Example sentences of "cent [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of staff — 62 per cent — read all or most of Newsline while 38 per cent read some or just a little of the publication . |
| 2 | Studies of lesbian subjects are particularly infrequent. 18 per cent of the US studies of homosexuality reviewed by Morin ( 1977 ) investigated lesbians , and a further 10 per cent examined both lesbians and gay men . |
| 3 | Discounting Project A by 8 per cent and 14 per cent produces this result : whereby an 8 per cent discount factor produces a negative NPV of £2,025 and a 14 per cent discount factor produces a positive NPV of £2,515 . |
| 4 | Only three per cent reported any difficulty . |
| 5 | Of 80,000 men who have the snip every year , five per cent want another child , says the Surgical Advisory Service in London . |
| 6 | For example , a survey of just under 1,000 firms in the 1950s ( Industrial Welfare Society 1951 ) found that , even among the employers of skilled workers , a third were doubtful as to the worth of those over 45 , while 6 per cent considered such men ‘ too old ’ . |
| 7 | Of employed women who needed to make arrangements for a pre-school child , 34 per cent used the child 's grandmother and 9 per cent used another relative . |
| 8 | Another change administration officials are looking at is cutting the passenger ticket tax from 8 per cent to 2 per cent to encourage more travel . |
| 9 | Of the 300,000 women estimated to be doing home-work in Britain today 72 per cent receive less than the legal minimum hourly wage , three quarters of those get 1 ( $1.60 ) or less and some make as little as 20p ( 30 cents ) an hour . |
| 10 | A slightly smaller proportion need shopping help , but only 9 per cent receive this type of assistance . |
| 11 | For example , of those who need help with shopping 85 per cent receive this from the informal sector . |
| 12 | In spite of compensating for Labour 's traditional hold over local government and its high number of long-serving male councillors , the party 's 19 per cent equals that of the Scottish National Party , which has 37 women councillors out of a total of 191 . |
| 13 | On the other hand their subordinates — that large body of laymen and women who , as assistants or typists , seemed necessary to support what Ian had called the one per cent addressed these senior clergy by their titles to their faces and even amongst themselves referred to their superiors in this way . |
| 14 | I think only twenty four per cent thought that , that flu was preventable , so er there 's a lot of work to be done to get the message across . |
| 15 | Ninety-four per cent of those surveyed thought recycling was important , but only 36 per cent did any themselves : 64 per cent said that they put all their household waste straight into the bin . |
| 16 | Compositors with a wage increase of 40 per cent did less well , while typefounders , oppressed by a tightly knit group of employers , were unable to secure a money increase and stayed for seventy years on 18s ( 90p ) a week , experiencing an evident decline in living standards not only in 1795 and 1800 – 1 , but over the last ten years of the wars . |
| 17 | Only 5 per cent said interest rate was the most important factor , and even when their second and third choice factors were added in , only 19 per cent gave any importance to interest rates . |
| 18 | Toileting , bathing , hair washing , and feeding were less common tasks but even so 22 per cent gave some help with toileting , 39 per cent with bathing , 40 per cent with hair washing , and 12 per cent with feeding . |
| 19 | or maybe twenty per cent , ten per cent think they 're better than the teacher thinks they are , ten per cent think that |
| 20 | Ford unions have rejected a 9.5 per cent increase this year , and lightning walk-outs are likely to continue before the unions decide on their next step on November 20 . |
| 21 | The potential for the epidemic to spread is underlined by a survey among black schoolchildren in Cape Town which revealed that 70 per cent of 16-year-olds were sexually active , and 20 per cent had several partners in the past year . |
| 22 | ( Webster , 1967 ) has shown that only 10 per cent had any reference to the actual date of the deposit in which they were found . |
| 23 | Out of 133 identified cases of abuse , 51 per cent had some element of physical abuse . |
| 24 | Ling and Davies ' ( 1984 ) questionnaire survey of a sample of 132 off-site units found that 16 per cent operated under the auspices of social service departments or voluntary agencies , 56 per cent were said to be part of the special education sector and 27 per cent had some other administrative background . |
| 25 | Similarly , whereas over half of the sample ( 57 per cent ) admitted to always or mostly continuing to drink even when they knew they were intoxicated , at the end of the course 60 per cent said this rarely or never occurred . |
| 26 | 8 per cent covered such whole-school issues as management and curriculum leadership ; |
| 27 | In the UK , sulphur and nitrogen will need to be reduced 90 per cent to safeguard all sensitive ecosystems . |
| 28 | DB 's founders , David Howarth and Bruce Ledwith , are each taking out £2 million in loan notes earning 1 per cent below LIBOR , and keeping a 10 per cent stake each in Atreus . |
| 29 | Among the most well-off quartile of elderly people living alone ( those with an RNR greater than 130 per cent ) , 19 per cent have some earned income , compared with 2 per cent in the lowest quartile ( those with RNR less than 100 per cent ) . |
| 30 | While small firms still predominateand 80 per cent have fewer than five partners — many expect to grow in size . |