Example sentences of "and about [num] [unc] cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrongful dismissal actions seldom reach a full trial in the High Court and about 70 per cent of all unfair dismissal claims are settled or withdrawn without the need for a hearing . |
| 2 | This reveals that these companies accounted for about 40 per cent of manufacturing industry 's net assets , employment , and inward direct investment from overseas ( excluding oil company investment ) , 40–50 per cent of visible exports , 70 per cent of expenditure on industrial scientific research and development , and about 75 per cent of direct investment by UK companies ( excluding oil ) in manufacturing overseas . |
| 3 | ‘ Marius Steen made over his three houses and about 75 per cent of his other assets to his son some years ago . |
| 4 | The French record market is very conservative and about 80 per cent of the records in their chart are actually French . |
| 5 | About 30 per cent of polytechnic/college graduates and about 5 per cent of university graduates are the products of ‘ sandwich ’ courses which include either one ( year ) long placement or several shorter ones ( AGCAS 1989 ) . |
| 6 | Of the employment in new branches , about 50 per cent had relocated from elsewhere within the UK , 35 per cent from the local area or the region and about 14 per cent from abroad . |
| 7 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 8 | The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned . |
| 9 | Nearly 20 per cent of the bottom third and about 10 per cent of the top chose July on each occasion , possibly because it is both one of the two hottest and one of the two sunniest months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There are now more than 6400 restaurants in 41 countries and about 85 per cent of these restaurants are owned and operationed by franchisees . |
| 12 | It has a significant interest in the Harp lager consortium , and about 11 per cent of the take-home brown ale market . |
| 13 | ‘ At present , only about one per cent of police officers in England and Wales and about 1.5 per cent of Metropolitan Police officers are from racial minorities . ’ |
| 14 | In a previous double-blind trial , it had been found to be of value in about 70 per cent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and about 40 per cent of those with osteoarthritis . |
| 15 | Most of the projects are in Asia and about 40 per cent of the funds went to projects in very poor countries ; investment in fertilizers , chemicals and petrochemicals was the largest single group . |
| 16 | For example , those aged 65 and over accounted for one-third of all NHS prescriptions and about 40 per cent of acute hospital-bed occupation . |
| 17 | This suggests that the expansion is largely due to rural-urban migration , which is estimated to account for 40–70 per cent of urban growth in the post-war period up to 1970 ( Morse 1971 ) , and about 50 per cent since then . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 21 | Affiliates of TNCs accounted for about one-eighth of the Third World food processing industry , and about 90 per cent of this was in the branded goods and the export sector . |
| 22 | The team is weighing young children every month , and about 15 per cent of them have to go to intensive feeding , with high-energy milk to combat the symptoms of kwashiorkor . |
| 23 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
| 24 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 25 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |