Example sentences of "and [adv] 50 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the purchasing power of a single person 's pension in Britain was just less than 75 per cent of the French pension , 60 per cent of its West German counterpart and only 50 per cent of the value of the equivalent Dutch pension . |
| 2 | Ten per cent of Britons profess to eating meat only rarely and nearly 50 per cent agreed that they much less than they used to . |
| 3 | This suggests that the expansion is largely due to rural-urban migration , which is estimated to account for 40–70 per cent of urban growth in the post-war period up to 1970 ( Morse 1971 ) , and about 50 per cent since then . |
| 4 | Over 75 per cent of people with secondary syphilis will have some form of rash , and about 50 per cent will have a generalized enlargement of the lymph glands . |
| 5 | According to UN envoy Jean Ripert , sent to Jordan in October , the crisis would cost Jordan as much as 30 per cent of GDP in 1990 and about 50 per cent in 1991 . |
| 6 | After a visit to Amman in October the UN special envoy , Jean Ripert , estimated that the crisis would cost Jordan as much as 30 per cent of GDP in 1990 and about 50 per cent in 1991 . |
| 7 | With over 60 per cent of households owning a VCR and virtually 50 per cent with at least two TV sets ; with 11 channels available via BSkyB 's Astra satellite , and over 10 per cent household penetration ; and video film rentals running at over 500 million per year ; the use made of a fairly stable total screen time per viewer is becoming progressively more diffuse . |
| 8 | Worst of all are the Czech Republic and Slovakia , where 80 per cent of pine trees under 60 years old and almost 50 per cent of oak trees have been damaged by air pollution . |
| 9 | Particularly striking were the poor results in the major cities : in Moscow the turnout was only 67 per cent of voters , and barely 50 per cent of those voted in favour of the union . |