Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] per cent in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opinion polls conducted immediately after the election showed 36 per cent against EC membership and only 32 per cent in favour . |
| 2 | Details of a report by the Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche ( WIIW — the Vienna Institute for International Comparative Economics ) , published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of April 19 , 1990 , showed that industrial production in member states of COMECON had risen by only 1.2 per cent in 1989 — the lowest ever recorded . |
| 3 | In the early 1950s , males over 65 made up 3.3 per cent of the total manufacturing work-force , but they were 4.1 per cent in shipbuilding , 5.9 per cent in cotton spinning , 5.9 per cent in cotton weaving , 10.9 per cent in lace textiles , only 2 per cent in motor-vehicle manufacture . |
| 4 | Electricity demand responded ( rising only 3.7 per cent in 1952/3 compared with 8.4 per cent in the previous year and 12.4 per cent in the year before that ) , thus providing some respite in the BEA 's struggle to keep up . |
| 5 | The draft budget for 1993 , presented to the Cortes on Sept. 29 and described by Economy and Finance Minister Carlos Solchaga Catalán as the most restrictive budget in 20 years , allowed for a central government spending increase of only 3.7 per cent in real terms ( 2.1 per cent of this allocated to debt servicing ) , with the budget deficit due to fall from 2.6 to 2.3 per cent of GDP ( Pta1,421,100 million — approximately US$13,930 million ) . |
| 6 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 7 | The study found that 72 per cent of employers in the top size band saw qualifications as useful as against only 30 per cent in the smallest , where 49 per cent saw them as not useful compared with only 12 per cent in the largest ( see ibid. , Tables 46 , 48 and 50 ) . |
| 8 | President Mauno Koivisto of Finland visited Moscow on June 24-25 for talks with Soviet politicians including President Gorbachev and Russian President-elect Boris Yeltsin ; talks centred on trade , the Soviet Union having accounted for as much as 25 per cent of Finland 's foreign exports in the 1980s but for only 12 per cent in 1990 and an expected 5 per cent in 1991 . |
| 9 | After achieving only 12 per cent in Colorado and less in every other contest , Kerrey cancelled his scheduled appearance in Florida and returned to Washington DC to " reassess " his campaign . |
| 10 | In 1937/8 the average UK ( industrial working-class ) household had to spend 40.1 per cent of its income on food , compared with 30.4 per cent for all households in 1961 , and only 19.0 per cent in 1987 . |
| 11 | In 1970 52 per cent of the population listened at some point during the day , but only 43 per cent in 1986 . |
| 12 | Half of all children in care in the Netherlands are placed with foster families ( Kampen , 1988 ) , against only thirty-one per cent in Flanders ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ) . |
| 13 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 14 | In a society such as the United Kingdom where over 50 per cent of workers are in the service sector compared with only 30 per cent in manufacturing , new technology in the office may have more consequences than robots in the factory for job loss . |
| 15 | The study found that 72 per cent of employers in the top size band saw qualifications as useful as against only 30 per cent in the smallest , where 49 per cent saw them as not useful compared with only 12 per cent in the largest ( see ibid. , Tables 46 , 48 and 50 ) . |
| 16 | The number who cited defence as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting decision rose from 42 per cent at the start to only 49 per cent in the third week and then it also stabilized at that level . |
| 17 | Electronics accounted for 21 per cent of aggregate manufacturing employment in 1991 , against only 7 per cent in 1981 . |
| 18 | This increased to 22.1 per cent in 1974 and subsequently never fell below 10 per cent in that decade . |
| 19 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 20 | But , as table 4. 1 shows , by the early 1980s the railways ' share of passenger traffic was well below 10 per cent in both countries , their share of freight traffic not that much higher . |
| 21 | In local elections held on June 7-8 in 341 municipalities throughout the country the two partners in the ruling coalition , the True Path Party ( DYP ) and the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP ) , won 35 and 23 per cent of the vote respectively ( their combined total having been only 47 per cent in the October 1992 general election ) . |
| 22 | Fifty per cent of cases involving three or more links were rated by social workers and police officers as ‘ poor communication ’ compared with only 10 per cent in cases of two links or less . |
| 23 | Of a sample of 696 women derived from London settlement examinations 1750 to 1760 , almost 60 per cent were between 15 and 29 years old , with only 10 per cent in their forties . |
| 24 | With prices rising by only 4.8 per cent in each year , this implied considerable real wage increases and a sharp fall in profitability . |
| 25 | A family earning the respectable artisan wage of 35s. per week was paying only 5.27 per cent in taxes and contributions , 3.65 per cent of this in indirect taxes . |
| 26 | The proportion of men aged 65–69 who are economically active has decreased particularly quickly , from 30 per cent in 1971 to only 11.4 per cent in 1986 ( Table 5.6 ) . |
| 27 | ( Economic growth had slowed from 4 per cent a year average in 1981-86 — modestly above population growth of 2.2 per cent — to only 2.8 per cent in 1989-90 . ) |
| 28 | The number of voters citing defence as the main issue they wished to see discussed by the parties rose from 3 per cent at the start of the campaign to only 11 per cent in the third week and then stabilized at that level . |
| 29 | Turnover increased by only 11 per cent in the face of competitive contract printing prices , said the board . |
| 30 | For example , deaths of members of the security forces were 54 per cent of total fatalities in 1985 , compared to only 18 per cent in 1976 . |