Example sentences of "five [n mass] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example if we make say for example five pence on the bottle and we or for cap er one of these for twenty bottle tops , that 's a quid which is paid for . |
| 2 | Erm the small bottles will be b er be between thirty two and thirty five pence to the consumer . |
| 3 | buy the biggish , I think they 're thirty five pence from the Body , buy two or three . |
| 4 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 5 | I mean , for a start we 've got twenty five pence in the pound tax rate , where will we be in five years time ? |
| 6 | Going ahead and it started with annual wage increases because the wage increases that you did get were all about three , four or five percent at the time . |
| 7 | Ah well it 'll recover about ninety five percent of the mercury . |
| 8 | And then in addition to that if you were a poor peasant who had to hire land from somebody else , you would of course pay rent and in the nineteen thirties it 's been estimated that the average rent paid by a poor peasant farming somebody else 's land was forty five percent of the harvest . |
| 9 | The middle peasants owned twenty five percent which meant that the , the poor peasants , making up seventy percent owned just twenty five percent of the land . |
| 10 | Erm , we have about four and a half percent to five percent of the company left . |
| 11 | Now the County Councils and the City Council 's assessment of the capacity of the Greater York study sites are roughly the same , you can see , sir , that as things have moved forward in only a six month period , the City Council calculate there 's a residual requirement of nine hundred and forty seven dwellings , only twenty five percent of the migration assumption , none hundred and forty seven dwellings left , compared to the County Council 's outdated information which suggested it 's one thousand three hundred and thirty five . |
| 12 | Yeah but now we got the extra five hundred and which I say is th is , makes up for the which is five percent of the purchase price we 've got an extra to play with and get a bit more . |
| 13 | Twenty percent , twenty five percent of the crime committed em nationally , is by people under the age of sixteen . |
| 14 | Erm , we 're doing all about this in er E D S the other day and apparently from the pictures on the T V at the time everyone thought it was whole of Ethiopia that was starving , and it was only actually twenty five percent of the population . |
| 15 | Very briefly , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , you raised the issue of procedures looking at the er post two thousand and six scenario within the light of er a statutory greenbelt er at that time , and I would envisage that the County Council and the Districts , if indeed we 're all er in business at er er in in in the next century , would probably want to run a similar sort of exercise that they would be ran through the end of the eighties , and that is to sit down together , er and look at all the options , er that are available for Greater York , in the same way that they did it in ninety eighty nine , one additional factor at that time would be that er the greenbelt would be statutory , and it would be statutory if the County Council and ninety five percent of the district support on sites would be a tight greenbelt so the options would be looked at erm er in that context , on the comments that er Miss Whittaker , erm questions that Miss Whittaker raised , there is a paper that the County Council produced for the greenbelt local plan enquiry that I remember well as N Y Two , which set out in detail the various components , erm of the York greenbelt in addition to the historic title that the that the focus of the green belt comes across a variety of of of of matters , and if it if it is helpful to this panel that document was acceptable by and large , supported by the District , we can certainly put that in , and can circulate it round . |
| 16 | Again if you think about how many people actually provide their goods on time to their customers ninety five percent of the time or provide the goods and provide them on time that record is their record is very good . |
| 17 | If somebody calls you up and says something 's not working , always ask , well what did you change recently , and ninety five percent of the time , it 's that that 's the cause of the problems . |
| 18 | ninety five percent of the time it worked . |
| 19 | When Bishop Compton of Lichfield carried out a national survey in 1676 , it was estimated that five percent of the county 's population were ‘ sectaries ’ . |
| 20 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 21 | I feel very uncomfortable therefore , to sit in a room full of members , sitting here proposing to add five percent to the limit for members allowances , simply because we 've been unable to control our own behaviour , and to come in within that , I think it 's a very poor example , and it 's an example that I 'm not prepared to set . |
| 22 | It will settle down and reduce Chair , through you , that the , the , the national figure has been announced that the , for the future year , and it does recognize the fact that there is an assumption that the number of people who D S S continues to support directly will have fallen by thirty five percent by the end of this year , and there will be a further fall , and the amount that 's transferred is very much related to here 's the total available , how much does the D S S need to hold on to meet its commitments , and how much is left to distribute to the local authorities . |
| 23 | The correct word is the highest scoring 65% of the time , and within the top five 85% of the time . |
| 24 | There were then five butchers in the village . |
| 25 | When the Market House was built there were five butchers in the Shambles and shops and stalls for produce of all kinds . |
| 26 | You can always get twenty five quid off the trade double your money , quick easy money . |
| 27 | I persuaded Chester to cash in his Trustees account after agreeing to pay five quid for the taxi to take him to the bank . |
| 28 | I mean that is really nice that , they want thirty five quid for the headboard |
| 29 | there 's no extra labour , I normally charge about a hundred and thirty pound for each wing , that 's two hundred and sixty er eighty pound for the bonnet , well about a hundred pound for the bonnet , that 's three hundred and sixty then er , forty five quid for the slam pan , that 's it |
| 30 | Well it 's low this is lower cost than what we 're doing currently , we 're giving away , we 're getting nothing only a cost of of twenty five quid on the seat . |