Example sentences of "only [num] [unc] cent [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation is more acute in the rural areas when only 32 per cent of the population aged seven to fourteen years are enrolled at school . |
| 2 | Laboratory tests revealed that only 32 per cent of the nitrogen content ended up as organic nitrogen compounds . |
| 3 | For example , Beveridge allowed pensioners only 75 per cent of the scientific food value regarded as necessary for ‘ physical efficiency ’ , in addition to 10 per cent for special food needs . |
| 4 | Why does department X manage to enable all pupils to reach exam-entry standard , whereas department Y finds a steady dropping-out in terms of motivation and attendance , and its teachers seem content that only 75 per cent of the pupils take the exam ? |
| 5 | Only 51.7 per cent of the 1,440,000 registered voters reportedly participated . |
| 6 | Both rounds were marked by a very low turnout , with only 20.87 per cent of the electorate participating in the second round . |
| 7 | During the Battle of Britain , Air Chief Marshal Dowding had the incomparable advantage of information from Ultra and he monitored its signals very carefully ; he knew , therefore , that only fifty per cent of the German aircraft were then serviceable , and so , on 15 September he sent up every available fighter plane against the enemy . |
| 8 | Thirdly , there are amendments in the name of the Government of the er Noble Earl Lord which are Amendments ten , fifteen and twenty and these provide for greater flexibility in the size of police authorities , again between sixteen and twenty-four members to be determined by the Secretary of State and for the Bill 's existing proposition that er fifty per cent of the members should be er and only fifty per cent of the members , should be from local authorities that er er er er that er of the remainder some should be magistrates and some should be members appointed by the Secretary of State and finally er there is a series of amendments er by the Noble Lord , Lord , Amendment seventeen , eighteen and twenty-two and those provide again with flexibility of size for er police authorities that half of the members should be from local authorities and the other half should be magistrates . |
| 9 | The actual hardware , the turbine blades , covers only 2.3 per cent of the area exposed to the wind . |
| 10 | India 's growth rate has slowed by only 1.15 per cent over the last ten years , despite Indira Ghandi 's attempts to emulate China by offering a free transistor radio for every vasectomy . |
| 11 | But to begin with it will cover only 70 per cent of the country , excluding large chunks of the south coast where the cost of air time is highest and the pressure for competition greatest . |
| 12 | This display of aesthetic preference is not absolute , but probabilistic : given a choice between two colours that we know from learning experiments they can distinguish reliably — purple and blue , for example — the bees will choose their favourite , purple , only 70 per cent of the time rather than 100 per cent . |
| 13 | The Pilgrim Trust 's survey of a sample of unemployed men included some 170,000 wives and it was calculated that these women ate only 70 per cent of the calories consumed by men , rather than the 85 per cent recommended by dieticians . |
| 14 | Only 1.5 per cent of the actual enforcement decisions constituted prosecution , and of these cases all pleaded guilty and were fined on average only £50 . |
| 15 | The UK has lost 45 per cent of its ancient forest in the last 50 years , and only 1.5 per cent of the original forest cover remains , according to figures published by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 16 | It was reported from Brussels yesterday that EC officials had agreed that the Highlands and Islands ' gross domestic product reached only 79 per cent of the European average . |
| 17 | In order to try and give the market some confidence the government organised a temporary ‘ buy-back ’ scheme , which provided , in effect , a minimum support price for the shares ( only 2 per cent of the shares issued were in fact returned ) . |
| 18 | Work by Chris Gordon on elderly people surveyed by the New Survey of London Life and Labour in 1929–31 showed that only 7.3 per cent of the 2,286 elderly people in his sample were in receipt of any direct financial support from their family , and this accounted for only 2 per cent of the overall income of this elderly population ( as shown in Table 3.1 ) . |
| 19 | ( Only 2 per cent of the levy raised in 1990-91 went to renewables ; 98 per cent went to nuclear power . ) |
| 20 | At present , only 2 per cent of the country 's forests enjoy any protected status . |
| 21 | Preparations were set in motion to introduce by the end of the year a much shorter " core " list of restricted items , affecting only 30-50 per cent of the 116 items on the current list . |
| 22 | Although the KMT gained a majority in the Yuan , the party 's official candidates won only 53 per cent of the vote , compared with 71 per cent in elections to the National Assembly held in December 1991 [ see p. 38679 ] . |
| 23 | Since 1979 there has been a loss of over 1.5 million manufacturing jobs ; by 1987 manufacturing accounted for only 22 per cent of the British workforce , ‘ a figure more typical of countries with large fishing or agricultural sectors ’ . |
| 24 | The company insists that a takeover would give it only 22 per cent of the total market for white and brown goods — everything from washing machines and fridges to video recorders and hi-fi — and small electrical appliances . |
| 25 | These are the areas in which the remaining forest lands are located ; now only 22 per cent of the country is forested in comparison to nearly 100 per cent in 1900 and 66 per cent in 1945 ( Myers 1988 ) , which in itself constitutes a loss of revenue as timber exports ( a major source of foreign currency ) have declined in the last 20 years . |
| 26 | The pattern of relative abundance of Ichneumonidae is quite different : nearly a third of the 455 species trapped during 1972–73 were represented by single individuals , and the seven commonest species made up only 22 per cent of the catch . |
| 27 | But this effect had declined to only 22 per cent by the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 28 | When Mr Salekh , a popular poet , stood in a two-way contest against Mr Karimov in December 's presidential election , he gained only 12 per cent of the vote . |
| 29 | Only 12 per cent of the ‘ No ’ voters — 6 per cent of all voters — admitted that they were voting against the president , and this by no means implies that they would necessarily have otherwise voted ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 30 | The study found that 72 per cent of employers in the top size band saw qualifications as useful as against only 30 per cent in the smallest , where 49 per cent saw them as not useful compared with only 12 per cent in the largest ( see ibid. , Tables 46 , 48 and 50 ) . |