Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] 20 per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gap between the top 20 per cent . |
| 2 | The majority of the remaining 20 per cent are fed a complete and balanced dry dog food , such as Omega dog food . |
| 3 | Since that time the productivity of the top 20 per cent of farmers has been sustained with a continuous record of technical improvement ; about 40 per cent have maintained a level of productivity which enables them to generate an acceptable income ; and a further 40 per cent have continued to produce enough for their own household 's subsistence requirements . |
| 4 | There are now six machines that play at the standard of the best 30 per cent of rated players , and three in the class of the top 20 per cent . |
| 5 | The most important amendment agreed as part of the compromise was the rescinding of a proposed 20 per cent tax on interest payments on consumer loans . |
| 6 | John Clarke of Swinden , for one , must have been a gentleman , with his income of £10 a year , yet his moveables were valued at no more than 30s. , with which he only just scraped into the top 20 per cent . |
| 7 | Labour turnover has been increasing , especially in the accommodation department and ( more recently ) in the restaurant , with a disturbing 20 per cent rise in accidents in housekeeping and the restaurant . |
| 8 | The total dividend goes up from 10.3p to 11.5p , but it will be paid on 2 April , just before the new 20 per cent tax credit on dividends comes into force , rather than in June , saving the company £940,000 , or the equivalent of 0.224p a share . |
| 9 | The comprehensive schools , in a perfectly adjusted system , should have had 20 per cent of their pupils in the top 20 per cent of the ability range : in fact , they had only 15 per cent and one-quarter of the schools had less than 5 per cent . |
| 10 | Again and again in the past two or three years , Mr Smith quelled dissent by saying that only his policy of studied respectability and his concentration of tax upon the top 20 per cent of voters could win . |
| 11 | Ford retained market leadership with its share up from a lowly 20 per cent last September to 25 per cent — a volume increase from 34,421 to 38,445 . |
| 12 | The USA had threatened to impose a 100 per cent retaliatory import tariff on some $165,000,000-worth of Japanese personal computers every year , unless Japan took action to implement the 1986 agreement ; it had , however , eventually agreed to give Japan another 18 months , until the end of 1992 , in which to build up US imports to the agreed 20 per cent market share . |
| 13 | In fact before the first year of this trial was completed , some 80 per cent of decision packages were approved almost automatically and resources were directed at the remaining 20 per cent of packages . |
| 14 | Eighty per cent of it I duck , but people look at the other 20 per cent you do and because it is 50 per cent more than others do , it appears , as you say , that you are a self-promoter . ’ |