Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] percent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like I say , the choice is yours hundred percent ! |
| 2 | And by the way , if we only give you fifty percent we 'll allow you to rattle our cage , which is a bit of a cheek really , but we 'll allow it . |
| 3 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 4 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 5 | What as as I said to you twenty percent of the messages a word sounds the same . |
| 6 | But you only pay him fifty percent of his salary . |
| 7 | It can be the worst layout imaginable , but he 'll go into it 100 percent . |
| 8 | they , if , I mean , if the pass mark is ninety percent and I 've already decided it 's worth a pass then I give it ninety percent you see ! |
| 9 | Is it five percent ? |
| 10 | You know if you 're out on strike you 're out on strike and must make it hundred percent , that 's how it is . |
| 11 | No they 're not , they got a was it thirty percent discount , first |
| 12 | If you only give us fifty percent , well I think we 've got funny conversations . |
| 13 | Anybody from forty to forty nine , will pay three percent and then they 've got this strange idea that ladies over the age of fifty are going to have more time off work through illness , so they 're going to charge us four percent , and the men three percent . |
| 14 | For years to come because if they stay out they give us hundred percent help to carry on with it . |