Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] 10 [unc] [no cls] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South accounts for approximately 10 per cent of world manufacturing capacity at present , and the Report 's objective was to raise this to 25 per cent by the year 2000 . |
| 2 | In power since 1971 , he is a remarkable survivor among Arab leaders , the more so for being an Alawi — one of only 10 per cent of the Syrian population . |
| 3 | Drink sales averaged £180,000 per unit , showing an increase of approximately 10 per cent over the period . |
| 4 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 5 | The new company , which will be called Chiron , will have 1500 employees , although a reduction of about 10 per cent of the workforce is expected early in 1992 . |
| 6 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 7 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 8 | The aspirin and paracetamol market was worth £148 million — a healthy increase of almost 10 per cent on 1990 , said the market research group Datamonitor . |
| 9 | However , the process is by no means uniform and Table 5.3 shows that a small number of towns in the rural districts actually lost population between 1971 and 1981 , although the dominant trend was increases of over 10 per cent in both of the rural categories at the foot of the table . |
| 10 | As compared with regional showings in the GDR general election on March 13 , 1990 [ see pp. 37300-03 ] , the CDU share of the vote overall went up , due to an increase of over 10 per cent in support in Saxony ( where support for the DSU , however , dropped by a corresponding amount ) . |
| 11 | One estimate is that the new independent labels and distributors accounted , by the mid-1980s for nearly 10 per cent of British record sales . |
| 12 | The trial was halted after one year instead of the planned three after 20 per cent of patients taking only zidovudine died compared with only 10 per cent of those taking a ‘ cocktail ’ of zidovudine and acyclovir . |
| 13 | Twenty per cent of widowed , divorced and separated women aged 30–44 were carers , compared with only 10 per cent of men of similar age and status . |
| 14 | Aldo Rico , a former lieutenant-colonel who led abortive military rebellions in 1987 and 1988 [ see pp. 35560-61 ; 36203 ] and who claimed to be representing the " dispossessed " , came an unexpected third with only 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Over two thirds of Japanese car workers operate in multi-skilled teams , compared with just 10 per cent in the UK , and the land of the risen yen puts in two and a half times as many hours training its new workers in those skills . |
| 18 | BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost . |
| 19 | Largely because of migration patterns , the non-white population is also younger than the white population ; for example , around 4 per cent ( approximately 97,000 ) of the black and Asian populations had reached retirement age by 1986 , compared with around 10 per cent of the white population ( Patel , 1990 ) . |
| 20 | Outside London there was only a handful of districts with over 10 per cent of their population living in households with a NCWP-born head Luton and Slough in the South East , Birmingham , Sand well and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands , Blackburn in Lancashire , and the City of Leicester , being the highest at 21.7 per cent in 1981 . |
| 21 | Pesticides and defoliant residues on a swathe round the coast tens of kilometres wide of exposed seabed resulted in greatly increased heart disease , cancer , and deaths from chronic gastritis , kidney disease and tuberculosis , with over 10 per cent of children dying in their first year . |
| 22 | The company is the country 's third largest imported beer marketer , with over 10 per cent of the market . |
| 23 | In Britain and in the Netherlands it accounts For about 10 per cent of the total consumption of sugar , in Ireland for 8 per cent , in Germany and France for about 5 per cent . |
| 24 | In only 10 per cent of cases did social work or police ‘ discover ’ the problem on their own although they are the main carriers of the interrogative role . |
| 25 | Garel Rhys , professor of motor industry economics at Cardiff University , believes the motor industry needs a boost , and suggests that car tax should be cut from approximately 10 per cent to 5 per cent . |
| 26 | In both cases , the difference between shortest and longest repayment period involved a change from about 10 per cent to 50 per cent APR . |
| 27 | In particular , the massive increase in car ownership from about 10 per cent in the early 1950s , to about 58 per cent of all urban households and around 70 per cent of rural households in 1982 ( Phillips and Williams , 1984 ) has let more and more rural people travel to a greater range of destinations at their own time and convenience . |
| 28 | The table documents a growth in the proportion of those living by themselves from around 10 per cent in 1945 to over one-third in 1980 . |
| 29 | Neither does it reveal the decline in holdings of short-term assets , from over 10 per cent of the total in 1978 . |
| 30 | First , they see various loan options where the APR dropped from 49 per cent for six-month repayment periods to only 10 per cent for 36-month periods . |