Example sentences of "[unc] of [noun pl] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the is saying to of er of savings is that in the Appendix Four summarises the possibilities for savings for next year . |
| 2 | In 1901 about four per cent of males and one per cent of females were literate in English . |
| 3 | Eighty-five per cent of women were alive after three years , compared with 81pc of men . |
| 4 | Interestingly this figure is consistent with that most often encountered in the literature in this area where usually between 70 per cent to 80 per cent of employers are favourable to young workers . |
| 5 | Overall , 83 per cent of respondents were satisfied with the NHS in Avon , Somerset , Dorset , Devon and Cornwall and even more — 89 per cent — were happy with their GPs . |
| 6 | Dad 's got a Thing against acting — ‘ Do n't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington ’ — he whines on about eighty-five per cent of actors being unemployed at any one time — ‘ All the travelling — the stress — actors with their massive egos … ’ |
| 7 | Eighty per cent of specialists were available to employing organisations in this way . |
| 8 | The Direct Mail Information Service 's 1992 trends survey has found 82 per cent of customers are satisfied with the last transaction they made by direct mail , six per cent more than last year . |
| 9 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 10 | In 27 countries studied in the World Fertility Survey , the proportions of married women still childless by age 40–9 varied from 1.3 to 6.7 per cent , and historical data suggest that 3 per cent of couples are sterile from the beginning of reproductive life ( Population Reports 1983 , Bongaarts and Potter 1983 ) . |
| 11 | A request by at least 10 per cent of voters was necessary for a ballot to be considered , and a vote by at least 50 per cent would then be needed to pass a recall motion . |
| 12 | In Malawi ( then Nyasaland ) in 1935 between 30 and 60 per cent of men were absent from their homes . |