Example sentences of "percent [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area of surgery has expanded at an incredible speed from virtually from nothing three years ago to taking over as much as fifty percent or even seventy five percent of general surgery . |
| 2 | South Glamorgan county council and the Vale of Glamorgan borough council are reported to be planning increases limited to three percent or below . |
| 3 | Home demand is surely not going to be stimulated by a reduction of half a percent or so in price and in any case , with 4 million unemployed , is a thriving domestic market a real possibility ? |
| 4 | Designated accessible polling stations , er will themselves have to cover fifty percent or so of a constituency initially and people will be allowed to have access to a designated station if their own station is one that has not qualified at that time , although the aim will be a hundred percent designated er polling stations with full access . |
| 5 | Secondly councillor I take your point , sixty percent or so of people are on are erm sixty six p , I deferred your great knowledge . |
| 6 | The London region defined this as a minimum of fifty percent or more . |
| 7 | Er it 's now in this latest manual that 's just been published , is saying twenty five percent and clearly er the road achieves that so there is significant benefit as a result er in in that measure of of noise . |
| 8 | And the number of U K holidays taken , domestic holidays in this country , that figure fell by seventeen percent and yet we can see here that holidays actually taken abroad by U K residents rose a staggering fifty seven percent over the four year period . |
| 9 | On fine china erm , although profits were down , Royal Doulton did manage a margin of eight point five percent and here again improved the cash flow on nineteen ninety . |
| 10 | The late mortality rate for disease was one point seven percent and again this was significantly less than the late mortality for patients with prostate cancer , which was some four times higher at eight point four percent . |
| 11 | Circulation was down four percent , but overseas we increased our circulation by five percent and again in the U K in , in newspaper sales we held our market share . |
| 12 | Anybody from forty to forty nine , will pay three percent and then they 've got this strange idea that ladies over the age of fifty are going to have more time off work through illness , so they 're going to charge us four percent , and the men three percent . |
| 13 | And erm I always think it 's a bit funny about pass marks because I do n't think you know , this is worth fifty percent and then I think what 's a , now what 's the pass mer mark ? |
| 14 | Germany has sixty five percent and it is falling and France sixty percent and now also falling . |
| 15 | But , the major ones , I mean the engineer ones used to levy all firms two and half percent and therefore , there is an incentive to do a certain amount of training itself , and the finance obviously was self-generation itself . |
| 16 | That 's point one erm point two on the planning application fees I realize that a number of planning applications are down somewhere else erm it says that planning application fees are going to be increased by fifteen percent and there by thirteen percent . |
| 17 | In London the figure is only eighty eight point four percent but even the ninety five percent figure and the eighty eight four percent figures are artificially inflated because those elements include people who have died and not have not been removed from the register , people who have emigrated , people who have otherwise moved to other parts of the country and who it is unreasonable to expect will all be seeking to make use of postal or proxy vote facilities . |
| 18 | These will be shared ownership properties whereby the purchaser will buy a percentage usually forty to fifty percent but then pay a rent on the remainder and they will er , be able to staircase to buy further parties into an outright ownership . |
| 19 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |