Example sentences of "and more than [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , toothbrushing is common even among pre-school children ; and more than 75 per cent of children use toothpaste by the age of 18 months . |
| 2 | By their mid-40s , more than 40 per cent of males and more than 80 per cent of females are sedentary . |
| 3 | Fifty-eight per cent of respondents reported that exchange-rate movements had affected their cash flows , and more than 80 per cent reported that they took action to protect cash flows — nearly 40 per cent by maintaining a foreign currency bank account , 24 per cent by taking out forward contracts and two-thirds by sending out their invoices in sterling . |
| 4 | The party increased its share of the vote by almost 4 percentage points , but nearly 7 per cent of votes cast went to the Greens and more than 5 per cent to the New Labour Party . |
| 5 | They represented about half the total number of families of the country and more than 60 per cent of the population , and were those which were most afflicted by the economic ravages of the inter-war years . |
| 6 | Children themselves held the greatest sway , and more than 60 per cent of mothers and father were influenced by their offspring . |
| 7 | As I said earlier , more than three quarters of recently retiring pensioners now have income from savings , and more than 60 per cent . |
| 8 | Friday 's uptick , leaving the index still close to its lowest level since January 1987 and more than 20 per cent down since the start of this year , was prompted by some old-style ‘ suasion ’ between the Ministry of Finance and the Big Four , Nomura , Nikko , Daiwa and Yamaichi . |
| 9 | The sum of these two figures was 2.5 per cent below the 1990 budget ( and more than 20 per cent below actual 1990 federal expenditure ) , the cuts being apparently largely due to the ending of subsidies to parastatals . |
| 10 | By the close of the Permian , 75 per cent of all amphibian families and more than 50 per cent of reptile families had vanished from the fossil record . |
| 11 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 12 | East Anglia is one of the biggest pig producing areas in the country , particularly for outdoor pigs , and more than 50 per cent are growing lean and strong thanks to compound feed from Burston . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Bougainville conflict [ see above ] affected the country 's economy adversely , as the giant Panguna copper mine , which had previously provided about 17 per cent of national revenue and more than 40 per cent of foreign exchange earnings , remained closed . |