Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] 40 per cent of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In about 40 per cent of these cases , there is some improvement in the situation of victims of human rights abuse . |
| 2 | Only about 40 per cent of the electorate vote in local elections ( the turnout in the 1985 English shire county elections , for example , was 41 per cent ) but such a figure can be highly misleading . |
| 3 | Only about 40 per cent of British boilers would meet the proposed standards . |
| 4 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |
| 5 | This is because only about 40 per cent of total costs are ‘ specific ’ to particular sectors ; the rest represents facilities , such as track , signalling and administration , that are shared by the different sectors . |
| 6 | Although safe and effective vaccines have been available for 10 years , only around 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Europe are vaccinated . |
| 7 | Yet they are credited with only around 40 per cent of the vote — exactly the same as their score in the 1981 general election in which the Socialists were swept to power . |
| 8 | The spread , too , of remote controls — again , in over 40 per cent of households — enables people to ‘ zap ’ commercials or whole commercial breaks . |
| 9 | These form just over 40 per cent of the East Bank population . |
| 10 | In just over 40 per cent of cases the husband was , as traditional , the sole earner , and , in roughly equal numbers ( 5 per cent each ) were cases where neither spouse earned , and cases where the wife was the sole earner . |
| 11 | Altogether about 40 per cent of public spending was directly cash limited . |
| 12 | All of a sudden it becomes frighteningly clear why over 40 per cent of the New Hampshire electorate were keen to see Pat Buchanan in the White House . |