Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] than 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago lager accounted for less than 10 per cent of total beer sales . |
| 2 | Of the instrumental daily living activities jobs involving cleaning pose problems for about 20 per cent , while cooking is a problem for less than 10 per cent . |
| 3 | There are also career opportunities in teaching and planning , although these have accounted recently for less than 10 per cent of Geography graduates . |
| 4 | More than 40 per cent of the world population lives in China , India , Eastern Europe and South America , which account for less than 10 per cent of our sales today . |
| 5 | But he probably received a pay rise of less than 10 per cent in 1988-89 . |
| 6 | There is evidence now that both Paribas and AGF ( Assurance Generale de France ) have been allowed to build up stakes of more than 10 per cent in Navigation Mixte , a holding company with insurance and banking subsidiaries . |
| 7 | They will be pressing for a settlement of more than 10 per cent in what will be the most severe test of the Government 's inflation policy . |
| 8 | But in the following two years this proportion rose to an average of more than 10 per cent . |
| 9 | The precise reasons for these changes are hard to establish without further analysis of census material , but it should be noted that some of the population increases in rural areas ( sometimes of more than 10 per cent ) are from very low population bases and therefore are not great numerically . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman knows only too well that in his autumn statement my right hon. Friend the Chancellor was able to announce a £1.4 billion boost to the railways and London Transport and an increase of more than 10 per cent . |
| 11 | Contemporary observers were quite clear that the modest decline in marriage around 1870 could not account for more than 10 per cent of the fall in births ( Yule 1906 ) . |
| 12 | Agricultural pollution accounted for more than 10 per cent of total incidents , and for a third of the major ones . |
| 13 | Before the 1940s over 50 per cent of Bartholin 's gland infections were gonococcal in origin compared with less than 10 per cent today . |
| 14 | We wished to compare those living in the same areas ( as we did for arrest rates ) and decided to exclude areas with less than 10 per cent . |
| 15 | The analysis of arrest rates ( males aged 11–35 ) showed that in the whole city , Blacks had higher rates than Whites , but when the areas were grouped into those with less than 10 per cent . |
| 16 | With nationalized industries accounting for more than 25 per cent of the country 's non-housing investment ( compared with less than 10 per cent in the United States and Japan ) , the efficiency of the public sector had a considerable impact throughout the whole of the economy . |
| 17 | non-white and those with more than 10 per cent . |
| 18 | Although the report showed that the percentage of couples in developing countries using birth control had risen from less than 10 per cent in the 1960s to 51 per cent in 1991 , it stressed that its target of lowering global fertility from 3.8 to 3.3 births per woman required the number of couples using contraception in the developing world to rise from 381 million in 1990 to 567 million by 2000 . |
| 19 | Separation is not a sufficient cause of depression , because a depressive response of clinical proportions is not observed in more than 10 per cent of those who experience it … |
| 20 | The primary concentration consisted of London and the 25 contiguous SMLAs , in a dispersed area extending up to 60 miles from the centre , containing nearly 37 per cent of the population of England and Wales on less than 10 per cent of the land area . |
| 21 | In some Partnerships , voluntary-sector funding amounted to less than 10 per cent of total Urban Programme expenditure . |
| 22 | The early evening audience gap between BBC1 and ITV fell from 20 per cent to less than 10 per cent . |
| 23 | Only half of the loan was to be released initially , and the remainder in two instalments by 1993 , conditional upon the success in meeting targets , which included a reduction in inflation from the present annualized rate of over 20 per cent to less than 10 per cent by 1993 , and a reduction of the public-sector deficit . |
| 24 | In 1984–5 , over 7 million households , or one in three of all households , were in receipt of housing benefit , and the cost was equal to more than 10 per cent of the entire social security budget . |
| 25 | In 1199 his personal wealth amounted to more than 10 per cent of the total taxable wealth of the English Jewish community . |
| 26 | Privatized companies were to be exempted from strict government wage controls and foreign share purchases amounting to more than 10 per cent of a company would require explicit permission . |
| 27 | Australia remained in the midst of economic recession with gross domestic product ( GDP ) continuing to contract and unemployment rising to more than 10 per cent of the labour force . |
| 28 | Membership has always been voluntary , remaining at less than 10 per cent of the possible total and the considerable workload has been carried by a small , enthusiastic group . |
| 29 | The price of Paribas shares has soared by more than 10 per cent this week . |
| 30 | Only for five years between 1945 and 1983 has approval for the Prime Minister exceeded that of his party by more than 10 per cent , and Harold Wilson , and Harold Macmillan are the only post-war premiers to have retained the support of 50 per cent or more of the electorate for two successive years . |