Example sentences of "cent [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mortgage tax relief will be reduced to twenty per cent from next year , and to fifteen per cent the year after . |
| 2 | The row blew up on Tuesday when Mr Lamont announced in the Budget that VAT of 8 per cent would be imposed on fuel bills next year and 17.5 per cent the year after . |
| 3 | The Soviet military mind may admire US technology and regret that the Soviet GNP is only 50–60 per cent the size of its opponent 's , but when surveying the way the US economy is organised , an officer of the |
| 4 | By working with solutions in which the amount of polymer is considerably less than 0.1 per cent the chance of a chain being incorporated in more than one crystal is greatly reduced , thereby increasing the possibility of isolated single crystals being formed . |
| 5 | At 46 per cent the turnout was too low ( due to an opposition boycott ) to allow the required 50 per cent of the 7,000,000 voters in Serbia to approve the constitutional amendment , although 95 per cent of those who voted were in favour of early elections . |
| 6 | In 1983 a questionnaire given out by the Tourist Office asked visitors what pleased them most about Madeira : 35.7 per cent of those questioned said the natural beauty of the island , 13.6 per cent the friendliness of the residents , 12.4 per cent the climate , 8.4 per cent good hotels and 7.8 per cent the flowers . |
| 7 | But on helping them decide how to vote , opinion was much more evenly divided : 36 per cent preferred television , 24 per cent the press , and a remarkable 40 per cent said the two sources were equally useful ( Table 6.12 ) . |
| 8 | Below 60 per cent the exercise will not have an aerobic effect and only very fit people can gain any aerobic effect above the 85 per cent level ( see Table 3 ) . |
| 9 | Since then , however , a whole range of staff from administrative and clerical , to senior managers , anciliaries and technicians have won pay rises above , and sometimes well above , the 5 per cent the NHS was given for inflation . |
| 10 | Therefore , the tax due to the Customs and Excise must be extracted from the price quoted ; for example , if the VAT is at fifteen per cent the calculation would be : |
| 11 | ( On the previous day the Iraqis , citing " marketing reasons " , had suspended output through one pipeline and reduced to 56 per cent the flow through the other . ) |
| 12 | They were then asked what they liked least about Funchal ; 3 1.7 per cent said the pollution and 15.8 per cent the noise and confusion in the city . |
| 13 | At an INRO council meeting in Kuala Lumpur on July 10-11 , it was agreed to reduce by 5 per cent the buffer stock reference price ( the base on which calculations were made to determine whether intervention was necessary ) to approximately 207 Malaysian/Singapore cents a kilo . |
| 14 | A revised budget for 1991 , approved at a meeting of the federal Cabinet on July 8 , reduced by 17 per cent the proposals for federal expenditure made in May , to Dh16,400 million ( US$4,470 million ) . |
| 15 | Over 100 years , the substitute would have only 11 per cent the damage potential of the CFC . |
| 16 | Estimates put as low as 25 per cent the proportion of the labour market which positively benefits from organizational tenure , those male , white-collar , full-time employees of the major , core and big-name enterprises ( Hamada , 1980 ) . |
| 17 | UNICEF said that its target could be met if both developing countries and donor governments increased to 20 per cent the proportion of their spending devoted to basic needs and health care . |
| 18 | With a response rate of seventy eight per cent the A D F F survey reveals that in eighty two per cent of the eighty four authorities that replied , budget reductions were planned and in a further eight per cent a standstill budget was expected . |
| 19 | showing you the reality ten per cent the rest comes from all over the country . |
| 20 | Because it 's been that long keeping an eye on them that they could be supplying half the business on our time with and then a hundred per cent the rest of the time . |
| 21 | Recycling programmmes have failed to prevent Europe 's cities from increasing by 13 per cent the volume of waste discarded over the past five years . |
| 22 | In 1983 a questionnaire given out by the Tourist Office asked visitors what pleased them most about Madeira : 35.7 per cent of those questioned said the natural beauty of the island , 13.6 per cent the friendliness of the residents , 12.4 per cent the climate , 8.4 per cent good hotels and 7.8 per cent the flowers . |
| 23 | At the same time the Italian government undertook to reduce from 6 to 2.25 per cent the margin either side of the central rate by which the lira 's exchange rate was allowed to fluctuate . |
| 24 | Even when the moisture content rises above 18 per cent the fungi may not grow if the ventilation is good . |
| 25 | In such situations — where the best X per cent of students are to get the As , the next best nX per cent the Bs , and so on — the grade awarded to a student depends not on the absolute level of performance he or she attains but on how he or she performs relative to other students . |
| 26 | Packaging for egg boxes , meat trays and fast food can be made with other fibres and plastics , and reduce by 100 per cent the CFCs used in this area . |
| 27 | The UK government has increased by 20 per cent the fees paid by industrial plants , sewage treatment works and farmers for discharging effluent into rivers and coastal waters . |
| 28 | With this new dismantling process , BMW hopes to reduce by 46 per cent the waste which is dumped in the environment and , in the years ahead , aims to cut it down by more than half again . |
| 29 | It is down on the 22.6 per cent the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured in the 1987 election . |
| 30 | In 1983 a questionnaire given out by the Tourist Office asked visitors what pleased them most about Madeira : 35.7 per cent of those questioned said the natural beauty of the island , 13.6 per cent the friendliness of the residents , 12.4 per cent the climate , 8.4 per cent good hotels and 7.8 per cent the flowers . |