Example sentences of "over [adj] [unc] cent [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Mordova on Dec. 22 the Democratic Russia candidate , Vasily Guslyannikov , defeated the incumbent , Nikolai Biryukov.In Yakutia , the incumbent , Mikhail Nikolayev took over 70 per cent of the vote on Dec. 22 . |
| 2 | By 1988 , it had almost doubled again to 600 , and boats based on Iwate took over 90 per cent of the total reported Japanese dolphin and porpoise catch . |
| 3 | ‘ In which case I will automatically take over sixty per cent of the assets . |
| 4 | He took over 69 per cent of the vote , as opposed to just under 30 per cent for his rival , former senator Narciso Irureta , seen as belonging to the left wing of the party . |
| 5 | However , by the latter years of the century , both Yarmouth and Bristol had declined , and London was taking over 71 per cent of the imports . |
| 6 | After he won last year Tolstikov , who also won the World Cup gold medal because the race was run in conjunction with the London event , had to hand over 20 per cent to the then Soviet federation . |
| 7 | Tribal communities — who have ownership rights over 97 per cent of the country 's land — are becoming more reluctant to sign agreements with the logging companies , the RIC says , while developments such as the " walkabout " sawmill are allowing them to operate their own small-scale logging operations in a more or less sustainable manner . |
| 8 | ‘ You wo n't lose control so long as you retain over fifty per cent of the shares , ’ Adam reassured her . |
| 9 | Over 75 per cent of the Dutch population have accounts at Postbank , though many of these are dormant . |
| 10 | He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 . |
| 11 | This survey , conducted in the mid 1950s when differences between US and Japanese culture were even greater than they are now , found a positive correlation of .87 between these two samples ' dreaming rates for the 34 topics — accounting for over 75 per cent of the variance . |
| 12 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 13 | Professor Davis has calculated that over 75 per cent of the growth in English exporting over the first half of the eighteenth century depended on either southern Europe or the Americas . |
| 14 | Hearn and Doyle , whose players won over 70 per cent of the prize money on the WPBSA circuit last year , would rather see greater efficiency and cost effectiveness . |
| 15 | This accounts for over 70 per cent of the combined reduction in annual surpluses , so if revenues fail to grow it is obvious where the axe will have to fall . |
| 16 | By the end of the century the link between state service and landed wealth had become markedly weaker : even among the highest ranks of the Civil Service , over 70 per cent of the personnel were landless , and the proportion was greater still in the officer corps . |
| 17 | While it is clear that an enormous range of interest groups exist in Japan , few would argue that small firms , non-unionized labour ( who make up over 70 per cent of the total ) , minority groups or the elderly have the same continuous access to the state as do large companies . |
| 18 | Social services costs account for over 70 per cent of the amount spent in the public sector . |
| 19 | There are villages in Lika , Kordun , Banija and Gorski Kotor , between Zagreb and the northern Adriatic coast , where over 70 per cent of the present-day inhabitants are Serbs . |
| 20 | More interestingly , where involvement in policy-making was concerned , was the activity of the standing commissions of the Supreme Soviet , on which over 70 per cent of the deputies served . |
| 21 | While a boycott by the ND , Communist Party ( KKE-Exterior ) and several left-wing parties meant that the Pasok candidate had no strong challengers , over 70 per cent of the electorate turned out , responding to the Pasok description of the vote as a referendum against the government 's austerity measures . |
| 22 | In the 30-member Tehran constituency all 30 members elected were pro-Rafsanjani candidates , and it was now claimed that over 70 per cent of the elected deputies supported Rafsanjani and the reformist policies of the grouping known as Jameh-ye Ruhaniyat Mobarez ( Society of Combatant Clergymen ) . |
| 23 | Hence the equation leaves unexplained just over 70 per cent of the total variance , or conversely it explains just under 30 per cent of the variance [ ] . |
| 24 | For instance , it has been estimated that over 70 per cent of the North American Cordillera is made up of displaced terranes ( Fig. 3.31 ) . |
| 25 | Around 2,500 people in this country suffer a head injury each day , but over 70 per cent of the seriously affected will get no follow up treatment . |
| 26 | The latest opinion polls , published last weekend ( no polls are allowed to be published in the final week before an election ) , predict that the conservative alliance of the neo-Gaullist RPR party and the centre-right UDF party will win over 70 per cent of the 577 seats in the National Assembly . |
| 27 | The largest minority group in Japan is still the burakumin , who comprise something over 2 per cent of the population . |
| 28 | In the financial period from February 1 to the end of June fares are up by over 30 per cent on the same period in 1991 . |
| 29 | The total in 1991 had been 256,112 asylum applicants , chiefly from Yugoslavia , Romania and Turkey ( an increase of over 30 per cent on the 1990 figure of 193,063 ) , and 221,995 ethnic Germans . |
| 30 | Also , UK-based artists have been regularly responsible for over 30 per cent of the world 's record business . |