Example sentences of "cent of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a large amount in Saudi terms , but enough ; l per cent of every invoice paid out to contractors by the Ministry . |
| 2 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 3 | The company 's figures imply that when you have burnt 99.9999 per cent of a 30,000-tonne annual throughput , a figure of 0.03 of a tonne remains . |
| 4 | Oyston is also chairman and owner of Blackpool Football Club , and is seeking the permission of the League to waive their rule that no one may hold more than 10 per cent of a club if he has a financial interest in another . |
| 5 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 6 | Only 14 per cent of a recent sample of the population , who declared themselves to be ‘ very interested in soccer ’ , actually played the game or were members of clubs , though 98 per cent watched it on television . |
| 7 | Hence the rule that anyone buying five per cent of a company must say so publicly . |
| 8 | Four people could each buy almost five per cent of a company . |
| 9 | As late as 1950 , 10 per cent of a nation-wide opinion survey sample in West Germany regarded Hitler as the statesman who had achieved most for Germany — second only to Bismarck . |
| 10 | The result has been that sales of diesel cars in Britain last year reached a record 139,810 , or 8.8 per cent of a smaller total market , compared with 128,167 ( 6.38 per cent ) in 1990 . |
| 11 | The absence of H , C , and O recoils in the forward scattering spectrum indicates that the surface has less than 1 per cent of a monolayer of these atmospheric contaminants . |
| 12 | At least 80 per cent of a typical living cell consists of water ; and its ability to absorb heat without raising temperature protects all the delicate organic molecules that it contains . |
| 13 | A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) . |
| 14 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 15 | The ability to determine this level , referred to as the ‘ odour threshold detection value ’ is provided by dilution techniques , the value itself representing the number of times an odour-bearing gas has to be diluted with clear air before 50 per cent of a panel of sniffers will just not detect it . |
| 16 | Hares make up some 20 to 30 per cent of a rural fox 's diet , and foxes have increased by three-fold over the last 20 years . |
| 17 | He wanted to set a standard that says a system is easy to use ‘ if at least 90 per cent of a representative example of users can be trained to the level specified in 15 minutes or less . ’ |
| 18 | Making 99 per cent of a journey safe and convenient by foot or bike is futile if the remaining one per cent contains a dangerous road crossing or a threatening subway . |
| 19 | Rose reported in 1953 that 79 per cent of a sample of unemployed older men in Hull knew ‘ that the country was asking people to stay on at work after retiring age ’ and 74 per cent of them thought this a ‘ reasonable thing ’ ( Rose 1953 ) . |
| 20 | This means that , whereas previously about fifty per cent of a museum 's budget would go on staff costs , next year almost the entire budget — over ninety per cent — will go on wages and staff costs . |
| 21 | Yet the technical literature is littered with damning criticism of the LD50 ( which signifies the single dose of the substance under scrutiny necessary to kill 50 per cent of a group of test animals within fourteen days ) . |
| 22 | These included 20 per cent of Central TV and 15 per cent of Border ; a cable station ; and 25 per cent of a satellite music station , MTV . |
| 23 | Overseas , he controlled the US publishing firm Macmillan , 10 per cent of a French TV channel ; and non-media interests world wide . |
| 24 | However 1 per cent of a very large and expanding GNP produces a significant total , making Japan the world 's ninth biggest military spender . |
| 25 | The IMF decided , in 1988 , that the limit to enlarged access would be 440 per cent of a country 's quota over a three-year period . |
| 26 | Only when their husbands retire can they receive pensions as dependants ( Dependants ' benefits equal 60 per cent of a single person 's basic pension . ) |
| 27 | IBM had 65 per cent of a total west European mainframe market of $5.3 billion ( in 1983 ) . |
| 28 | In a larger study assessing endurance over nine days under different levels of sleep loss , the APRE reported that with no sleep at all soldiers could only operate effectively for four days , while with I.5 hours ' sleep a day 50 per cent of a platoon lasted nine days in the field , and nearly all of a platoon allowed 3 hours sleep completed the nine-day exercise . |
| 29 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 30 | Assuming a reasonable sum of money is available , I believe that , in general , coverage is the first priority , but that it is reasonable to start preferring frequency once coverage tops about 65 per cent of a ‘ difficult ’ target audience or 75–80 per cent of an ‘ easy ’ one . |