Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] only [num] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , W. A. Speck 's work on division lists for Queen Anne 's reign shows that the vast majority of MPs voted consistently either Whig or Tory , with a mere 12.2 per cent wavering in their allegiance , whilst in a similar analysis of division lists for William 's reign , usually regarded as a period when party conflict was less clearly defined , Henry Horwitz found that only 14 per cent of MPs voted across party lines . |
| 2 | Toyne ( 1977 ) , in a study in Devon , found that only 16 per cent of school leavers ' first-choice employment was manufacturing , while 59 per cent preferred jobs in offices , retailing or the public sector . |
| 3 | Although she survived a no confidence motion on June 17 [ see p. 38299 ] , a BVA-Paris Match poll conducted on June 14-19 found that only 27 per cent of respondents had a " good opinion " of her ( as opposed to 43 per cent a month previously ) . |
| 4 | Petras and Cook found that only 4.9 per cent of their sample of the top national bourgeoisie were nut dependent on technology that originated from abroad . |
| 5 | Gazzard et al. ( 1976 ) used a questionnaire to ask patients who had taken overdoses of paracetamol about their knowledge of the effects of this substance and found that only 11 per cent knew about the possibility of severe hepatic complications that can occur after an interval of several days . |
| 6 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 7 | In 1982 , a study found that only 2 per cent of sales in the previous six years had been flats ( General Household Survey 1982 , 1984 , Table 5.44 ) . |
| 8 | For example , on the north Norfolk coast McLaughlin and Singleton ( 1979 ) found that only 15 per cent of visitors had come to birdwatch , compared to 27 and 19 per cent respectively who had come to walk or sunbathe . |
| 9 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only 29 per cent of lone parents received maintenance from their former partners . |
| 10 | The General Household Survey in 1979 found that only 20 per cent of economically active married men supported a dependent wife and children . |
| 11 | Housing authorities have a general duty to house ‘ vulnerable ’ people but a recent survey by the National Children 's Home found that only 50 per cent of authorities would classify as vulnerable a young homeless person with no parents and no support . |
| 12 | The World Bank 's failure to provide significant funding for energy conservation has been criticized by environmental groups after a report revealed that only 1 per cent of the Bank 's £1,800 million investment in third-world energy programmes was devoted to conservation . |
| 13 | Laboratory tests revealed that only 32 per cent of the nitrogen content ended up as organic nitrogen compounds . |
| 14 | Empirical investigation using UK Department of Industry 1 km square data overlaid on polygon boundaries of north-west England employment office areas revealed that only 60 per cent of the points in the industry database could be positively assigned to an employment office area by being within a polygon and away from the boundary by a distance greater than epsilon . |
| 15 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 16 | A survey of six LEAs conducted for Rampton revealed that only 3 per cent of Afro-Caribbean school leavers gained five or more O level passes or CSE grade ones in 1978–79 , compared with 18 per cent of Asian pupils , 16 per cent of other school leavers in these LEAs and 21 per cent of all school leavers from state schools . |
| 17 | In 1921 Bowley estimated that only 41 per cent of working class families could depend on a man 's wage and of the families drawing public assistance during the 1930s fewer than one half depended on only one wage earner . |
| 18 | The Government Actuary in 1975 estimated that only 15 per cent of those who would have exercised the contribution option would choose to be full contributors when the new scheme took effect . |
| 19 | This publication , read in conjunction with several other contemporary research findings ( Dell 1971 ; Zander 1969 and 1972 ) , stated that only 4 per cent of defendants were represented by lawyers , usually solicitors . |
| 20 | Ukraine claimed that only 10 per cent should become CIS property , as the cost of building and maintaining the fleet had been borne by Ukraine . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However , official figures showed that only 29 per cent of the electorate participated . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It showed that only 35 per cent of the survey sample intended to pursue careers as engineers in industry . |
| 28 | It showed that only 35 per cent of the survey sample intended to pursue careers as engineers in industry . |
| 29 | A survey over one year at Link showed that only 11.8 per cent of deafened people attending courses did not have tinnitus . |
| 30 | 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 . |