Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Association for Gifted Children says two to five per cent of the population is highly able , and about half of one per cent are exceptionally gifted . |
| 2 | For the latter , half of one per cent of the value of the matter to the client is common . |
| 3 | But exports of cheap beef to west Africa account for less than half of one per cent of total EC beef production . |
| 4 | The Government has limited public sector pay rises to one point five per cent , although teachers will receive a rise of just above half of one per cent . |
| 5 | ‘ And if we can shift one half of one per cent of the products from outside the area to within , that alone will be worth £2million to Darlington . ’ |
| 6 | You think I could have some of that I pu i m Melorose or something , for dry eyes . |
| 7 | Er can I , can I take a few of those er an and try and separate them . |
| 8 | And if we can put this into simplistic erm er er nay almost Mickey Mouse terms that the enlightenment was based upon rationalism . |
| 9 | The Oxford workers want to reduce this to I per cent before starting a full service . |
| 10 | The South accounts for approximately 10 per cent of world manufacturing capacity at present , and the Report 's objective was to raise this to 25 per cent by the year 2000 . |
| 11 | However , adding a proximity to transport constraint lowers this to 12 per cent ; and so on . |
| 12 | As different layers are added sequentially we see how the proportion of available land shrinks ( Pl. 10.3 ) ; for instance , when geological criteria are set in the search for a deep repository , 25 per cent of land area remains and the addition of the population density layer reduces this to 24 per cent . |
| 13 | The Centre Party , led by Esko Aho , increased its share of the vote by nearly half to 24.8 per cent and its seat total by nearly one-third to 55 . |
| 14 | Even so , to proclaim so dogmatically a single-figure norm ( instead of something attainable such as 10 per cent ) was widely perceived to be a mistake . |
| 15 | For moderate levels of distortion ( such as five per cent ) the distortion factor is virtually the same as total harmonic distortion . |
| 16 | We may go further and specify confidence limits such as 95 per cent . |
| 17 | If companies do decide to charge the employee interest , the rate is usually bankers ' base rate plus a percentage such as 1 per cent ( at Cadbury Schweppes ) or 1½ per cent ( at Pilkingtons ) . |
| 18 | Some formula such as 50 per cent of the current local room rate ( given the place and period this might be about £30 ) might be acceptable . |
| 19 | To compensate , Asian families were prepared to cut current consumption drastically , thus raising the ratio of savings to GDP to heights ( such as 39 per cent ) unheard of in developed countries . |
| 20 | The DES ( 1984b ) reports some work to identify a link between the proportion entering higher education of those qualified ( QPI ) and unemployment , and conclude from some aggregate level analyses that if these results are valid they imply that much of 2.1 per cent rise in QPI in 1981/82 could be attributed to the total increase in unemployment — from 1.8 million to 2.7 million between July , 1980 and July , 1981 . |
| 21 | You have six companies each with 10 per cent or more of the business . |
| 22 | It is not fair , perhaps , that with 23 per cent of the vote the Alliance should have won only 3 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons . |
| 23 | On the hon. Gentleman 's other point , it is worth saying that with 9 per cent . |
| 24 | It 's worth also mentioning , since you saw it in the practical class , that staphylococci in general produce this enzyme catalase all of these er lo thi this is the enzyme which breaks down hydrogen peroxide and detoxifies it . |
| 25 | Er the wages were n't really moving at all in these shor er times . |
| 26 | In the 1987 election , Worcester told us , these five polling firms were all within three per cent of the share of vote for each party , and the average error on share was 1.25 per cent . |
| 27 | In 1983 their record was even better , all within three per cent of the share , with an average error of only 0.86 per cent . |
| 28 | In 1986 , official figures put the proportion of black South Africans over twenty without any education at all at 37.4 per cent ( not including those in ‘ independent ’ homelands ) . |
| 29 | Two-party dominance was at its greatest in the period between 1945 and 1970 when the Conservative and Labour Parties won all but 8 per cent of the vote and 2 per cent of the seats . |
| 30 | Setting the threshold at £200,000 , which would include all but 1 per cent of taxpayers , would still yield more than £3 billion . |