Example sentences of "60 and [adj] [unc] cent of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the beginning of the twentieth century the latter made up about 90 per cent of the population of the three western provinces , and between 60 and 85 per cent of Irkutsk , Transbaikal and Amur provinces , but in the enormous Yakutsk province and the far north-east it was still the non-Russian indigenous population which predominated , in a proportion of 13:1 . |
| 2 | Active sleep is easily identifiable with adult REM sleep , and the neonate will spend between 60 and 80 per cent of sleeping time in active ( REM ) sleep — ten to thirteen hours . |
| 3 | Indigenous communities in Guatemala , which make up between 60 and 75 per cent of the total population , form an underclass . |
| 4 | By 1965 it appeared that 48 per cent of retired men over 65 , but only 24 per cent of single women over 60 and 11 per cent of widows over pensionable age had employers ' pensions , younger women predominating among those women who had a pension in their own right ( Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance , 1966 , p. 154 ) . |
| 5 | Between 60 and 70 per cent of eggs came from the ‘ independents ’ such as the nuns who kept up to 10,000 birds . |
| 6 | Polls in 1971 and 1974 suggested that between 60 and 70 per cent of Jewish Israelis were wholly hostile while a further 21 to 27 per cent were moderately unfavourable to any return of the 1948 refugees . |
| 7 | At the moment the health authorities import between 60 and 70 per cent of their blood from the United States , where AIDS and hepatitis B contamination is rife . |
| 8 | Between 60 and 70 per cent of Salisbury 's clergy wives now work , and the church hierarchy encourages them to . |
| 9 | Depending on the country in question , between 60 and 90 per cent of the monographs , and up to 100 per cent in Scandinavia and Spain , already bear the 12 stars symbolising European publication . |