Example sentences of "cent of the national " in BNC.
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| 1 | East German defence spending , at around 11 per cent of the national budget , is marginally higher proportionally than in West Germany . |
| 2 | After the liberation , elections were held in 1946 in which the Communists gained thirty-eight per cent of the national vote . |
| 3 | Last time the League took 1.3 per cent of the national vote , enough to get its rabble-rousing leader Umberto Bossi into the Senate . |
| 4 | In 1980 the income of Britain 's population aged over 75 was 67 per cent of the national average , compared with the other six nations where the income was 82 per cent of the national average . |
| 5 | In 1980 the income of Britain 's population aged over 75 was 67 per cent of the national average , compared with the other six nations where the income was 82 per cent of the national average . |
| 6 | In Finland , which is probably the world 's most northerly agricultural country , there has been a similar fall in dairy-cow numbers to about 607,000 in 1986 and the main milk breed is the Finnish Ayrshire , which now represents about 80 per cent of the national herd , the country 's only other breeds being the Friesian ( 17 per cent ) and the amalgamated Finncattle ( 2 per cent and decreasing ) . |
| 7 | Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country . |
| 8 | This Friesian type now forms 60 per cent of the national cow herd : there are more than 370,000 black-and-white cows . |
| 9 | Today , the US national forest system comprises 95 million ha of forest land , which is approximately 25 per cent of the national total ; the remaining area is privately owned . |
| 10 | With regard to the overall provision of services they show that only 18 out of the 47 English and Welsh County Councils spent within ±5 per cent of the national average per capita expenditure in 1984/85 . |
| 11 | Bombay 's population , 1 per cent of the national population , burns one-tenth of the kerosene consumed in the country . |
| 12 | But , in fact , the tables in the report show that while leukaemia rates for 1951–58 were 83 per cent of the national average , in the period 1971–1978 they had risen to 100 per cent . |
| 13 | When Harold Wilson took Labour to power with 48 per cent of the national vote in 1966 , he commanded the support of 70 per cent of manual workers and their families . |
| 14 | Even in the eighteenth century excise returns reveal that 12 big London breweries accounted for 25 per cent of the national production . |
| 15 | The East India Company 's nominal capital of £740,000 would have been about 2 per cent of the national income , though in fact only half of it was paid up until calls for fresh capital had to be made in the 1690s . |
| 16 | When the war came to an end England had spent about £40m. on it , or something like 10 per cent of the national income each year of fighting . |
| 17 | Production now accounts for more than five per cent of the national pig kill . |
| 18 | Between 1951 and 1971 Britain was urbanizing through an outward extension of commuter hinterlands , the populations of urban cores falling from 53.7 per cent of the national total to 47.9 per cent . |
| 19 | It is very clear that Schools/Industry liaison , as promoted through Partnerships such as Compact , is regarded as an essential resource for all the Core and Foundation subjects which will make up 70 per cent of the National Curriculum . |
| 20 | For the United States as a whole , the average monthly AFDC payment in 1980 was $313 ; no southern State paid above 75 per cent of the national average , however . |
| 21 | Incomes had also increased to 90 per cent of the national level by 1973 ( compared with only 65 per cent in 1960 ) . |
| 22 | In the mid-1960s its average income was 90 to 94 per cent of the national average , but by the mid-1970s it had fallen to 85 per cent . |
| 23 | The Wolfenden Committee 's ( 1978 ) survey of voluntary work in the social service field showed that 14 per cent of the national sample reported undertaking some work of that kind in a twelve-month period . |
| 24 | It did not simply result in a situation in which the Liberals won 2.2 per cent of the Commons seats in return for 19.3 per cent of the national vote since Labour also sneaked into office with only 37.1 per cent of the votes cast — less than the Conservative total . |
| 25 | Nahdah candidates , standing as independents in the April elections , won an estimated 13 per cent of the national vote , getting as much as 30 per cent in Tunis and other cities . |
| 26 | Revenues from oil and gas production were expected to amount to around 20,000 million kroner in 1990 , equivalent to nearly 7 per cent of the national budget . |
| 27 | Under the reforms , the President would chose the head of the new electoral commission , and any party receiving 35 per cent of the national vote would be guaranteed a majority ( 50 per cent plus one seat ) in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 28 | Unions claimed that over 90,000 registered disabled people would be affected by the plan to limit disability benefit , after an initial six years on a salary-related scale , to 70 per cent of the national minimum wage . |
| 29 | In 1424–25 its share of these was just over 46 per cent of the national total , in 1474–75 ( though perhaps exaggerated by the absence of the Bristol and Newcastle returns ) nearly 72 per cent and in 1524–25 81.75 per cent . |
| 30 | In the late fourteenth century three ports , London , Exeter and Yarmouth , imported similar quantities , each taking between 13.5 per cent and 15 per cent of the national total . |