Example sentences of "to about [adj] [unc] [unc] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year . |
| 2 | Although average 1989 wage increases , at 9.5 per cent , ran well ahead of output , they slowed down in the fourth quarter , possibly helping to reduce the budget deficit to about 75 per cent of its planned level . |
| 3 | Such bonds are generally equal to about 5 per cent of the tender 's value . |
| 4 | What had changed was the distribution of employment so that although Japanese farms are very tiny , the threefold decline in agricultural employment to about 10 per cent of the labour force means that non-agricultural sectors now provide the bulk of small-firm employment . |
| 5 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |
| 6 | Thus the incomes of the lone parents were equivalent to about 57 per cent of those of the couples . |
| 7 | In particular , the massive increase in car ownership from about 10 per cent in the early 1950s , to about 58 per cent of all urban households and around 70 per cent of rural households in 1982 ( Phillips and Williams , 1984 ) has let more and more rural people travel to a greater range of destinations at their own time and convenience . |
| 8 | Cowie claims the problem applies to about five per cent of drivers who neglect their company cars , occasionally for bizarre reasons . |
| 9 | By 1989 , the transaction systems had grown to about fifty per cent of the total . |
| 10 | Using the data in the table , an argument is advanced that , whereas 21 per cent of working families had a short-term replacement rate of up to 60 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , by 1985 — 6 this had risen to about 44 per cent of families . |
| 11 | Given the straits to which the British economy was reduced in 1947 , when it was necessary to ration even bread and potatoes , an outflow of capital equal to about 8 per cent of national income and nearly equal to total net domestic capital formation ( including stock-building ) is a very extraordinary event . |
| 12 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 13 | ( 1976 ) have estimated that erosion has reduced the production potential of American cropland by 10–15 per cent , and that an estimated 5 gallon equivalent of fuel per acre is being used to offset past soil losses , which amounts to about 4 per cent of total oil imports in 1970 ( p.153 ) . |
| 14 | With staff costs amounting to about 70 per cent of the annual budget , any moderately competent company would at least ask whether this proportion was justified . |
| 15 | Single adults constitute 30 per cent of total lettings , with 13,000 of the group moving into association homes each year , most of them in poorly paid jobs or unemployed , whose rents amount to about 38 per cent of net income . |
| 16 | By 1988 this had dropped to about 15 per cent of spruce , and other species such as pine and fir showed similar improvements . |
| 17 | In 1992 the government made changes that cut local taxation to about 15 per cent of revenue income . |
| 18 | But today , says Carl Schlettwein of the Ministry of Fisheries , ‘ pilchard stocks are down to about 15 per cent of their full potential and hake to about 20 per cent . ’ |
| 19 | This would allow the contribution from gas to rise from 1 to about 15 per cent of the market . |
| 20 | According to Sedjo and Clawson ( 1984 ) plantation forests on a global basis occupy some 9 × 10 7 ha which is equivalent to about 3 per cent of the extent of the world 's closed forests . |
| 21 | Here something of a special case , aliens were common in most maritime shires , chiefly in seaports , like Great Yarmouth and Rye , though here and there penetrating farther inland , to work , for example , at ironmaking in the Weald of Sussex , a county where they amounted to about 3 per cent of all taxpayers . |
| 22 | For example , Tomei Industrial ( Holdings ) , an electronics company with 95 per cent of its production in China , accelerated expansion plans in Malaysia and Thailand , and hopes to cut China-based output to about 50 per cent of total production . |
| 23 | She might , as in 1986–7 , have to import 8 million tonnes of cereals , amounting to about 40 per cent of urban consumption , or , as in 1988/9 have a surplus of 3 million tonnes which could not be transported , and thus sold , to deficit countries . |
| 24 | BBC And Independent Programme Makers : Independent production should rise from 25 per cent to about 40 per cent of TV programmes . |
| 25 | On Feb. 25 Lamouri said that the Religious Affairs Ministry hoped to appoint new imams to about 40 per cent of the country 's 9,073 mosques , many of which , he said , had been taken over by individuals not competent to preach . |
| 26 | Extraction levels had fallen to about 86 per cent of 1991 quantities according to government calculations . |
| 27 | Ensuring sufficient money to finance the government machine has been a by-product of the third characteristic : maintaining savings and investment , which in all three cases ( Kenya , Cameroun and Botswana ) have risen substantially since 1960 , to about 25 per cent of the output of the economy in 1986 . |
| 28 | Consequently , the enterprises that received the dinar credits have seen their real values fall to about 2 per cent of their original value . |
| 29 | Correspondingly , the banks have seen their dinar assets in respect of these loans fall to about 2 per cent of the dinar value of their foreign liabilities . |
| 30 | United States and Canada , but in the United States gifts amount to about 2 per cent of the GNP , in Canada 0.7 per cent and in the United Kingdom only O.55 per cent . |