Example sentences of "showed that [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very recent figures on the precise extent of subcontracting are difficult to obtain but the Fifth Basic Survey of Industry ( 1979 ) showed that over 60 per cent of small and medium-sized firms ( i.e. up to 300 employees ) were dependent on orders from other firms . |
| 2 | A survey of some Coventry council estates done by Shelter and Coventry Community Workshop in the seventies showed that over 30 per cent of tenants reported furniture ruined by damp . |
| 3 | In 1991 research in Strathclyde showed that over 49 per cent of children surveyed were working illegal hours and that 26 out of 65 children were working in prohibited environments or illegal jobs . |
| 4 | The 1981 census showed that nearly 97 per cent of people of pensionable age were thus accommodated ; while the recent dramatic growth of private residential care may increase the proportion in institutional care , the fact remains that they will remain a minute fraction of the elderly population . |
| 5 | It showed that nearly 50 per cent of the country 's conifers , and more than 25 per cent of its broadleaved trees , suffered from moderate or severe leaf loss during 1990 . |
| 6 | The German Foreign Ministry called for a fairer distribution of the burden of aid to the CIS , citing figures produced by the European Commission which showed that about 75 per cent of all aid to the Soviet Union since September 1990 had come from the EC and 57 per cent from Germany alone ( the figure included humanitarian aid , credits and special payments for troop withdrawal made by Germany ) . |
| 7 | But despite those promises , and despite Portugal 's generosity , a recent public opinion survey showed that about 50 per cent of Macao residents had no confidence in the future under Chinese rule . ’ |
| 8 | A survey carried out by local health workers showed that about 20 per cent of Faroese children had levels of mercury in excess of the safety limit as set by the International Programme on Chemical Safety . |
| 9 | The data which showed that only two per cent of calls came after 11 p.m. provided useful reassurance that statistically a broken night 's sleep was rare . |
| 10 | The French press was extremely critical , and opinion polls showed that only eighteen per cent of voters approved of what he had done , while forty-five per cent disapproved . |
| 11 | Figures from all the clinics in England and Wales in 1976 showed that only 16 per cent of attendances were by patients with venereal disease , as statutorily de fined , and only a further 40 per cent had infections that were definitely sexually transmitted . |
| 12 | However , an FOE survey showed that only 13 per cent of coolant from domestic refrigerators was being recovered by local councils ; many authorities had no collection scheme in operation . |
| 13 | However , official figures showed that only 29 per cent of the electorate participated . |
| 14 | Market research showed that only 15 per cent of US adults had made a ‘ foreign ’ trip in the three years prior to 1989 — and that included trips to Hawaii and Alaska . |
| 15 | It showed that only 35 per cent of the survey sample intended to pursue careers as engineers in industry . |
| 16 | It showed that only 35 per cent of the survey sample intended to pursue careers as engineers in industry . |
| 17 | A survey over one year at Link showed that only 11.8 per cent of deafened people attending courses did not have tinnitus . |
| 18 | Church-going was being abandoned in favour of the new religion of DIY and other time-consuming pursuits , and research showed that only 3 per cent of the population still indulged in the great British institution of the Sunday lie-in , paper included . |
| 19 | In the reports it showed that only forty per cent of gay men were becoming infected , whereas ninety five per cent increase in heterosexuals , that 's very worrying . |
| 20 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 21 | On applications , a survey by the Policy Studies Institute showed that only 49 per cent of industry is seriously considering microelectronic technology or using it already . |
| 22 | Widdicombe ( 1986 , para. 6.92 ) showed that only 43 per cent of local authorities paid special responsibility allowances . |
| 23 | Work by Chris Gordon on elderly people surveyed by the New Survey of London Life and Labour in 1929–31 showed that only 7.3 per cent of the 2,286 elderly people in his sample were in receipt of any direct financial support from their family , and this accounted for only 2 per cent of the overall income of this elderly population ( as shown in Table 3.1 ) . |
| 24 | Dr Dan Wright , research officer , says : ‘ Our findings contrast very much with a similar but much smaller study in the US which showed that almost 100 per cent of the study remembered exactly what they were doing when Kennedy was killed . ’ |
| 25 | Carried out nationally , this showed that almost ten per cent of urban African households now possessed radio sets ; in the rural areas , the audience was far more scattered and the figure lower than one in fifty . |