fifty per cent .
5 It has a permanent stock of about 10,000 pipes of wines and ships about fifty per cent of the island 's wine exports .
6 If everyone had one of these , the crime rate would drop by about fifty per cent . ’
7 This means that , whereas previously about fifty per cent of a museum 's budget would go on staff costs , next year almost the entire budget — over ninety per cent — will go on wages and staff costs .
8 Altogether some hundred and sixty thousand tons of vegetables and fruit leave Cavaillon every year , about fifty per cent by rail , the rest by road .
9 The fact that manual workers married on average , and throughout the period , about a year earlier helped contribute to this , as did the fact that there was about fifty per cent more childlessness among non-manual families .
10 He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off …
11 By 1989 , the transaction systems had grown to about fifty per cent of the total .
12 About fifty per cent had two or more .
13 Forty eight per cent is about fifty per cent , what 's fifty per cent as a fraction ?
14 I would say we 've lost about fifty per cent but we 're putting on a promotion to try and get people in
15 This week IBM unveiled plans to shed another 10,000 employees — about 4.5 per cent of its US workforce — saving $1billion a year and it will buy back another $4billion-worth of its own shares .
16 Altogether , United 's brands account for about 4.5 per cent of all beer and 15 per cent of lager sales .
17 Government economists predicted that the economy would experience a slight dampening in overall performance during fiscal 1989 ( partly due to the imposition of the 3 per cent GCT ) and forecast a GDP growth rate of about 4.5 per cent .
18 That 's round about thirty-seven per cent , in n it , somewhere around there .
19 It is estimated that about 75 per cent of the union 's members in Hackney and Tower Hamlets voted in the ballot , supported officially by NUT national leaders .
20 The success rate for liver transplants in children is about 75 per cent .
21 Bell Group is about 75 per cent owned by Bond Corp .
22 Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ?
23 International cargo carriage now accounts for about 75 per cent of airfreight movements .
24 Today it is about 75 per cent Palestinian .
25 According to Alliance Internationale de Tourisme the private car now carries about 75 per cent of all travellers .
26 The Wellcome Trust owns about 75 per cent of Wellcome and intends to reduce this shareholding to less than 50 per cent .
27 The evidence for this is derived from reported clinical and autopsy data in which macrovascular disease accounts for about 75 per cent of all deaths in diabetics , compared to approximately 50 per cent in the non-diabetic population ( Ganda , 1980 ) .
28 Magnox reactors produce plutonium containing about 75 per cent of plutonium 239 isotope ; AGRs 50–60 per cent ; and PWRs ( like the proposed Sizewell B ) 57 per cent .
29 Pharmaceutical and health-care firms are popular with the government because they reinvest about 75 per cent of their Irish-generated profits in the Republic .
30 Your aim should be to let the candidate do about 75 per cent of the talking .
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