Example sentences of "[unc] cent of [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 90 per cent of exports are to the US , where Indian software systems cost half as much as American ones . |
| 2 | Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , police of the Gipton Urban Crime Unit , whose job is to improve the quality of life in an area where as many as 60 per cent of families are on income support , are concerned that special Government funding for the unit will stop on March 31st . |
| 4 | However , the survey did find that 89 per cent of rivers , 90 per cent of canals and 90 per cent of estuaries were of either good or fair quality . |
| 5 | Nearly 17 per cent of Indians are in Birmingham and Coventry , with most of the rest in West Yorkshire , and the East Midlands . |
| 6 | Furthermore , 66 per cent of respondents were against the return or even the 1967 refugees . |
| 7 | In a recent survey , 70 per cent of respondents were against restricting the provision of nonessential treatments ( Davies 1991 ) . |
| 8 | Some 85 per cent of speeds are between 20 and 30 km/h at the humps and 30 to 35 km/h in the spaces between . |
| 9 | The analysis showed that 40.9 per cent of claims were for hepatitis B. |
| 10 | Around 35 per cent of goods were to be sold at unregulated prices , or at prices agreed between supplier and retailer , while prices for a range of other goods ( including food staples such as milk , eggs and sugar ) , and public transport fares , were to rise to a new fixed level . |
| 11 | During his two-day visit , Rao recalled the strong cultural and religious links between the two countries — an estimated 52 per cent of Mauritians were of Indian origin . |
| 12 | The risk factors for osteoporosis are well known , yet despite its prevalence — perhaps 25 per cent of women are at risk of osteoporotic fractures — and the severe consequences of such fractures , little priority is currently attached to developing preventive and screening approaches to this condition . |
| 13 | Sixty-seven per cent of men compared with 42 per cent of women were on state benefit excluding child benefit and retirement pension ( universal to parents and the retired elderly ) ( p=0.013 ) . |
| 14 | More than 80 per cent of deputies were from the Azerbaijan CP , while the opposition deputies from the Popular Front , the Social Democrats , the Greens and the Union of the Democratic Intelligentsia united in parliament in an umbrella Democratic Bloc of Azerbaijan . |
| 15 | A poll has shown that only 52 per cent of MPs are in favour of the treaty in its present form . |
| 16 | Small scale studies indicate that households of this type are quite common , for example , for people of Pakistani origin living in Britain ( Anwar , 1985 ) and this is reflected in official statistics by evidence about the overall size of households : in 1985 , whilst less than one in ten white households contained more than four people , where people classified themselves as Pakistani , or Bangladeshi , just over 50 per cent of households were of that size ( Social Trends 1987 , p. 45 , table 2. 9 ) . |
| 17 | A warning note to the churches is that the report finds that only 14 per cent of children are in contact with a church . |
| 18 | By the early 80's 80 per cent of children were in comprehensive schools — the system not having been adopted by all education authorities . |
| 19 | The membership differential between men and women is particularly marked in engineering ( 65 per cent of men are in an occupational pension scheme and 48 per cent of women ) , hotels and catering ( 41 per cent of men and 28 per cent of women ) and transport and communications ( 71 per cent and 54 per cent ) ( OPCS , 1990 , p. 223 ) . |
| 20 | Women tend to earn less than their male counterparts ( women 's wages were 73.5 per cent of men 's in 1979 ) , and to be in less stable areas of employment and more frequently in part-time work than men ( Bruegel , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | These increases in women 's relative wage rates , from about 65 per cent of men 's in the 1960s to 75 per cent by 1975 , can be shown to have substantially reduced the number of births during the 1970s — by 130,000 — and made their timing more volatile ( de Cooman , Ermisch , and Joshi 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In a society such as the United Kingdom where over 50 per cent of workers are in the service sector compared with only 30 per cent in manufacturing , new technology in the office may have more consequences than robots in the factory for job loss . |