Example sentences of "for the [adj] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is that for the actual three hund |
| 2 | For each criterion sample tasks are illustrated together with success rates for the lowest 40 per cent of attainers ; difficulty factors and common errors are also pointed out . |
| 3 | The number of levels ranged from two to five , but only one scheme had a level designed for the lowest ten per cent of attainers . |
| 4 | The VAT row gathered pace when the Treasury , after a series of Commons exchanges , confirmed that more than five million pensioners and others on low income will not be compensated in full for the planned 17.5 per cent rise in domestic fuel bills in 1995 . |
| 5 | Bowers , for example , reviews research indicating that speed falls from 55 to 45 km/h in such zones , with the associated implication that speeds for the fastest 15 per cent of drivers would be above 50 to 55 km/h . |
| 6 | I think we should press for the International Olympic er Committee to look at their rules and see that er to ensure that you can not buy the Games , you , you win the Games on merit . |
| 7 | I think we have to say that er I would imagine that plans are well advanced for the nineteen ninety/ninety one/ninety two settlement , er so it may not be immediately that er we will get the benefit of what we said to him . |
| 8 | For the other forty per cent I offered to go and collect him and as there were no other takers , I got the job . |
| 9 | Hebes make a good long-term window box plants ; look out for the silvery blue-green Hebe Pinguifolia , ‘ Pagei ’ . |
| 10 | For a further 20 per cent , the gap was between one month and six months and for the remaining 5 per cent it was over six months . |
| 11 | For the remaining 5 per cent of the year , they are allowed to exceed the standards by an unlimited amount . |
| 12 | The new ruling will keep the 95 per cent rule , but for the remaining 5 per cent of the time a new , tighter standard will be set . |
| 13 | They say that if you take one in five children , that 's twenty per cent of children , that probably eighteen per cent of children with special needs can be dealt with in ordinary schools and that there would still be need for special facilities for the remaining two per cent . |
| 14 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 15 | The current trend towards ever higher emissions would be curbed by energy conservation ( accounting for around 43 per cent of the required reduction ) and a shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy ( accounting for the remaining 57 per cent ) . |
| 16 | The examination , counting for the remaining 60 per cent , is based on questions relating texts to the overview given in the core : text in context . |
| 17 | The first stage of the transition to market prices would mean dividing prices into three categories : by the end of 1991 only 55 per cent of goods would be sold at fixed state prices , 30 per cent would be " regulated " , and prices for the remaining 15 per cent of goods would be freed completely . |
| 18 | By 1985 it was recorded that the top 6 per cent of the population in income terms now received 25 per cent of national income , while for the poorest 20 per cent their share had actually fallen from even the 5.9 per cent they enjoyed in 1979 . |
| 19 | Chairman Roland Williams announced a competition for the best 40 's style stand to help broaden the interest of the event for a family day out and to attract people from outside the farming community . |
| 20 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |
| 21 | ‘ The team 's suspension system has been identical for the past 22 Grands Prix , that is since the beginning of the 1992 world championship . |
| 22 | The Ulsterman ( right ) , severely injured during practice for the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix , lapped within 1.6 secs of the fastest lap set by a F3000 car in a recent British F2 meeting , but continuing problems with his left knee prevent Donnelly from thinking seriously about an F1 return . |
| 23 | Mums and dads , on the other hand , have to muddle through this supreme test of parentship more or less on their own — except for the inevitable mock-exam post mortem . |
| 24 | For the next 4 ½ hours the men held us hostage , told us about their comrades who had already fallen in battle , and threatened to kill us . |
| 25 | As he said himself : ‘ We do n't want to be sitting on a bad result for the next 3 ½ months . ’ |
| 26 | It was they who caused a reluctant minister to accept , in 1963 , the introduction of an examination at 15 + other than O level ( the CSE examination ) specifically designed for the next 40 per cent of the ability range below the 20 per cent for whom 0 level was thought to be appropriate . |