Example sentences of "[num] [unc] cent [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | With this 100 per cent jib she 's powerful and relatively upright in a breeze |
2 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
3 | However , assuming a 70 per cent efficiency we can take this as 3A , and this calls for a 80VA transformer and a 6A rectifier to be on the side of ‘ belt and braces ’ . |
4 | He felt sure he could sweet-talk Antonio and get the 25 per cent equity he needed to put the new deal to bed . |
5 | ‘ My husband said that if we got 50 per cent back it would be something but this is very good news , ’ said Mrs Lee . |
6 | Being a 110 per cent cricketer he wanted to leave his problems 5,000 miles away in England and bury his attentions in the game that has won him glory . |
7 | Well the Solicitors turned round and said to him that there 's a twenty five per cent chance he 'll lose his licence , but then he 'll get there erm , but most he 'll probably get is about a month , and then he said , well surely your job could find you something to do in that time , has said , no licence , no job , so what he had to do was to . |
8 | well you know , the five per cent reduction you know , do n't worry about that at the minute and and all this sort of thing so |
9 | On this reckoning even people 's generally low opinion of their ability to understand interest rates — 61 per cent feeling they do not understand them — underestimates the true extent of their difficulties . |