Example sentences of "and [adv] 40 per cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And only 40 per cent of three to five-year-olds have access to pre-school education . |
| 2 | In a previous double-blind trial , it had been found to be of value in about 70 per cent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and about 40 per cent of those with osteoarthritis . |
| 3 | Most of the projects are in Asia and about 40 per cent of the funds went to projects in very poor countries ; investment in fertilizers , chemicals and petrochemicals was the largest single group . |
| 4 | For example , those aged 65 and over accounted for one-third of all NHS prescriptions and about 40 per cent of acute hospital-bed occupation . |
| 5 | Since 1985 profits growth in the division has been restricted to an average of less than 5 per cent a year and as 40 per cent of revenues come from the US the one third fall in the dollar over the period obviously affected the outcome as have rising R&D costs . |
| 6 | Flyda says that the cost of Flydaway should be about one tenth that of a conventional underground line , and roughly 40 per cent of elevated systems . |
| 7 | In 1987 it won 27 per cent of the Birzeit student vote , 85 per cent of the Hebron University vote , and over 40 per cent of the vote at al Najah , where the threat of violence between secular and religious students provoked the voluntary closure of the university until feelings had sufficiently abated . |
| 8 | In Khartoum and the Northern region , the vast majority of children get to primary school , and over 40 per cent of sixteen-to eighteen-year-olds are at secondary school . |
| 9 | Indirect evidence from the 1911 census suggests that about 20 per cent of married women born in 1831–45 ( and therefore marrying from the mid-1850s onwards ) and over 40 per cent of those born 1861–70 were controlling their fertility ( Matras 1965 ) . |
| 10 | Borrowing financed 31 per cent of spending in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1702 – 13 ) and over 40 per cent of that in the American war ( 1776 – 83 ) . |
| 11 | Half of those making this statement thought they would use it for experimentation and over 40 per cent for information handling . |