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

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1 Thomson , whose companies include Horizon , Skytours , OSL , HCI and Wings , announced its new prices as it was revealed that bookings for 1993 are already 10 per cent down on last year .
2 In these areas the turnout was estimated to be only 10 per cent .
3 Accordingly , among 25 countries , the reduction of infant deaths alone would range from 5 to 40 per cent ( Maine and McNamara , 1985 , p.17 ) and for the same 25 countries , the average reduction in infant mortality would be about 10 per cent and in death rates of children aged 1–4 years , 21 per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.21 ) .
4 Total Waterford Crystal US sales were over 10 per cent up on 1991 .
5 He estimates ( using parameters derived from the brain damaged population ) that though the probability of left sided speech given a right ear advantage is 97 per cent , the probability of right sided speech given a left ear advantage is only 10 per cent .
6 ‘ We do have a bit of indie in us , it 's about 10 per cent indie , 90 per cent dance .
7 As an index of this environmental richness , Figure 5 shows the distribution of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in these islands ( see appendix ) ; a land designation that is about 10 per cent of the total area .
8 The normal premium is about 10 per cent of the total sum insured .
9 The population as a whole is about 10 per cent fatter than it used to be .
10 The best efficiency achieved to date is about 10 per cent .
11 The divergence between the two loading techniques depends on packing density , and for single record buckets it is almost 10 per cent — one record in ten — for an 85 per cent packed file .
12 This is around 10 per cent .
13 Conventional solar cells rely on silicon crystals , and energy conversion is around 10 per cent .
14 The risk-free rate is currently 10 per cent and the expected market rate of return is 15 per cent and neither is expected to change over the 5-year investment period .
15 ‘ The growth in lending in the year to August by Committee of Scottish and London Clearing Banks was only 27 per cent , and for Barclays it was only 10 per cent , ’ she said .
16 In early modern England the proportion of solitary 65-year-olds was only 10 per cent , while in the mid-nineteenth century it came as low as 7.5 .
17 He said there was already 10 per cent more chlorine — which mainly comes from chlorofluorocarbons chemicals ( CFCs ) in aerosol sprays and refrigeration equipment and is the main cause of the ozone hole — in the stratosphere than two years ago .
18 Rainfall during the December-April rainy season was under 10 per cent of normal , and the country 's maize crop has been devastated .
19 For executives below board level the median increase was about 10 per cent .
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