Example sentences of "represent [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since this represents only one per cent of projected capacity , it will not be of significant help in meeting concern over weapons production . |
| 2 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 3 | The 1970 total represents only 2½ per cent of OECD GDP , a slightly smaller proportion than in 1958 . |
| 4 | The post office has a monopoly only on the delivery of letters and parcels weighing less than a kilogram — a decling trade and one that now represents only 40 per cent of total earnings although attempts to stop the drift by creating , for example , specialised services for direct marketing have been very successful . |
| 5 | ‘ Whilst tragic in any circumstances , property repossessions were at a very low level , representing only 0.25 per cent of mortgages outstanding , and at the year end not one mortgage was 12 months or more in arrear . |
| 6 | One study showed that trades union representation was the major type of representation followed by relatives and friends with lawyers representing only three per cent of those represented , about the same number as social workers ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | Critics also pointed out that the legislation enacted in June left black South Africans , representing approximately 68 per cent of the population , still without the vote . |
| 8 | Full acceptance of the Offer would involve the issue of approximately 14m new Anglo-Welsh ordinary shares , representing approximately 37 per cent of the enlarged issue share capital of Anglo-Welsh . |
| 9 | BZW received acceptances of its Cash Offer in respect of 16,092,883 existing ordinary shares , representing approximately 9 per cent of the elections made under the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative . |
| 10 | According to official figures there were 542,300 foreigners living in Austria , representing under 7 per cent of the population , a low figure by the standards of neighbouring countries . |
| 11 | The legislation covered property illegally seized after Feb. 25 , 1948 , representing about 10 per cent of property in Czechoslovakia and worth an estimated total of 300,000 million koruna , of which about kcs60,000 million would be paid out as cash or bonds and the remainder as real estate ( US$1.00=kcs26.4234 as at Feb. 18 , 1991 ) . |
| 12 | Expenditure on the health service is a significant item within the national budget , representing about 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( Table 7.1 ) . |
| 13 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 14 | The Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions ( Landsorganisasjonen i Norge — LO ) , the country 's dominant trade-union federation representing around 35 per cent of the labour force , elected Yngve Haagensen as its new president on Oct. 25 , 1989 . |
| 15 | Yet AMP is prepared to embark on a £1bn adventure , representing over 6 per cent of its assets , which at best will only give it a share of the British life insurance market of between 2 and 2.5 per cent . |
| 16 | The average man 's ejaculate contains an estimated 200,000,000 sperm , although this represents just two per cent of the total ejaculate ; the other ninety-eight per cent consists of the mucus-like semen . |
| 17 | The article goes on : ’ The reality is the Poll Tax represents just 14 per cent . |
| 18 | The new funding represents nearly 15 per cent of the enlarged share capital of the Lanarkshire-based private engineering group , which employs 3,000 people and whose 1991 accounts showed pre-tax profits of £6.05 million on a turnover of £137 million . |
| 19 | Research ( ’ soft ’ ) money represents now 45 per cent of the LSHTM 's total income and expenditure of about £3.4 million . |
| 20 | In Finland , which is probably the world 's most northerly agricultural country , there has been a similar fall in dairy-cow numbers to about 607,000 in 1986 and the main milk breed is the Finnish Ayrshire , which now represents about 80 per cent of the national herd , the country 's only other breeds being the Friesian ( 17 per cent ) and the amalgamated Finncattle ( 2 per cent and decreasing ) . |
| 21 | The British market represents about 8 per cent of the world-wide record business . |
| 22 | That represents about 0.77 per cent . |
| 23 | AMDEA represents about 90 per cent of the companies that make domestic electrical equipment in Britain and was the first trade association to draw up a code of practice approved by the OFT . |
| 24 | Furthermore , expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP has fallen , In 1975/76 educational expenditure represented 6.3 per cent of GDP but in 1986/87 it represented only 4.9 per cent . |
| 25 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 26 | Intra-regional trade represented only 4 per cent of all trade transactions by ECOWAS members , with the bulk of trade being carried out between member states and the European Communities . |
| 27 | While this figure represented only 46.15 per cent of total export earnings as against 52.23 per cent in 1989 , it was believed to be linked to a rise in the export of machinery and transport equipment which accounted for 32.3 per cent of total export earnings . |
| 28 | However , the public sector offers little possibility of enhanced mobility for the urban poor ; the same is true of private rented accommodation that , by 1984 , represented only 12 per cent of dwellings in England and Wales . |
| 29 | Investment was sharply down and was estimated to represent only 9 per cent of gross domestic product . |
| 30 | Consequently , at the end of 1992 , the Group 's net debt of £1,146 million [ including preference shares ] represented approximately 111 per cent of shareholders ' funds , after having received £732 million proceeds from the sale of assets . |