Example sentences of "[adv] over [num] per cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using this combined treatment regime , the patients experienced considerable improvement in their condition in over 80 per cent of the cases , and most of this was achieved within two weeks . |
| 2 | Kiernan , Reid and Jones ( 1979 ) indicate its use in over 80 per cent of schools for children with severe learning disabilities . |
| 3 | Reflecting this gendered division of care , in over 80 per cent of households , women are ‘ mainly responsible for general domestic duties ’ , which include cleaning , washing and ironing , shopping and cooking ( Jowell et al . , |
| 4 | The spread , too , of remote controls — again , in over 40 per cent of households — enables people to ‘ zap ’ commercials or whole commercial breaks . |
| 5 | This is happening in over ten per cent of all the cases that are coming up before your agency or your government 's agency , whereby a working parent so-called absent according to you , is supporting not only his children , his ex-wife , or his e if it 's if it 's the husband supporting |
| 6 | This method of acupuncture is also of value in over 60 per cent of cases of multiple sclerosis . |
| 7 | If a man is suspected of having gonorrhoea , examination of the discharge from his urethra will demonstrate the organism in over 90 per cent of the cases when it is there . |
| 8 | Set up in 1991 , the service has received requests for traces from over 15,000 people and possible pension source has been located in over 90 per cent of cases . |
| 9 | Already over 60 per cent of the world 's children are immunised . |
| 10 | This meant that a " yes " vote was cast by just over 61 per cent of registered electors , and around 56 per cent of all Soviet citizens of voting age . |
| 11 | Just over 18 per cent of the Tiger Index Fund will follow each of the DTI approved markets such as Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia and half this percentage will go into others . |
| 12 | Just under 30 per cent of black trainees obtain work as opposed to just over 45 per cent of their white counterparts . |
| 13 | In 1424–25 its share of these was just over 46 per cent of the national total , in 1474–75 ( though perhaps exaggerated by the absence of the Bristol and Newcastle returns ) nearly 72 per cent and in 1524–25 81.75 per cent . |
| 14 | As can be seen from table 6.6 , the proportion of all families with dependent children which are headed by a single parent increased from just over 8 per cent in 1971 to just under 12 per cent in 1981 . |
| 15 | On the six new long-term capital issues they made between 1948 and 1955 to finance expansion — each for £100–200 millions — they paid a rate which rose from a little over 3 per cent initially to just over 4½ per cent by 1955 . |
| 16 | In 1984 just over six per cent of all workers , or some 1 .5m people , regarded their jobs as temporary . |
| 17 | On the basis of self-classification , just over six per cent of the labour force in Britain in 1984 could be described as having temporary jobs . |
| 18 | A consequence of the recession has been a reduction of just over six per cent in the 5,000 worldwide workforce in the past 12 months . |
| 19 | The Wellington trainer , who has a strike rate of just over 37 per cent at the Lancashire course , landed a double there yesterday with all-the-way winners Tri Folene and Star 's Delight , and it would come as no surprise if he doubled that score today . |
| 20 | Just over 10 per cent of the bottom two bands gave an answer which indicated they had used the wrong scale . |
| 21 | The provision of art and design education has grown relatively slowly in the post-war period so that in November 1979 , for example , there were only 34,707 students taking courses leading to recognized qualifications in art and design of whom 19,988 were on non-advanced courses , and 14,719 on advanced courses ; these represented just over two per cent of all students in further education studying for recognized qualifications . |
| 22 | Just over 70 per cent of students had been in receipt of an SERC award whilst on their Advanced Course . |
| 23 | Hence the equation leaves unexplained just over 70 per cent of the total variance , or conversely it explains just under 30 per cent of the variance [ ] . |
| 24 | For example , Britain received $3.2billion of the $12.8billion Marshall money — worth just over 7 per cent of all our imports of goods and services over the five years . |
| 25 | Grossing up their results the authors of the inquiry suggested that just over 7 per cent of all jobs in the economy were temporary . |
| 26 | Its importance sharply decreased for those in their early 20s , to stand at little above the average and fell gradually as age increased , to reach just over eight per cent for over-55 year olds . |
| 27 | Japan now has 27 national parks , covering just over 5 per cent of the total land area , and over 50 quasi-national parks . |
| 28 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Just over 43 per cent of the labour force was employed in manufacturing and construction in 1990 , with 2.5 per cent working in agriculture . |
| 30 | These form just over 40 per cent of the East Bank population . |