Example sentences of "[prep] under [adj] per cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C & G will give a fixed 0.5 per cent discount on its mortgage rate , but only for people who take loans of under 60 per cent of the property 's value . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that in a narrow clinical sense the Famine probably accounted for under 15 per cent of the extra mortality recorded at the height of the disaster in Saratov in 1921–2 : but in a broader sense , including deaths due to severe malnutrition and other causes , the Famine contributed to most of the rise in mortality that took place before the 1922 harvest . |
| 3 | Enrolments in the private sector have grown from under 14 per cent of total enrolments in 1984 to nearly 20 per cent in 1988 . |
| 4 | As an example , Figure 5.2 shows that the likelihood of receiving home-help support in the last month rises from under 3 per cent in the 65–69 age-group to over a quarter for those aged over 80 . |
| 5 | Education is also aiding the take-up of birth control , and use has increased from under 15 per cent of sexually active women in 1960/5 to 33 per cent in the early 80's . |
| 6 | The proportion averaged one in five for Inner London as a whole , but at borough level ranged from almost 30 per cent in Haringey to under 10 per cent for Kensington and Chelsea and was in fact highest for an outer borough — Brent — at 33.5 per cent . |
| 7 | AFTA would be implemented through the common effective preferential tariff ( CEPT ) mechanism , which would become operational in 1993 , and under which there would be tariff reductions to under 5 per cent on 15 groups of products by 2008 . |
| 8 | The authors also show ( Table 5.1 ) that the percentage of graduates in all the 31 subjects in their study employed after three years in the three largest type of work categories for that subject ranged from 100 per cent in three subjects ( pharmacy , graphic design , electrical engineering ) to under 60 per cent in three others ( science , English literature and interfaculty studies ) . |
| 9 | Figures for the first pregnancies conceived before marriage show the same trend , falling from around the 40 per cent in the early nineteenth century to under 20 per cent in the early twentieth century . |
| 10 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |