Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the turn of the century , some two million men and women , rather less than 5 per cent of the working population , were employed in mines and factories . |
| 2 | In the 1960s , out of a higher total level of gold production ( which peaked in 1965 ) much less than 10 per cent reached the reserves , constituting an increase of a mere 3 per cent . |
| 3 | Erm I would n't there are ten per cent , well perhaps less than ten per cent who are absolute loonies . |
| 4 | All successful companies spend much more than 0.5 per cent . |
| 5 | It may not be much more than forty per cent of the voters , leaving the non-voters and the remaining sixty per cent of those who took part in the election to be governed by an administration which is not of their choosing . |
| 6 | The figures show a similar fall in the share of social product taken by government between 1979 and 1982 , of somewhat more than 6 per cent , followed by a substantial recovery in 1987 . |
| 7 | So , for example , £3000 interest for an investment of £97 000 is somewhat more than 3 per cent : it is 3/97 × 100 = 3.09 per cent . ) |
| 8 | In fact the purchasing power of a single person 's pension in Britain was just less than 75 per cent of the French pension , 60 per cent of its West German counterpart and only 50 per cent of the value of the equivalent Dutch pension . |
| 9 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , she makes up fifty per cent of the cast — the only other character is her master , Uberto — and sings rather more than fifty per cent of the music , so the drawback becomes quite a serious one . |
| 11 | In 1984 rather more than forty per cent of the total land area of England and Wales had been defined by local planning authorities as being within an area of special control . |
| 12 | It was the 200 or so unmarried or widowed women , who made up rather more than 25 per cent of the original sample , who remained as a solid phalanx of women compositors in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 13 | The reason for this seems to have been that until 1914 , the return on UK securities was very low , rarely more than 3 per cent , and better returns could almost always be obtained abroad . |
| 14 | In the nineteenth century it provided little more than ten per cent of government revenue . |
| 15 | The total land area is less than 0.3 per cent of the world 's total ; little more than 50 per cent greater than that of the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | Although Apple 's Macintosh machines have always offered high-resolution screens and excellent graphics and audio architecture , they represent little more than 12 per cent of the personal computers in use today . |
| 17 | A five-year survival rate in lung cancer is still less than ten per cent . |
| 18 | Adding the HCA operations would give it over 1,500 beds — still less than 20 per cent of the private hospital beds in the UK . |
| 19 | Interestingly , though the budget had risen to $18 million ( from around $9–10 million for Alien , seven inflationary years earlier ) , rentals were up hardly more than 8 per cent , from $40.3 million to $43.7 million ; the more conventional , apparently more ‘ popular ’ film actually drew fewer people to the cinema , at least in North America . |
| 20 | Still , though the English and the Germans sent hardly more than 10 per cent of their net demographic increase abroad , in absolute numbers this was a very large contingent . |
| 21 | Short term money market rates are still more than 4½ per cent and need to be much nearer 3 per cent . |
| 22 | Results showed that the President obtained slightly less than 82 per cent of the vote ( in 1985 he claimed to have received 100 per cent — p. 33963 ) , with his strongest constituency in rural areas . |
| 23 | The manager and chairman are such strangers to national television that probably less than 10 per cent of football fans would be able to name them , let alone recognise them . |
| 24 | GALLIFORD , the construction company , boosted full year returns by 30 per cent on the back of a full one-point increase in pre-tax profits margins to slightly more than 5 per cent . |
| 25 | ‘ In the event teachers received slightly more than 7.2 per cent . |
| 26 | In 1988 slightly more than 82 per cent of employed women worked in service industries as compared with 57.5 per cent of employed men . |
| 27 | And it is also good news to hear that his chances are now better than 50 per cent of playing this weekend . ’ |
| 28 | Experimentally it is found that while Hooke 's law and its viscoelastic analogue of Boltzmann 's superposition principle hold adequately for very small strains ( typically less than 0.1 per cent ) they certain do not hold for large strains of 10 per cent or more . |
| 29 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 30 | The Anglo population is now less than 50 per cent and continues to fall . |