Example sentences of "about [num] percent of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 75 percent of the students are nationally ranked in tennis . |
| 2 | Cos if , if about eight percent of the people do n't have to vote anyway some people are n't gon na vote . |
| 3 | So , of the er , er yeah , of the people who were identified as being users ' , V D U users ' we 've had about eight percent of the replies have actually been returned , so we are chasing some . |
| 4 | I mean you might have about forty percent of the fund in shares and the rest will be input options , derivatives and all sorts of complicated devices . |
| 5 | Now in the years nineteen ninety one to nineteen ninety two Britain spent four hundred and five million pounds of its financial aid programme in Africa , about forty percent of the total and we shall continue to respond to the demands and challenges that Africa presents . |
| 6 | This would have given Israel about 10 percent of the original Mandated territory . |
| 7 | About was by far the commonest ( about 10 percent of the animals developed the virus ) , and there were a large number of hedges which were used before and after statistics , such as almost 10% , and 10%plus or minus , along with several multiple hedges , such as something of the order of 10% . |
| 8 | So what was the overall effect of rent transfer , of agricultural output as a result of the abolition of rent landlords ? estimates that the rental land was thirty three percent of the total land area in ninetee in nineteen thirty and about thirteen percent of the total value of agricultural output was transferred amongst households as rent before land reform . |
| 9 | The compulsory system now covers virtually all built-up areas , and about 90 percent of the total population of England and Wales . |
| 10 | And around about sixty percent of the overall provision as we calculate it is to accommodate migration led development in North Yorkshire . |
| 11 | About 80 percent of the total descriptions could be unambiguously assigned to one of the 40 junctions , either because the subject knew the road names or described the junction or events in sufficient detail for the description to be uniquely associated with one situation on their video . |
| 12 | Erm about ten percent of the product goes to Africa and Australia . |
| 13 | All Annamese peasants — and that 's about eighty percent of the population worship invisible spirits . |
| 14 | We 're still one of the richest countries in the world and a we , and er the people they ha , there 's the wealth is only about er ten percent of the people on , and about eighty percent of the wealth ! |
| 15 | well there was two parts to the brochure , erm , the , there was the general part within the brochure about eighty percent of the brochure was general for every development , the other twenty percent which would prefer specifically to that development , so there was a corporate field to the brochure , but for each development it would have it 's individual flavour , that would show pictures of the locality for example , hence the golf and the erm lake and the erm specific costs of running that , that responsibility would be the responsibility then of the region putting in , cos obviously at the centre I would n't know whether there was a golf course in that area or not . |
| 16 | To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing . |
| 17 | In nineteen-fifty-five , about eighty percent of the capital cost of a computer lay in its hardware , with the other twenty percent being invested in software programs to perform particular tasks . |
| 18 | By 2000 , there could be a surplus of up to one million hectares of arable land , and studies have shown that willow and poplar , which thrive on poor land , could provide about 6 percent of the UK 's electricity needs . |
| 19 | The scheme 's been so successful since it 's launch in 1990 that about 60 percent of the Borough 's household waste is now recycled . |
| 20 | Thus about 48 percent of the Pakistani/Bangladeshi group are aged 0–15 compared to 20 percent in the white population , and at the other end of the age spectrum only 2 per cent are aged over 60 compared to 21 per cent among the white population ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |