Example sentences of "cent do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 62 per cent did just that last year compared with 42 per cent the previous year . |
| 2 | They paid ninety per cent did n't they ? |
| 3 | By the late 1960s only 10 per cent did not . |
| 4 | In an opinion poll taken in December of that year on the question ‘ Which do you think is the more important for Britain to concentrate on : building up strength in atomic weapons and missiles , or in conventional weapons like troops , tanks and bombers ? ’ 52 per cent favoured the former , 8 per cent the latter , 22 per cent neither , wanting disarmament instead , and 18 per cent did not know . |
| 5 | Thirteen per cent did not know . |
| 6 | Thirteen per cent did not know . |
| 7 | Some doctors used the instrument two or three times a day , six per cent did not carry one in their bag and half had used them fewer than 12 times in the past six months . |
| 8 | The effect of this was that , of the 75,000 original beneficiaries , 51 per cent did not receive any land . |
| 9 | A poll conducted among Jewish Israelis in 1949 indicated that 73 per cent opposed the return of the Arab refugees but 27 per cent did not . |
| 10 | As a result , by the time the DET did a survey of farm schooling in 1986 , only 3 per cent of the total of 5,782 farm schools offered education for more than seven grades , and 21 per cent did not offer education beyond four grades . |
| 11 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 12 | Sixty-seven per cent of creditors had no knowledge of the debtor 's financial state at the time of the original transaction , and 77 per cent did not obtain any further information before or during the proceedings . |
| 13 | In our main 1979 survey , 11 per cent of credit buyers said that their contracts had included some form of insurance against being unable to pay , while 19 per cent did not know ( Appendix I , Table 35 ) . |
| 14 | In the well-known experiments of Stanley Milgrom in the United States , where members of the public were invited off the streets to torture others , although 60 per cent did so , 40 per cent did not . |
| 15 | In 1970 , Labour identification was not necessarily tied to support for the party 's ‘ traditional ’ concerns , or at least the concerns of the left-wing : only 39 per cent of Labour identifiers were in favour of nationalising more industries ; only 40 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power ; and although 60 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services this represented a marked decline from the 89 per cent recorded in 1964 ( Crewe et al . , |
| 16 | ( 1977 ) , 50 per cent of Labour identifiers supported more nationalisation of industry , 61 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services , and 44 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power . |
| 17 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
| 18 | In comparison , a survey of 1,200 white pensioners living in Melton Mowbray found only 2 per cent did not have a state pension . |
| 19 | Fifty-six per cent did not operate the sales ledger on secured terms ; 27 per cent did ; and 16 per cent sometimes operated on secured terms , using bank guarantees , export credit guarantee , or cash up front . |
| 20 | In the well-known experiments of Stanley Milgrom in the United States , where members of the public were invited off the streets to torture others , although 60 per cent did so , 40 per cent did not . |
| 21 | The particular importance of housing tenure has been noted already : Townsend found that among respondents renting council accommodation only 20 per cent rated themselves as middle class while among owner-occupiers 40 per cent did so . |
| 22 | Establishments in public administration ( particularly in education ) made the greatest use of fixed-term contract workers — 39 per cent did so — and the least use of agency workers — eight per cent did so [ see Tables 3.1–2 ] . |
| 23 | Establishments in public administration ( particularly in education ) made the greatest use of fixed-term contract workers — 39 per cent did so — and the least use of agency workers — eight per cent did so [ see Tables 3.1–2 ] . |
| 24 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 25 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 26 | Possibly the only person ever to have succeeded in upstaging Margaret Thatcher in a photo-opportunity , Katharine lined up to shake the Prime Minister 's hand wearing a T-shirt declaring ‘ 58 per cent Do n't Want Pershing ’ at a Downing Street reception in 1984 . |
| 27 | ( In case you are wondering about the arithmetic , 19 per cent do n't have any preferences at all ! ) |
| 28 | Seventy-five per cent do n't . |
| 29 | Seventy-five per cent do n't have Income Protection . |
| 30 | The motor car is socially divisive in that while 50 per cent of the population of Britain have access to a car , the remaining 50 per cent do not and they are always the underprivileged sections of the community : the old , the young , the poor . |