Example sentences of "cent [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 2 | About £35 million of Faroese frozen and fresh fish is imported to Britain every year and accounts for 13 per cent of the islands ' fish exports . |
| 3 | In the questions task , eighty-one per cent of the five-year-olds ' responses , and eighty-two per cent of the eight-year-olds ' responses , were well-formed intentional explanations . |
| 4 | Controversies abound concerning the ability or predators to control prey populations , and the suggestion that wolf predation pressure ( Hansen quotes the finding that 3.5 per cent of the wolves ' diet is composed of dog remains ) was ever important is unfounded . |
| 5 | As proprietor of the casino he demanded and often received ten per cent of the others ' winnings . |
| 6 | In the questions task , eighty-one per cent of the five-year-olds ' responses , and eighty-two per cent of the eight-year-olds ' responses , were well-formed intentional explanations . |
| 7 | On average , 22 per cent of the inspectors ' time is spent on inspection , including observation , recording and analysis . |
| 8 | Around seventy per cent of the Territories ' land area is countryside ; verdant hills , small villages , rice fields , beaches and country parks seem a million miles from the sampan-crowded harbour and Manhattan-style skyline of downtown Hong Kong . |
| 9 | Research indicates that 72 per cent of the Philippines ' population is dependent on wood and charcoal for fuel . |
| 10 | This suggests that migration 's role in swelling the South 's labour force is restricted to non-manual workers , for whom the South provided 61 per cent of the movers ' destinations , while it accounted for only 52 per cent of points of departure . |
| 11 | Additionality will drop from 50 per cent under the Highlands ' previously anticipated Objective 5b status to 25 or even 15 per cent in certain cases . |
| 12 | But even in relation to those who are ultimately convicted , the fact that many of them go on to receive a non-custodial sentence — in 1999 the figures were 19.4 per cent in the Crown Court and 25.9 per cent in the magistrates ' courts — calls into question the need and justification for pre-trial detention on the present scale , particularly in view of the deplorable conditions in which most remand prisoners are held . |
| 13 | One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) . |