Example sentences of "[adv] over [num] per cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The latest official figures ( for 1985 ) released by the Government show that just over 35 per cent of older people were living on incomes at or below the generally accepted Income Support ( then Supplementary Benefit ) poverty line , compared with 10 per cent of people under pension age . |
| 32 | The transport workers , GMB general workers , AEEU manufacturing union , Usdaw shopworkers and UCW postal staff are likely to be joined by at least two others — the Nupe public employees and Cohse health workers — which would guarantee Mr Smith just over 30 per cent of the total vote . |
| 33 | Overall , only just over 30 per cent of clauses had a filled or unfilled pause in clause-initial position . |
| 34 | CO2 emissions in the UK were 3 per cent of the global total and , on current trends , were estimated to rise by just over 30 per cent by 2005 . |
| 35 | However , for the Gosville Company the general picture was of increase from 1939 to 1949 , then a period of stability , followed by decline in service frequency of just over 15 per cent during the 1970s . |
| 36 | The official figure for voter turnout was over 1,600,000 people , representing just over 90 per cent of those registered to vote . |
| 37 | Estimates of the expected share of British exports of manufactures in world trade are necessarily crude but a conservative one puts it at at just over 11.0 per cent in 1975 as against an actual 9 percent [ Batchelor et al. , 1980 ; Panic , 1975 ] . |
| 38 | In other words just over 12 per cent of the total variance is still accounted for by non-market factors . |
| 39 | This reduces the effect of the synonyms to a figure that could have been achieved by choosing an initial packing density of just over 33 per cent for the file — but this file is 90 per cent packed . |
| 40 | People who work through and are paid by agencies numbered only some 50,000 in 1984 and made up only just over three per cent of the total temporary labour force . |
| 41 | Approximately a quarter of those unemployed 12 months ago but in work on the survey date were employed on a temporary basis , compared to just over three per cent of those in employment at both dates . |
| 42 | In the domestic market , which represents just over three per cent of coal output , marketing is handled by Central Marketing Services , created when the Solid Fuel Advisory Service was phased out in December 1989 . |
| 43 | In a news conference on Jan. 18 , 1990 , Borja announced that inflation had been brought down to just over 54 per cent in December 1989 after reaching a record 99.1 per cent in March ; a further objective of the administration had been to reduce the accumulated annual inflation rate to 30 per cent for 1989 . |
| 44 | The test yielded a mean score of just over 50 per cent for all pupils participating . |
| 45 | This would constitute an improvement of just over 50 per cent on the original return on the investment in XYZ Ltd . |
| 46 | Officials of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) observed that central government had contributed just over 50 per cent to the cost of the Games , while the flying of the Catalan flag and the use of Catalan as one of the four official languages of the Games had been agreed at the outset . |
| 47 | McCAW 'S revised offer for just over 50 per cent of LIN Broadcasting is cleverly structured . |
| 48 | Midland has currently made provisions against just over 50 per cent of its South American debt exposure , in line with Bank of England guidelines . |
| 49 | Back to our examples : it would be ‘ an act of vandalism ’ to weaken the top 20 arts clients , from Covent Garden down , who snaffle just over 50 per cent of all Arts Council and regional cash , while London and the south-east swallow 57 per cent of all funds . |
| 50 | Small scale studies indicate that households of this type are quite common , for example , for people of Pakistani origin living in Britain ( Anwar , 1985 ) and this is reflected in official statistics by evidence about the overall size of households : in 1985 , whilst less than one in ten white households contained more than four people , where people classified themselves as Pakistani , or Bangladeshi , just over 50 per cent of households were of that size ( Social Trends 1987 , p. 45 , table 2. 9 ) . |
| 51 | Presidential and legislative elections were held in November 1989 , when Callejas was elected with just over 50 per cent of the vote , and the PN won 71 of the 128 seats in the National Assembly [ see pp. 37038-39 ; 37275 ] . |
| 52 | This was just over 50 per cent above February 1990 , and five per cent more than in January . |
| 53 | Just over 65 per cent of homes are now owned by their occupiers , compared with 55.5 per cent in 1979 . |
| 54 | Admittedly over ninety per cent of people who took part in a survey said that they would want to be told ; but it is important to stress that the respondents were all healthy people , and in illness attitudes may change . |
| 55 | As a result , according to the 1985-based projections ( OPCS , 1988 ) , while population increase of 15 per cent or more are expected by the year 2001 in some counties ( e.g. Buckinghamshire , Wiltshire , Cornwall , Shropshire ) , Merseyside stands to lose over 9 per cent and Cleveland and Tyne and Wear both over 5 per cent of their 1985 numbers . |
| 56 | Probably over 80 per cent of our sensory impressions come through our eyes . |
| 57 | Now over 20 per cent of American households have a Nintendo , and the Atari VCS is just a fond memory . |
| 58 | Moreover , by the beginning of the 19th century , the rate of growth had become really fast — well over 10 per cent in ten years . ’ |
| 59 | Relations between China and Singapore were especially sensitive given that well over 70 per cent of Singapore 's population were of Chinese descent . |
| 60 | The gonococcus , a micro-biological master of male chauvinism , not only gives virtually no clues as to its presence in an infected female , but , should she attend a clinic or specialist for the purposes of diagnosis , it will only reveal itself m-some 50 per cent of cases at the first visit compared to well over 90 per cent of cases in males . |