Example sentences of "and [adv] 30 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | EMPLOYERS gain almost two hours a week on average from early-bird employees , and only 30 per cent of employees contribute no extra time at all , according to a report by the mobile communications group Phonepoint . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Research has shown that 70 per cent of us would prefer to die at home and only 30 per cent of us do . |
| 4 | ‘ This is a $15 billion industry and already 30 per cent of it is accounted for by diet drinks . ’ |
| 5 | By 1987 52 per cent of the West Bank and approximately 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip had been transferred to Jewish control . |
| 6 | Of these 20,000 males and 1,100 females ( nearly 25 per cent and about 30 per cent respectively ) were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments . |
| 7 | On the other end of the childbearing period , infant mortality in the maternal age group 40 years and over is also very high ; in the 39 WFS countries about 24 per cent higher than in the 30–39 and about 30 per cent higher than in the 20–29 maternal age groups . |
| 8 | So far non-advertising revenue stands at 38 per cent of turnover and around 30 per cent of profits , though HTV does not have plans to make any large acquisitions , such as the purchase of CCA Galleries last year . |
| 9 | The effect of reading a right-wing paper was to make Labour identifiers 12 per cent more optimistic in the Pre-Campaign Wave , and fully 30 per cent more optimistic by the end of the campaign ( Table 7.15 ) . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Tass reported in June that 20 per cent of electric power would be nuclear-generated by 1995 and over 30 per cent by 2000 ( compared with 11 per cent in 1989 ) . |