Example sentences of "say that [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine in Holland runs a psycho-geriatric hospital and he says that approximately twenty per cent of the patients sent to him suffering from seeming senility , i.e. confusion , some incontinence , and anxiety attacks , are in fact suffering from prolonged overdoses of tea . |
| 2 | Reddy says that about 40 per cent of that reduction came from improving efficiency . |
| 3 | The report says that around 90 per cent of the world 's native temperate forests have been destroyed ( not including the former Soviet Union , for which data were unreliable ) . |
| 4 | MAFF says that only 1 per cent of the 2,500 samples analysed in 1990 and 1991 exceeded Maximum Residue Levels , although the Pesticides Trust commented that this was a worryingly high level for staple foods . |
| 5 | A report by the European Regional Airlines Association says that only 2 per cent of transport emissions come from aircraft , compared to 94 per cent from motor vehicles . |
| 6 | Khasbulatov also said that only 10 per cent of the population were living in satisfactory conditions , and that Russia was experiencing the " pauperization and lumpenization " of its people . |
| 7 | The same diplomatic source also said that only 10 per cent of FALA soldiers had been demobilized and that UNITA retained an effective force of 47,000 with heavy equipment intact . |
| 8 | The board 's inspectors said that about 40 per cent of incidents of pollution recorded there are due to contamination by silage effluent or slurry . |
| 9 | Vrba said that about 30 per cent of the workforce of the enterprises concerned would probably be made redundant after their sell-off . |
| 10 | A spokesman for National Power said that about 15 per cent of British coal had an even higher sulphur content than orimulsion . |