Example sentences of "cent [prep] [det] [noun pl] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Germany , which took some 60 per cent of all refugees in the European Communities ( EC ) , had received 256,000 applications for political asylum in 1991 [ see p . |
2 | The Home Office report ( 1979 ) indicated that 5 per cent of all experiments in the UK were in the nature of such routine testing . |
3 | Today 75 per cent of all telephones in the world are in fewer than 10 countries . |
4 | In other words , the supposedly modest Sun is in the top 5 per cent of all stars in the Galaxy . |
5 | In the course of eight months 20 per cent of all horses in the country had been killed . |
6 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
7 | In 70–80 per cent of all streets in the town , the amount of time spent by the car driver is under 30 per cent of that of the total time spent by all other people on the street . |
8 | This blanket term covers the ‘ blues ’ at one end of the spectrum ( affecting between 70 and 80 per cent of all women in the first week or so after birth ) to the post-puerperal psychosis which temporarily hospitalizes three in every thousand mothers . |
9 | As late as 1926 90.9 per cent of all inhabitants in the guberniia were in rural locations , one of the highest percentages for European Russia . |
10 | It still remains the case that something between 50 and 60 per cent of all regions in the Community lie within 15 per cent of the Community average per capita GDP . |
11 | Privatization was to be accomplished by a mixed system of " named cheques " given to every Russian citizen , who would be able to redeem them for company shares of their choice , and by the handing over of 30 per cent of all shares in a privatised enterprise to the workforce . |
12 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
13 | The ICS showed , that while , as we have seen , domestic violence was a considerable problem , comprising an estimated 22 per cent of all assaults in the borough , it was one usually not taken very seriously by the police . |
14 | Their conclusion was that if all the companies in that region introduced whatever new technology was available at the time of the study the net loss of jobs might be anything from 3 to 9 per cent of all jobs in the region . |
15 | Grossing up their results the authors of the inquiry suggested that just over 7 per cent of all jobs in the economy were temporary . |
16 | Seventy per cent of all fires in the home start in the kitchen , so a converted flat that has the kitchen next to the front door — the main entrance/exit — is dangerous . |
17 | Systematic sampling of West German voters carried out in 1979–80 indicated that 13 per cent of all voters in the Federal Republic had a consolidated extreme rightist ‘ world view ’ ; 14 per cent responded positively to the statement that ‘ we should again have a Leader who would rule Germany with a strong hand for the good of all ’ . |
18 | Following the first oil shock , inflation rose from a figure of about 5 per cent in both countries in the early 1970s to an annual average of 16 per cent in Britain and 19 per cent in Spain in the period 1973–8 . |