Example sentences of "only [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fringe benefits are also more significant for workers in large companies although their exact size is difficult to estimate because the Welfare Facilities Survey covers only the 50 per cent of labour in firms employing more than 30 workers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Over that period there has been only a 10 per cent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | During 13 years ' rule by the party of law and order the police have had only a five per cent increase in manpower . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | But it has been calculated that there is only a 4 per cent chance of dying if bitten by one of them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Without the abortion I 'd only a ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 20 | ( 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 . ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ We have only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding world catastrophe ’ , he told us . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , there was only a 50 per cent success rate — the experiment went off half-cocked . |
| 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 . |