Example sentences of "cent [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For approximately 90 per cent of the time we are thinking about something other than the activity at hand . |
| 2 | Adults , too , spend much time distracted and on routine activities — indeed , such time may even be dignified as ‘ incubation ’ or ‘ thinking time ’ — and few work for anything remotely approaching 100 per cent of the time they are employed . |
| 3 | Well ninety per cent of the time you should n't be where we are cos it 's no cars . |
| 4 | At the height of the inflation , prices were rising by the hour so that the price of a meal in a restaurant could rise by as much as 25 per cent in the time it took to eat it ! |
| 5 | ‘ As I was saying , I 'd pushed their occupancy rates up by 40 per cent by the time I left , and headed up a worldwide promotional campaign that got Mandarin more free press exposure than ever before . |
| 6 | That would be bad news for Wales , although they have expected all along that wonder wing David Campese would be 100 per cent by the time it came to the crunch in Cardiff . |