Example sentences of "[adv] 20 [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Net absorption of chloride was seen from solution I , which contained 140 mmol/l of chloride , but not from solution II , which contained only 20 mmol/l chloride . |
| 2 | OK , give it ten years and perhaps only 20 per cent will be producing what 60 per cent or 70 per cent were twenty-five years ago . |
| 3 | In fact , in Tanzania in 1984 farmgate prices for a mix of agricultural products using estimated market exchange rates were only 20 per cent of export prices . |
| 4 | An ‘ improved farmer ’ scheme in northern Nigeria achieved an average intake of 1,900 farmers a year from 1945 to 1955 , with a failure rate of only 20 per cent . |
| 5 | ft was wrong , one Kufran Islamic socialist explained , that a man who owned a drilling machine should keep 80 per cent of what it earned each month while those who worked it should share only 20 per cent . |
| 6 | In the West although we are only 20 per cent of the world 's 3,000 million we have 90 per cent of the world 's income , 90 per cent of its gold reserves , 95 per cent of its scientific knowledge , 70 per cent of its meat and 80 per cent of its protein . ’ |
| 7 | Here , similar classes were emerging but only about 10 per cent were able to employ wage labour regularly and only 20 per cent provided it regularly . |
| 8 | It is estimated that only 20 per cent of cases of sexually transmitted disease are seen in the specialist clinics . |
| 9 | It is estimated that by the first decade of next century , only 20 per cent of the peat soils now present on the 561 square kilometres marked by the soil map of the Ely district will remain . |
| 10 | According to the DHSS , in 1982 , only 10 per cent had an income above the average for working families and , at the same time , only 20 per cent of working families had incomes below the average pensioner income . |
| 11 | This left only 20 per cent who reported a degree of pain which seemed appropriate to the nature and amount of their injury . |
| 12 | Only 20 per cent , however , were willing to assume any responsibility for payment of teachers ' salaries . |
| 13 | In rural areas , however , literacy in any language was estimated to be only 20 per cent . |
| 14 | Growth rates in the North are well below the world average and thus its population will increase by about only 20 per cent between 1980 and 2025 . |
| 15 | After 1998 , these figures start being ‘ phased down ’ by ½ per cent a year , so that anyone retiring after the year 2008 gets only 20 per cent ( one fifth ) of their relevant earnings , after they have been revalued and averaged over the whole of the working life . |
| 16 | The fist reason is that our society is composed of a variety of religious groups , of whom only 20 per cent are practising Christians . |
| 17 | In 1988/89 only 20 per cent of ivory traded was legal and two thirds of that was snatched from poachers . |
| 18 | Furthermore local authorities are also allowed to spend only 20 per cent of the money raised from the sale of council houses to tenants . |
| 19 | In other words , without it one can not explain why at the present time there is a maldistribution of world wealth and income such that the countries of the Northern hemisphere contain only 25 per cent of the world 's population but obtain 80 per cent of the world 's income , while the countries of the South contain 75 per cent of the world 's population but obtain only 20 per cent of the world 's income . |
| 20 | For example , a firm with two partners would be getting 100 per cent attendance : a firm with eight only 20 per cent [ sic ] . |
| 21 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 22 | Simply stated , only 20 per cent of the tasks we do in a day produce 80 per cent of the rewards . |
| 23 | The regular facilities provide only 20 per cent of the credit available from the Fund . |
| 24 | The General Household Survey in 1979 found that only 20 per cent of economically active married men supported a dependent wife and children . |
| 25 | ( 1988 ) report that 87 per cent of those aged 75 + were aware of the district nursing service as compared with only 20 per cent for the health visiting service . |
| 26 | This is corroborated by the data obtained from the snowball sample which show that , while 38 per cent of males were known , only 20 per cent of females were known . |
| 27 | Categorizing these reports as being either " primary visual experiences " ( PVEs ) or " secondary cognitive elaborations " ( SCEs ) they found that 82 per cent of reports of mental activity when woken from REM bursts were PVEs , and 12 per cent SCEs ; 80 per cent of reports after awakenings from REM quiescence were SCEs , while only 20 per cent were PVEs . |
| 28 | In 1817 England was still , as it had been for centuries , an agricultural nation , only 20 per cent of the population living in towns . |
| 29 | The only flexibility in a local authority 's ability to raise finance will be the poll tax , which on current reckoning is intended to make up only 20 per cent of a local authority 's revenue base . |
| 30 | In such a zone the refusal rate was a high as 40 per cent compared with only 20 per cent in mid-Devon , which has little protection . |