Example sentences of "twenty percent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education . |
| 2 | Ian said that judging from the basis of the that some of the nurses there are gon na be paying a hundred and twenty percent more , whatever it was , in contributions . |
| 3 | The rich peasants made up another seven percent I have to check to see I 've got the figure 's right the middle peasants , twenty percent the poor peasants seventy percent . |
| 4 | Fifty to eighty percent of my time goes to meetings , either with one of my engineers or in development meetings , or in planning functions , or — we have a series of meetings set up with this group since they provide a service to us — and oh , I do n't know — ten to twenty percent of my time [ is spent ] on the phone … and the rest of my time , either in filling out forms that I have to fill out or thinking , sometimes . |
| 5 | When it does happen , which is about fifteen , twenty percent there is a successful well , pregnancy baby at the end of it . |
| 6 | and add twenty percent on . |
| 7 | Is it any reason why you should n't express it in percentage terms say twenty percent to this , thirty percent to that ten percent |
| 8 | Twenty percent of your current salary . |
| 9 | It comes in your first twenty percent , but for survey would be constituted into a survey |
| 10 | So the survey would be constituted as se er twenty percent of the fees . |
| 11 | could have t have knocked about twenty percent off my rates and still got them even . |
| 12 | Every weekend it 's about twenty percent . |
| 13 | And my initial target then would be to say , look , what would we have to do to reduce that twenty nine percent to twenty percent ? |
| 14 | There were eighteen patients who had recurrence , twenty percent of patients who did have recurrence in the first year , and we 've subdivided those , labelling seven patients protocol violators . |
| 15 | Twenty percent of our patients would have had recurrence in that year , but on the basis of our experience , we think it unlikely they would have come to any great harm , as a result of having their cystoscopy delayed , and we would recommend this protocol to the management of superficial bladder cancer . |
| 16 | The overall er five year survival for all , all invasive cancers are around about er twenty percent er twenty eight percent . |
| 17 | But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent . |
| 18 | Er , I agree with them that the elderly do have a bad deal , but if e , if somebody 's got to take money off well surely sho , the government should be taking a cut ten to twenty percent off of their damned wages ! |
| 19 | Pay a deposit of twenty percent . |
| 20 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 21 | Some of them you you might do in your head , like you think , Well I know twenty percent is one fifth , so I 'll just divide that by five and that 's seven pounds . |
| 22 | Or if a wife was earning , working or had a pension and did use her allowances , but the husband was paying forty percent , the same switch of investments , transferring income to the wife , even though it was chargeable at twenty percent or twenty five , was relieving the husband 's forty percent . |
| 23 | Or down the scale again , the husband could be paying twenty five percent and the wife twenty percent , and they could switch investments between the two . |
| 24 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 25 | So that 's his ten thousand investment income , well that 's fine , you know , no problem , and there is a marginal rate here which you could in fact reclaim a bit of tax on twenty percent . |
| 26 | And if we do get a period of rapid inflation , because if one looks back at seventy four seventy five , with inflation running at over twenty percent a year , stock market out of control , erm and er and er building society rates very poor , erm you know seventy four begins to look a bit like ninety four to me . |
| 27 | Er and that the , the final analysis er in regard to time , was reasonable , because you 've got to bear in mind that there was money attached to that , and if his figures are out , and your bonus effort could be increased by ten to fifteen or even twenty percent you know , then his time was considered by the management to be much too loose . |
| 28 | Erm and if in another division they saw another number erm but their , their particular post only managed to see twenty percent , erm well that tells that the |
| 29 | Twenty percent of our population one in five what a disgrace . |
| 30 | In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system . |