Example sentences of "cent [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | INTEREST rates in Ireland touched an astonishing 60,000 per cent for a time as the Dublin government battled speculators . |
| 2 | McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) have shown how only 6 per cent of the time of patrol police is occupied with incidents defined as ‘ criminal ’ . |
| 3 | On the magazine , Jane 's main task was to wrestle with the anglicising of indifferent American short stories , while the particular harpy who was her boss gazed out of the window for ninety per cent of the time . |
| 4 | I 'd say I was happy with the way I look 90 per cent of the time ; I ca n't imagine myself any other way . |
| 5 | To have fun one hundred per cent of the time . |
| 6 | Also , even world class sailors only get it right about 80 per cent of the time , so by following someone you will never manage to beat them and you will often get lead the wrong way . |
| 7 | Successfully avoid talking more than 20 per cent of the time ? |
| 8 | Look at the other person for approximately 60 per cent of the time |
| 9 | Look at the other person for less than 50 per cent of the time . |
| 10 | Hypnosis may work better outside the laboratory ; we do not know because no one using hypnosis for the police has done properly controlled tests , although one American police hypnotist insists that hypnosis is helpful 90.1 per cent of the time . |
| 11 | His conclusion : ‘ We have an assay test that may be wrong 50 per cent of the time ’ . |
| 12 | This display of aesthetic preference is not absolute , but probabilistic : given a choice between two colours that we know from learning experiments they can distinguish reliably — purple and blue , for example — the bees will choose their favourite , purple , only 70 per cent of the time rather than 100 per cent . |
| 13 | Although a bee learns a flower 's odour almost perfectly in one visit , she must make several trips to learn its colour with precision ; and even then a bee never chooses the correct colour 100 per cent of the time . |
| 14 | The pain did , in fact , return the next day , but this experience had given me hope so I persevered with the lessons and now I am free of the pain for at least 95 per cent of the time . |
| 15 | For approximately 90 per cent of the time we are thinking about something other than the activity at hand . |
| 16 | It could appropriate 100 per cent of the time to its own business and utterly stifle debate by the opposition . |
| 17 | We get the occasional commission to work together — we had one in North Wales recently — but we work quite separately 99 per cent of the time . |
| 18 | Swahili language broadcasts took up sixty-three per cent of the time , while the rest was in English . |
| 19 | Since this provides the opportunity for the child to score correctly 50 per cent of the time simply by guessing , each grammatical contrast is presented in blocks of four items and the child is required to get all four items correct to pass on any block . |
| 20 | The babies had fifteen consecutive days with no ‘ accidents ’ and were reaching for the potty followed by elimination 80 per cent of the time . |
| 21 | FACT ONE : It can get to you , however silly it seems 90 per cent of the time . |
| 22 | Until now , he has had to be with his father 100 per cent of the time . |
| 23 | Predominant sugar conformer and per cent of the time that the individual sugar is in that conformation have been estimated from multiplet widths measured from DQF-COSY ( Fig.2 a ) according to the method described in Rinkel and Altona . |
| 24 | GILLIAN said you could n't make a general remark and then exclude half the human race , because fifty per cent of the time that someone will turn out to be female . |
| 25 | While Palermo ( 1973 ) , for example , found that four-to five-year-olds responded appropriately to more nearly all the time , but to less only 39 per cent of the time , an earlier study by Griffiths , Shantz and Sigel ( 1967 ) reported that children of that age understood both more and less almost equally well ( 70 per cent and 65 per cent ) . |
| 26 | Thus while standards were relaxed , this was accompanied by less tolerance of their breach , compliance being expected in 95 per cent , rather than 75 per cent , of samples : ‘ exposing ourselves five per cent of the time ’ , as a senior man put it , thinking of his agency 's sewage works . |
| 27 | One interesting reaction was that in stating , for example , that science should be taught to all pupils in some form or other in the last two years of schooling for 10–20 per cent of the time ( in addition to a broad course up to age 13 years ) , the DES was implicitly committing itself to increased resources , in terms of teachers and facilities . |
| 28 | For instance , two postures given by blue ties threatening each other at a bird table accurately predict escape about 90 per cent of the time ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 29 | Moreover , as Penfield and Roberts admit , the effects of cortical stimulation are not consistent since " electrical interference in a given area is only effective about 50 per cent of the time . |
| 30 | There 's a half-moon but it 's obscured ninety per cent of the time by a lot of low , fast-moving cloud producing occasional freezing gusts of rain . |