Example sentences of "[that] nearly [num] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As a result of treating thousands of patients with sugar cravings , and discovering that nearly 80 per cent of a groups of 1,000 women with pre-menstrual syndrome also claimed to be suffering with sugar cravings , WNAS undertook a national study to determine the degree of the problem in general . |
| 3 | Data for 1987 suggest that nearly 80 per cent of families where the head of household is unemployed have incomes below 50 per cent of average income ( Oppenheim , 1990 ) . |
| 4 | Some 4,690 Wensleydale households took part in the survey which shows that nearly 10 per cent of local residents need immediate additional accommodation or will do so shortly . |
| 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 | This means that nearly 30 per cent of the population of France would have to visit Eurodisney each year . |
| 7 | A survey has shown that nearly 15 per cent of county 's buses are more than 15 years old and Mr David Newbegin , county environment director , said this week that older buses put people off using public transport . |
| 8 | Moreover , in the Pelileo-Patate region ( eastern Cordillera of Ecuador ) , Stadel states that nearly 60 per cent of the farms ( minifundia ) are less than 1 ha and some 94.3 per cent are less than 5 ha . |
| 9 | A survey in a Southwark Salvation Army hostel in 1987 found that nearly 40 per cent of men who had recently moved in had symptoms which pointed to a diagnosis of schizophrenia . |