Example sentences of "cent of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a large amount in Saudi terms , but enough ; l per cent of every invoice paid out to contractors by the Ministry . |
| 2 | Five days of negotiations at Estoril , Portugal , ended on Nov. 20 with the Angolan government and United States-backed UNITA guerrillas having agreed on 80 per cent of a ceasefire document drawn up by a Portuguese mediating team , according to the Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation , José Manuel Durao Barroso . |
| 3 | The absence of H , C , and O recoils in the forward scattering spectrum indicates that the surface has less than 1 per cent of a monolayer of these atmospheric contaminants . |
| 4 | The ability to determine this level , referred to as the ‘ odour threshold detection value ’ is provided by dilution techniques , the value itself representing the number of times an odour-bearing gas has to be diluted with clear air before 50 per cent of a panel of sniffers will just not detect it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Making 99 per cent of a journey safe and convenient by foot or bike is futile if the remaining one per cent contains a dangerous road crossing or a threatening subway . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These included 20 per cent of Central TV and 15 per cent of Border ; a cable station ; and 25 per cent of a satellite music station , MTV . |
| 9 | As a result of treating thousands of patients with sugar cravings , and discovering that nearly 80 per cent of a groups of 1,000 women with pre-menstrual syndrome also claimed to be suffering with sugar cravings , WNAS undertook a national study to determine the degree of the problem in general . |
| 10 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 11 | Rose reported in 1953 that 79 per cent of a sample of unemployed older men in Hull knew ‘ that the country was asking people to stay on at work after retiring age ’ and 74 per cent of them thought this a ‘ reasonable thing ’ ( Rose 1953 ) . |
| 12 | Furthermore , even if agricultural jobs are available , they may not be attractive to those who live locally ; Cowie and Giles ( 1957 ) found that 40 per cent of a sample of out-migrants gave low pay and long hours of farm work as reasons for deciding to leave their home areas . |
| 13 | Hence the rule that anyone buying five per cent of a company must say so publicly . |
| 14 | Four people could each buy almost five per cent of a company . |
| 15 | Privatized companies were to be exempted from strict government wage controls and foreign share purchases amounting to more than 10 per cent of a company would require explicit permission . |
| 16 | The potential investors had been briefed in advance by Cuban officials on June 9 at the Mexican resort of Cancún , when it was made clear that almost all foreign investment was welcome , including in areas such as oil exploration , nickel , capital goods , textiles and agriculture , and that current rules limiting foreign ownership to 49 per cent of a company could be lifted . |
| 17 | In theory , if you buy over five per cent of a company , you have to declare it on the Stock Exchange . |
| 18 | Briefly , they limit the speed with which a person can increase his holding of shares or rights over shares to between 15 and 30 per cent of a company which is listed on the Official List of the London Stock Exchange or the Unlisted Securities Market . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In a larger study assessing endurance over nine days under different levels of sleep loss , the APRE reported that with no sleep at all soldiers could only operate effectively for four days , while with I.5 hours ' sleep a day 50 per cent of a platoon lasted nine days in the field , and nearly all of a platoon allowed 3 hours sleep completed the nine-day exercise . |
| 24 | Polarisation means there will be an end to the practice of claiming to be an independent financial intermediary when in fact 80–90 per cent of a firms policies are set up with a parent organisation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 27 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 28 | Yet the technical literature is littered with damning criticism of the LD50 ( which signifies the single dose of the substance under scrutiny necessary to kill 50 per cent of a group of test animals within fourteen days ) . |
| 29 | It only demonstrates that 77 per cent of a group ( those who abuse ) are male . |
| 30 | It was predictable that the onerousness of the rating task held down response rate somewhat ( 33 per cent of a target population of 200 ) , but less predictably , great suspicion was aroused by the use of multiplication as a way of combining the two components of need for change . |