Example sentences of "nearly 30 per [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that nearly 30 per cent of the population of France would have to visit Eurodisney each year . |
| 2 | Reporting between 1976 and 1979 it showed how the share of the before-tax distribution of wealth of the top ten per cent had fallen from nearly 30 per cent in 1959 to 26.6 per cent in 1974–5 . |
| 3 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 4 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 5 | One of the main factors underpinning the share price was an anticipated shortage of water shares , because of the decision to scale down overseas allocations to increase the public offer from 23.5 to nearly 30 per cent of the offer . |
| 6 | Cabra , in which Bates has a stake of nearly 30 per cent , may settle for less than the £22.8 million if it takes into account other shareholders in its subsidiary company SB Properties , which owns the football ground . |
| 7 | There are nearly 30 per cent more public payphones and now , at any one time , 96 per cent of them actually work ! |
| 8 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 9 | For instance , nearly 30 per cent of the men in Townsend 's sample in ‘ managerial ’ occupations regarded themselves as working class , and at the other end of the scale 20 per cent of Butler and Stokes ' ‘ unskilled manual ’ workers regarded themselves as middle class . |
| 10 | Well over a quarter are aged under 20 years , of whom nearly 30 per cent are still at school , and nearly a quarter of all those in the labour force who are under 20 are working on a temporary basis . |
| 11 | Car crime , principally by young males , accounts for nearly 30 per cent . |
| 12 | The survey found that Wadworths , Youngs , Fullers , Marstons and Adnams among the regionals had all done particularly well from the provision , accounting together for nearly 30 per cent . |
| 13 | It was also nearly twice as dependent on Arts Council cash , with nearly 30 per cent of its income from the Scottish Arts Council — double the average of 14 per cent . |
| 14 | Fallow land rose by nearly 30 per cent to 37,000 hectares , of which just over 24,000 hectares was set-aside under the fallow option . |