Example sentences of "cent of [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF decided , in 1988 , that the limit to enlarged access would be 440 per cent of a country 's quota over a three-year period . |
| 2 | The risks of a fall in profitability are covered by base capital ( 25 per cent of a firm 's annual costs ) , whilst position capital is held to protect against large falls in share prices in those shares held . |
| 3 | However , under English law , a bidder who acquires over 50 per cent of a company 's voting rights will be able to remove its directors and hence control the board ( CA 1985 , s303 ) . |
| 4 | A bidder who acquires over 50 per cent of a company 's voting rights will be able to control the composition of its board of directors and hence the management of the company . |
| 5 | To the extent that a partial offer and a tender offer relate to less than 30 per cent of a company 's voting rights they cover the same ground . |
| 6 | A predator company ( the offerer ) can buy up to 15 per cent of a company 's shares without restrictions , but above that level must then wait seven days before being allowed to buy up to another ten per cent . |
| 7 | This means that , whereas previously about fifty per cent of a museum 's budget would go on staff costs , next year almost the entire budget — over ninety per cent — will go on wages and staff costs . |
| 8 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 9 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 10 | Lending to individual borrowers in excess of 10 per cent of a bank 's capital base has to be notified to the Bank ; all exposures in excess of 25 per cent require prior notification . |
| 11 | A survey conducted on behalf of the Institute of Marketing into selling practice in the UK ( PA Consultants , 1979 ) found that , on average , only 20–30 per cent of a salesperson 's normal working day is spent face to face with customers . |
| 12 | In the first place it is proposed that the calculation of earnings-related pension is now based on 20 per cent of a lifetime 's average earnings ( forty years ) rather than 25 per cent of the best twenty years . |
| 13 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 14 | The importer is generally required to pay up to 20 per cent of the contract 's price out of his own resources . |
| 15 | The Working Party 's stance stems from the fact that 70 per cent of the Board 's distributable income arises from Test match generated funds , and therefore the Board sees as its ‘ principal function and power the promotion , financing and betterment of cricket generally with an essential object being the achievement of the highest possible standards at international level ’ . |
| 16 | The mean underwriting fee was 1.4 per cent of the issue 's nominal value . |
| 17 | Cinema surveys showed 46 per cent of the film 's audiences were over 25 who had loved the original . |
| 18 | Management commission rates vary , but a current average is 20 per cent of the artist 's earnings . |
| 19 | In 1991 , only 50 per cent of the SCO 's income came from the box office , compared to an average of 69 per cent . |
| 20 | However , under the current annual assessed UN contribution rates , Japanese was required to pay only 12.5 per cent of the mission 's cost , with the USA liable to pay over 30 per cent . |
| 21 | Some 70 per cent of the station 's power is to be sold to Hong Kong to bring in foreign exchange and service the Chinese debt . |
| 22 | Fortunately the Ecuadorian government is sympathetic and in 1982–83 will have paid at least 60 per cent of the station 's budget , or about $750000 . |
| 23 | They are most widely known as company secretaries ( which is the function of roughly 20 per cent of the UK 's chartered secretaries ) . |
| 24 | In volume terms , less than one per cent of the UK 's international trade is transported by air . |
| 25 | Although electricity only supplies 15 per cent of the UK 's energy demand , it consumes almost a third of primary energy from fossil fuels . |
| 26 | After this tranche has been drawn , the Fund 's holdings of sterling will be 100 per cent of the UK 's quota . |
| 27 | Manufacturing was 30 per cent of the UK 's GDP in 1950 , but had fallen to 25 per cent by 1984 . |
| 28 | When we look at UK multinational corporations ' direct investment we again see the impact of the break-up of the Commonwealth as an economic bloc : in the early 1960s Commonwealth countries accounted for 60 per cent of the UK 's overseas direct assets , but by 1984 this figure had declined to 32 per cent ( taking account of current and ex-Commonwealth countries ) . |
| 29 | Now a new report , prepared by the University of Reading 's Department of Agricultural economics and Management , reveals that those small farms make up more than 40 per cent of the UK 's farming industry , but are of ‘ negligible agricultural significance ’ , being responsible for only 2 er cent of all the UK 's agricultural production . |
| 30 | It estimates that by the year 2005 , 8 per cent of the UK 's surface area and 4 per cent of Scottish fresh water will be suffering damage from acid rain . |