Example sentences of "over 30 [no cls] cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Also , UK-based artists have been regularly responsible for over 30 per cent of the world 's record business . |
| 4 | During this time , heart rate slows to about one tenth of the normal rate , breathing almost ceases , body temperature falls dramatically and the hedgehogs lose over 30 per cent of their body weight . |
| 5 | The transport workers , GMB general workers , AEEU manufacturing union , Usdaw shopworkers and UCW postal staff are likely to be joined by at least two others — the Nupe public employees and Cohse health workers — which would guarantee Mr Smith just over 30 per cent of the total vote . |
| 6 | Levels of government expenditure on education dropped from over 30 per cent of national expenditure and 6 to 7 per cent of GNP in the mid-1970s to 22 per cent and 4 per cent respectively in 1985 . |
| 7 | The catastrophic effects of the most recent drought can be gauged fact that in 1967 the country imported over 30 per cent of its food requirements and yet only seven years later this figure had risen to a colossal 96.5 per cent in what is nominally an agrarian economy . |
| 8 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 9 | A survey of some Coventry council estates done by Shelter and Coventry Community Workshop in the seventies showed that over 30 per cent of tenants reported furniture ruined by damp . |
| 10 | Each autumn Rutland Water holds the biggest concentration of gad walls in Britain , over 30 per cent of the total population . |
| 11 | At a regional level it has been demonstrated that , in 1971 , over 30 per cent of the population in North Wales and Sussex was aged over 60 , compared with the national mean of only 19 per cent ( Law and Warnes 1975 ) . |
| 12 | In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate . |
| 13 | Overall , only just over 30 per cent of clauses had a filled or unfilled pause in clause-initial position . |
| 14 | A court in the Chinese city of Shanghai sentenced Li Xinghua for disfiguring Pan Ping , 24 , who was burned over 30 per cent of her body , including her face . |
| 15 | UK pension funds are the largest provider of capital to venture funds ( over 30 per cent of the total ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Tass reported in June that 20 per cent of electric power would be nuclear-generated by 1995 and over 30 per cent by 2000 ( compared with 11 per cent in 1989 ) . |
| 17 | CO2 emissions in the UK were 3 per cent of the global total and , on current trends , were estimated to rise by just over 30 per cent by 2005 . |
| 18 | In the Lake District too , Clark ( 1982a , 1982b ) cites an estimate of 11 per cent of stock being in use as second homes in the mid-1970s , with figures of over 30 per cent in some parishes . |
| 19 | This growth and industrial expansion of Belfast , and a corresponding famine in the south , facilitated a dramatic rise in the city 's Catholic population ( from 6 per cent in 1800 to over 30 per cent in 1861 ) . |
| 20 | On a geographical basis , merchandise trade within the West Pacific region increased by over 30 per cent in 1988 , that between North America and the West Pacific by over 20 per cent , that between Western Europe and the West Pacific and within North America each by about 15-16 per cent , transatlantic trade and trade within Western Europe each by about 14-15 per cent , and other trade flows by about 7 per cent . |