Example sentences of "of [art] 50 per " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is obviously a gross distortion of the 50 per cent ratio that we expect . |
| 2 | We are not in the business of putting on the backs of the poor the cost of the 50 per cent . |
| 3 | In the event , however , only 13.8 percent of the electorate voted , well short of the 50 per cent required ; of those who voted , 85.9 per cent favoured direct election and 14.1 indirect election . |
| 4 | In the presidential elections the incumbent José Eduardo dos Santos of the MPLA-PT won 49.57 per cent of the vote , just short of the 50 per cent needed to avoid a second round . |
| 5 | For the sake of the 50 per cent who have resisted the urge to cheat , the fight against drugs in sport must get its act together . |
| 6 | The remaining employers , during the negotiations which followed the mass meeting of 31 August and the threat of a strike , were still sticking at a compromise formula , one which Amelia McLean , putting the women 's case in The Vote , said she was prepared to accept , viz : a five-year ban on women entrants from 1 January 1911 , and the establishment of a 50 per cent distribution of Monotype keyboards between men and women . |
| 7 | Suppose the firm 's income consists of a 50 per cent chance of £2000 and a 50 per cent chance of nothing . |
| 8 | Debt renegotiation talks during 1989 failed to achieve Venezuela 's target , proposed in July , of a 50 per cent cut in debt-service payments , and negotiations continued on the basis of a proposed 42 per cent reduction in payments for 1990 and a proposal by creditor banks to reschedule $21,200 million of debt over 17 years . |
| 9 | They were to be abolished as part of a 50 per cent reduction in the armed forces . |