Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] percentage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken Ellis , county trading standards officer for Devon , said : ‘ C & G was convicted on three charges of giving more prominence to a flat rate charge rather than the annual percentage rate , and three charges of not including an example in those advertisements . |
| 2 | The figures represented an extraordinary proportion by historical standards ( some 10 times higher than the estimated percentage of US friendly fire casualties sustained in any other 20th century war ) , and were three times higher than had been previously admitted . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) a fishing vessel is British-owned if — ( a ) the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies ; and ( b ) the vessel is beneficially owned — ( i ) as to not less than the relevant percentage of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons , or ( ii ) wholly by a qualified company or companies , or ( iii ) by one or more qualified companies and , as to not less than the relevant percentage of the remainder of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) a fishing vessel is British-owned if — ( a ) the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies ; and ( b ) the vessel is beneficially owned — ( i ) as to not less than the relevant percentage of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons , or ( ii ) wholly by a qualified company or companies , or ( iii ) by one or more qualified companies and , as to not less than the relevant percentage of the remainder of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 5 | Moreover the total percentage of these first three groups in the most recent period is 76.8 , which is higher than the overall percentage . |
| 6 | That the number of railway passengers in Britain almost doubled between 1848 and 1854 — from c. 58 to c. 108 million — while the companies ' income from freight traffic multiplied almost two-and-a-half times , is more significant than the precise percentage of industrial goods or business travel concealed within these figures . |
| 7 | I would like to examine them with you this evening , because they appear to me to contain much more than the permissible percentage of nonsense . |
| 8 | Even allowing it the benefit of this doubt , our hypothetical small party would be very unlikely to end up with more than the same percentage of seats , 8.4 , as the Irish party . |
| 9 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 10 | However , it will never be practicable to convert more than a small percentage of this into useful energy . |
| 11 | As a result of the MRC 's calculations Martin claims , in an article in the spring issue of the Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection , that ‘ 300 rads average bone marrow dose is unlikely to kill more than a small percentage of those exposed ’ . |
| 12 | In that situation X , being an unsecured creditor , is likely to obtain no more than a small percentage of the price he is owed . |
| 13 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 14 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 15 | Real GNP grew by an average of 4.1% more than a full percentage point higher than forecast last spring . |
| 16 | In fact over the 1950s the Tories never won as much as half of the popular vote , and were never more than a few percentage points ahead of Labour — percentage points which are nonetheless crucial within the British electoral system . |