Example sentences of "women and [adj] [unc] cent of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst 44 per cent of all women work part-time , 70 per cent of temporary women and 79 per cent of the sub-category of seasonal , temporary and casual women do so . |
| 2 | For women workers there is a different pattern : 47 per cent of Afro-Caribbean women and 52 per cent of Asian women are manual workers , while 37 per cent of white women are manual workers ; and 1 per cent of Afro-Caribbean women as compared to 6 per cent Asian and 7 per cent of white women are in professional and managerial occupations . |
| 3 | Figures for 1987 indicate that 27 per cent of divorced women , 17 per cent of single women , 15 per cent of separated women and 11 per cent of widowed women were cohabiting ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Sixty per cent of the single women and 47 per cent of the ex-married women no longer had any contact with their former partner . |
| 5 | A further 2 per cent of women and 4 per cent of men had income from private pensions not derived from past employment ( ibid . , |
| 6 | Up to 15 per cent of women and 10 per cent of men avoided it altogether . |
| 7 | One in 10 women and eight per cent of men say their vehicles are in a disgusting state . |
| 8 | Twelve per cent of women and 5 per cent of men regularly consume tranquillizers , and there is now a growing awareness of the addictive nature of these drugs ; numerous self-help groups have been established to assist people who want to stop taking them . |
| 9 | In their study of Women and Employment : a lifetime perspective , Martin and Roberts found that , in 1980 , 65 per cent of married women and 56 per cent of women with dependent children under the age of 16 were , in Great Britain , ‘ economically active ’ ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Perhaps even more significantly , ‘ 56 per cent of women and 57 per cent of men said they had no desire to go out any more than they already do ’ . |
| 11 | Between the ages of 65 and 69 , 37 per cent of lone women and 62 per cent of lone men had some sort of occupational pension . |
| 12 | Likewise Townsend and Wedderburn ( 1965 , Chapter 4 ) , studying elderly people over 65 in Britain in 1962 , found only I 1 per cent of non-married women with occupational benefits — 18 per cent of single women and 9 per cent of widows , the older women being the poorest . |
| 13 | He produced in 1975 the results of a large survey , hailed as the ‘ Italian Kinsey report ’ , in which he found that 50 per cent of Italian women and 25 per cent of men engaged in sex ‘ only to please ’ their partners ; that 46 per cent of women and 19 per cent of men faked orgasm ; and that 49 per cent of women and a surprising 32 per cent of men reported that they were virgins at marriage . |
| 14 | There was a slight tendency for GPs ' female referrals to have fewer psychiatric primary problems : 78 per cent , compared with 86 per cent of other women and 88 per cent of male GP referrals . |
| 15 | He produced in 1975 the results of a large survey , hailed as the ‘ Italian Kinsey report ’ , in which he found that 50 per cent of Italian women and 25 per cent of men engaged in sex ‘ only to please ’ their partners ; that 46 per cent of women and 19 per cent of men faked orgasm ; and that 49 per cent of women and a surprising 32 per cent of men reported that they were virgins at marriage . |
| 16 | Compared with 100 years ago marriage is now an almost universal experience i.e. 92 per cent of women and 86 per cent of men marry ( Rimmer , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Among full-time employees aged 16 and over , 54 per cent of women and 64 per cent of men are members of an occupational pension scheme . |
| 18 | A three-year follow up of a sample of elderly ( aged 65 + ) in Liverpool revealed that 44 per cent of women and 40 per cent of men defined as having organic brain disorders had died , compared with 11 per cent and 16 per cent of the well population . |
| 19 | Only 13 per cent of single mothers received any payments compared with 32 per cent of separated women and 40 per cent of divorced women . |