Example sentences of "and [adv] [num] [unc] cent in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey of married owner-occupier couples in 1971 found that 42 per cent had the home in the husband 's name , and only 5 per cent in the wife 's name , the remainder being joint mortgages ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ) . |
| 2 | In 1986 the European market for value-added network services was worth $900 million — with over 60 per cent of this in the two most deregulated larger markets , Britain and France , and only 16 per cent in West Germany and Italy combined . ’ |
| 3 | In the Augsburger Nationalzeitung , the main Party organ for the region of Swabia , 62 per cent of announcements mentioned the Führer in June 1940 , only 29 per cent in November and December 1941 , and only 11.5 per cent in the last two months of 1942 . |
| 4 | The agricultural industry had ceased to be the greatest employer ; in 1914 about 43 per cent of the occupied population was working in agriculture in France , 35 per cent in Germany , 22 per cent in Belgium and only 8 per cent in Great Britain . |
| 5 | Opinion polls conducted immediately after the election showed 36 per cent against EC membership and only 32 per cent in favour . |
| 6 | Currently , the average UK company pension fund is invested 80 per cent in equities ( 60 per cent UK ) and and only 9 per cent in bonds — in sharp contrast to US and European funds which are invested about a third in bonds . |
| 7 | In 1937/8 the average UK ( industrial working-class ) household had to spend 40.1 per cent of its income on food , compared with 30.4 per cent for all households in 1961 , and only 19.0 per cent in 1987 . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 9 | Approximately 58 per cent of manual workers were employed in West Ham , compared with 74 per cent in local shops and only 33 per cent in clerical jobs . |
| 10 | While the drift out of industrial employment was common to all developed countries after 1945 , in Britain in 1975 the ratio of non-industrial to industrial employment was 41 per cent , compared with 32.8 per cent in Germany , 27.9 per cent in the USA , 22.5 per cent in France , and just 4.5 per cent in Japan . |
| 11 | Similarly , four of the five in the ‘ in-between ’ group held a ballot , with 52 per cent support in Northumberland , 50 per cent in Derbyshire , 41 per cent in Lancashire , and just 8 per cent in Cumberland ; there was no ballot in Durham . |
| 12 | That brings the officially acknowledged contribution of petrol-lead to blood-lead up to 30 per cent in adults and nearly 25 per cent in children and boosts the case against lead in petrol . |
| 13 | Ethnic minority groups account for 3.9 per cent of the economically-active working age population in Britain and about 10 per cent in London . |
| 14 | According to UN envoy Jean Ripert , sent to Jordan in October , the crisis would cost Jordan as much as 30 per cent of GDP in 1990 and about 50 per cent in 1991 . |
| 15 | After a visit to Amman in October the UN special envoy , Jean Ripert , estimated that the crisis would cost Jordan as much as 30 per cent of GDP in 1990 and about 50 per cent in 1991 . |
| 16 | Compared to the last major overhaul three years ago , there was almost a 90 per cent drop in ethylene dichloride discharge and around 80 per cent in vinyl chloride . |
| 17 | Just eight per cent of homes are rented from private landlords — compared with 45 per cent in West Germany and around 33 per cent in the US . |
| 18 | A combination of cars and aircraft provided over 80 per cent of passenger transport in Western Europe and over 95 per cent in the United States . |