Example sentences of "cent [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | INTEREST rates in Ireland touched an astonishing 60,000 per cent for a time as the Dublin government battled speculators . |
| 2 | They found that the ‘ ee ’ pronunciation was given 96 per cent of the time with items like gean , 92 per cent of the time with items like geak , and 79 per cent of the time with items like gead . |
| 3 | They found that the ‘ ee ’ pronunciation was given 96 per cent of the time with items like gean , 92 per cent of the time with items like geak , and 79 per cent of the time with items like gead . |
| 4 | They found that the ‘ ee ’ pronunciation was given 96 per cent of the time with items like gean , 92 per cent of the time with items like geak , and 79 per cent of the time with items like gead . |
| 5 | Speakers looked at listeners 50 per cent of the time while speaking fluently compared with only 20 per cent of the time during hesitant speech . |
| 6 | McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) have shown how only 6 per cent of the time of patrol police is occupied with incidents defined as ‘ criminal ’ . |
| 7 | It could appropriate 100 per cent of the time to its own business and utterly stifle debate by the opposition . |
| 8 | There 's a half-moon but it 's obscured ninety per cent of the time by a lot of low , fast-moving cloud producing occasional freezing gusts of rain . |
| 9 | Speakers in this category were numbers 1 , 3 , 4 and 5 who were on average correctly identified 36.4 per cent of the time by the " black " group and 17.2 per cent of the time by the " white " group . |
| 10 | Speakers in this category were numbers 1 , 3 , 4 and 5 who were on average correctly identified 36.4 per cent of the time by the " black " group and 17.2 per cent of the time by the " white " group . |
| 11 | A long , low , back variant appears 78 per cent of the time in Andersonstown as opposed to 68 per cent of the time in Braniel . |
| 12 | A long , low , back variant appears 78 per cent of the time in Andersonstown as opposed to 68 per cent of the time in Braniel . |
| 13 | The decline began again in 1954 : 7.8 per cent at the time of Suez in 1956 ; 6.3 per cent at the end of National Service in 1962 ; 5.4 per cent when Denis Healey completed his Defence Reviews in 1968 ; and 4.9 per cent in 1970 , when the withdrawal from East of Suez was nearing completion . |
| 14 | Insofar as there was any factual basis for people 's answers , it seems likely that for many it was MLR or bank base rate , which were between 12½ and 14 per cent at the time of the survey , and which are of course frequently mentioned in the press and on TV . |
| 15 | The Jewish population of Berlin also increased and peaked at about 3–4 per cent at the time of World War I. In multi-ethnic Vienna the Jews , though a different and more often stigmatized nationality , were still only yet another nationality . |
| 16 | State peasants , who as a percentage of the rural population grew to about 54 per cent by the time of the Crimean War , fared little better . |