Example sentences of "to a [adj] [num] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to studies into the side on which men ‘ dress ’ , seventy-five per cent have penises that lie to the left when they 're fully clothed as opposed to a mere seventeen per cent that have penises that lie to the right . |
| 2 | The fineness of the gold began a gentle decline through the tenth century to about 90 per cent , and debasement accelerated during the following century until it took a sudden nosedive in the two decades between 1071 and 1092 , falling from about 70 per cent to a mere 10 per cent . |
| 3 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 4 | The effect of reading a highbrow paper on public awareness of Kinnock dropped from 28 per cent to a mere 5 per cent as the election approached . |
| 5 | The difference between Kinnock 's visibility to those with high and low levels of political interest dropped from 45 per cent before the campaign to 20 per cent at the end of the campaign ; the difference between his visibility to highbrow and lowbrow paper readers dropped from 28 per cent to a mere 5 per cent ; but over the same period the difference between his visibility amongst viewers and nonviewers of television news actually rose slightly . |
| 6 | The major achievement that could be claimed by March 1983 — a notable one indeed — was that inflation had fallen from a peak of 22 per cent in early 1980 to a mere 5 per cent . |
| 7 | The English figure climbed briefly to 9 per cent in the mid-nineteenth century and then fell back to a mere 1 per cent today . |
| 8 | The rest of the thirteen essential attributes range between a mention by 20 per cent for ‘ mature/stable ’ down to a mere 2 per cent for ‘ specific educational qualifications ' ( ! ) |
| 9 | Acknowledging the downward spiral caused by the most severe global recession since the Second World War , the report predicted that world economic growth would rise from 1.5 per cent in 1992 to a mere 3 per cent in 1993 . |
| 10 | France also jacked up its key bank interest rate from 10.5 per cent to a crippling 13 per cent . |
| 11 | THE rate of inflation is expected to fall from 4.1 per cent down to a possible 3.8 per cent when official figures are published tomorrow , writes Anne Segall . |
| 12 | Our vote had collapsed to a paltry 7 per cent and the alliance of the centre now seemed capable of taking everything before it . |
| 13 | Now 30 per cent of its junior management are women , although that figure falls away to a paltry 1 per cent at the highest levels . |
| 14 | ( Professor Dudek has demonstrated that from a base of only 1.7 per cent of the population , the input in terms of literature and art amounts to a staggering 25 per cent . ) |
| 15 | In 1965 only 5 per cent of demand was met by imports , by 1970 it was 14 percent rising to 33 per cent by 1975 and to a staggering 60 per cent by the early 1980s [ Wells and Imber , 1977 ; Williams et al. , 1983 ] . |
| 16 | So far as the debt was concerned , the first success was in converting most of the short-term , high-interest credit which had stemmed from the wartime issue of government bills to a funded 5 per cent stock in 1784 – 5 . |
| 17 | The catastrophic effects of the most recent drought can be gauged fact that in 1967 the country imported over 30 per cent of its food requirements and yet only seven years later this figure had risen to a colossal 96.5 per cent in what is nominally an agrarian economy . |
| 18 | This may help to explain why the country has a national debt of about 120 per cent of GNP , one of the highest in the world , compared to a modest 35 per cent in Britain . |
| 19 | Provision of nursery education is like a geographical lottery , says Ms Robinson , with as many as 68 per cent of Hounslow tots catered for , compared to a meagre 19 per cent in North Yorkshire . |
| 20 | The Bank of Sweden on Sept. 14 reduced its marginal rate from 75 to 20 per cent , but in the face of huge renewed outflows the maximum level was on Sept. 16 raised to a draconian 500 per cent although this maximum was cut a week later to 50 per cent and on Sept. 28 to 40 per cent . |
| 21 | in 1961 to a massive 62 per cent . |
| 22 | As a result of central government policies , Islington social services suffered 8 per cent cuts in 1987/8 and all departments were asked to produce proposals for cuts of up to a further 25 per cent which they might have to achieve over the next two years . |
| 23 | Your salary is £8,250 exclusive of live-in benefits , which may be assumed to be equivalent to a further 20 per cent . |
| 24 | Kleinwort Benson said it could lead to a further 15 per cent fall in property values . |
| 25 | However , they are taking heart that it is now back to a comfortable 250 per cent . |
| 26 | However , they are taking heart that it is now back to a comfortable 250 per cent . |
| 27 | In Wales the support for devolution amounted to a derisory 11.8 per cent . |
| 28 | Due to an anticipated 50 per cent fall in natural gas sales to Argentina , however , fuel prices would rise 43 per cent , making it likely that inflation would exceed the planned 10 per cent for 1992 . |
| 29 | If the poll tax really became a tax on voting , was it non-registering residents , rather than any enthusiasm for Major or Lang , that pushed the Tory percentage in Scotland up from a poll average of about 21 to an actual 25.5 per cent , and proportionately diminished the impact of the Labour and SNP campaigns ? |
| 30 | In an effort to reduce it , the government increased interest rates , which restricted growth to an estimated 6.5 per cent in 1990 , almost a full percentage point down from the 1989 figure . |