Example sentences of "over 60 [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With over 60 per cent of the French market tied up between them , the Peugeot-Citroen group and Renault could be forgiven for thinking they had little to worry about . |
| 2 | Already over 60 per cent of the world 's children are immunised . |
| 3 | Now , with unemployment set to reach two million by Christmas , they are no longer welcome and it 's estimated that over 60 per cent are unemployed . |
| 4 | Ethnic Croats and Muslim Slavs , who together make up over 60 per cent of Bosnia 's population , support independence while minority Serbs have vowed to fight to retain links with Serbia , which borders Bosnia to the east . |
| 5 | A third of these imports came from the region itself , but over 60 per cent came from the industrialised countries ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 6 | Even in the 1900s the national census returns show over 60 per cent of men over 65 employed , in England , the United States , and France . |
| 7 | Over 60 per cent of children aged five can be shown to have been infected with herpes virus , and this figure approaches 95 per cent in adults . |
| 8 | Over 60 per cent of cases occur in males , and it is much more common among the Negro races than Caucasians , although this may reflect the areas where it is endemic rather than any racial predilection . |
| 9 | This should not be taken too literally — not every rock in the crust is a granite — things like limestones are vastly different in composition — but the average composition of all the rocks on the continents is about that of granite and contains over 60 per cent of silica . |
| 10 | However , despite these controls and a general reduction in the proportion of local-government expenditure emanating from central government ( down from over 60 per cent of spending in the 1970s to well under 50 per cent in the following decade ) the Conservative governments elected in 1983 and 1987 decided to continue the process . |
| 11 | The World Bank has emphasised the need for increased agricultural investment in LDCs where over 60 per cent of the labour force is employed on the land , together with land reform ( re-distribution of land ownership in favour of peasant farmers ) . |
| 12 | Spring movements have been noted between 13 February and 3 June , but over 60 per cent . |
| 13 | An RAC survey also found that over 60 per cent of motorists are thinking of buying a used car , instead of a new one , in order to save money . |
| 14 | This method of acupuncture is also of value in over 60 per cent of cases of multiple sclerosis . |
| 15 | Turnover fell by over 60 per cent in the body plant in the same period , though it should be noted that unemployment was rising in Sweden and therefore turnover rates in SAAB as a whole were falling , though less fast than in the body shop . |
| 16 | For women , the number was down by over 60 per cent to 142 from 364 . |
| 17 | During the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries over 60 per cent of the parish churches in England were extensively rebuilt , normally in the magnificent Perpendicular style of Gothic architecture first employed in the construction of Gloucester Cathedral during the thirteenth century . |
| 18 | Over 50 per cent , and in some cases over 60 per cent said they would like to learn about the human heart , germs and illnesses , how our muscles work , what food is good for you , life in the sea , what makes a rainbow appear and how a record is made . |
| 19 | As to the discounts , these appear to range in generosity from 5 per cent to over 60 per cent . |
| 20 | Another marked feature of the service industries is the large amount of female labour they employ : among the highest levels were professional and scientific services where it was 70 per cent by 1970 and in both catering and retailing just over 60 per cent . |
| 21 | In support of this contention he quotes research done by Thorpe , who found in a study of long-term foster-children that only 27 per cent had contact with their parents every six months or more frequently and that over 60 per cent of natural parents did not know where their children were living , with only 21 per cent feeling encouraged by their social worker to maintain contact . |
| 22 | Similarly , the fact that over 60 per cent of Britain 's exports were dependent on the declining and low-productivity industries in coal , steel , shipbuilding and cotton , caused severe structural problems and rapidly increasing unemployment , when the new pattern of domestic and foreign demand became relatively stabilized in the 1920s . |
| 23 | By the turn of the century , the central industrial area around Moscow , the north-western area around St Petersburg , the major cities of Poland , and the Ukraine employed over 60 per cent of all workers . |
| 24 | Yet this is the very time we ask teenagers to make career choices , which may partly explain the findings that by age 35 over 60 per cent of men and women will say they chose the wrong career . |
| 25 | Very recent figures on the precise extent of subcontracting are difficult to obtain but the Fifth Basic Survey of Industry ( 1979 ) showed that over 60 per cent of small and medium-sized firms ( i.e. up to 300 employees ) were dependent on orders from other firms . |
| 26 | As women make up over 60 per cent of these categories their position in the labour market is not well represented by the wage structure data . |
| 27 | Of the population aged 65 years and over 60 per cent are female ( see Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 28 | In 1986 the European market for value-added network services was worth $900 million — with over 60 per cent of this in the two most deregulated larger markets , Britain and France , and only 16 per cent in West Germany and Italy combined . ’ |
| 29 | Traditionally , the C2 and D groups were the so-called ‘ mass market ’ , and they accounted for over 60 per cent of adults until the late seventies . |
| 30 | With over 60 per cent of households owning a VCR and virtually 50 per cent with at least two TV sets ; with 11 channels available via BSkyB 's Astra satellite , and over 10 per cent household penetration ; and video film rentals running at over 500 million per year ; the use made of a fairly stable total screen time per viewer is becoming progressively more diffuse . |