Example sentences of "only a [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively stable performance of the US dollar meant , on the other hand , that any investor operating in dollars would have realized only a 3.0 per cent loss on a US share portfolio , and a gain of 8.1 per cent in the UK market or of 79.3 per cent in Mexico . |
| 2 | Over that period there has been only a 10 per cent . |
| 3 | Mr Hayward detected a glimmer of hope in the fact that the rate of increase in liquidations had slowed down , with only a 3.5 per cent rise in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 4 | Nick Harvey , a professional lobbyist , needs only a four per cent swing to take a seat held by Jeremy Thorpe for many years , where Liberal traditions are still strong . |
| 5 | Plymouth Drake : tough fight for Dame Janet Fookes in seat that used to be one of most marginal in Britain ; though Lib Dem Val Cox needs only a four per cent swing , Labour barrister Peter Telford has best hopes . |
| 6 | Neil Arnold , chief executive of the North-Eastern Co-Op , said : ‘ We have 100,000 members in the Middlesbrough area , but only a four per cent market share . |
| 7 | During 13 years ' rule by the party of law and order the police have had only a five per cent increase in manpower . |
| 8 | Minor changes in meat grading have occurred , leading to higher prices for leaner meats , but this has resulted in only a five per cent swing towards leaner meat reaching the market . |
| 9 | Liberal Democrat Mr Don Foster , a former leader of the Alliance group on Avon county council , needs only a 1.4 per cent swing to wipe out Mr Patten 's 1,412 majority after his 13 years as the constituency 's MP . |
| 10 | LVMH added £30m to the £246m pre-tax profits Guinness announced yesterday for the period to 30 June , when only a 16 per cent stake was accounted for . |
| 11 | The two extremes were represented by ‘ urban ’ Thetford , with only a 5.4 per cent unemployment rate , compared with 14.6 per cent in rural Cromer ( Packman 1979 ) . |
| 12 | But it has been calculated that there is only a 4 per cent chance of dying if bitten by one of them . |
| 13 | But Labour — while winning a net 39 seats — achieved only a 2.1 per cent swing , well short of the eight per cent needed to achieve outright victory . |
| 14 | To their growing alarm , the £10.5 billion revenues that Koch Industries were earning from oil trading , refining , piping and ranching were yielding only a one per cent return to shareholders . |
| 15 | But , as Nigel Haigh of the IEEP has pointed out , even if 1970 ( the year of peak emissions ) was taken as a baseline , the UK would achieve only a 44 per cent reduction as against 80 per cent for the Netherlands , 56 per cent for West Germany and 50 per cent for Belgium . |
| 16 | Without the abortion I 'd only a ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 17 | The organizers claimed that 700,000 people had voted , representing nearly half of Latvia 's ethnic Latvians ( now only a 53 per cent majority in their republic ) . |
| 18 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 19 | ( According to the Finance Ministry , inflation had risen 640 per cent between 1988-1989 , with only a 0.2 per cent growth rate as against 4.1 per cent for 1987-88 . ) |
| 20 | The Directive gave the UK something of a ‘ soft landing ’ , with only a 20 per cent cut on 1980 emissions required by 1993 , and just 60 per cent by 2003 . |
| 21 | ‘ We have only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding world catastrophe ’ , he told us . |
| 22 | Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , there was only a 50 per cent success rate — the experiment went off half-cocked . |
| 24 | Only a few CD15 + cells ( neutrophils ) were observed in lamina propria throughout and populations did not differ significantly between either group . |
| 25 | These differences in athletic performance might not be very large , a matter of only a few per cent , but for world-class athletes , the difference between a world record and a mediocre performance can be only fractional . |
| 26 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 27 | Total French expenditure is only a few per cent of total US space expenditure . |
| 28 | Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ . |
| 29 | Only a few per cent of the thyroid tumours would be fatal , whereas perhaps half of the cancers from caesium-137 would be fatal . |
| 30 | Although as a prediction of the electoral result this was incorrect , the estimates were only a few per cent out . |