Example sentences of "survey found [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One survey found that over half of all shareholders ( 4.1 million ) owned stock in only one company ( Ku Rogerston , report in the Financial Times , 13 December 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the 1976 English House Condition Survey found that over 5 per cent of the rural housing stock was still unfit , and by 1981 this had risen to 6.7 per cent ( Department of the Environment 1978 , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | The 1964 British Election Survey found that just over half ( 51 per cent ) were satisfied with the status quo , and supporters of further nationalization outnumbered denationalizers by 28 to 21 per cent . |
| 4 | In contrast , another survey found that as many as 75% of security breaches are perpetrated by insiders . |
| 5 | The 1986 OPCS survey found that as many as 89% of regular smokers said that they bought cigarettes from shops . |
| 6 | A recent survey found that only about 60% of district health authorities were carrying out alphafetoprotein tests on all pregnant women in their district . |
| 7 | The British Crime Survey found that only about 8 per cent of incidents of vandalism were recorded in the official statistics , compared with 48 per cent of burglaries , and 100 per cent of thefts of motor-vehicles . |
| 8 | A recent Department of Employment survey found that only 13% of part-timers did such jobs because they could not find full-time work . |
| 9 | A review of the training content of junior doctors ' work is long overdue : a recent survey found that only 3% of juniors ' working time was spent on training . |
| 10 | The survey found that only four councils — Poole , New Forest , Bromley and Salford — had made use of these powers . |
| 11 | The Norwich Union Coastwatch UK survey found that almost half of the 2,185 kilometres of coastline surveyed by 6,000 volunteers showed evidence of litter and pollution . |
| 12 | CRIME-HIT small firms are demanding more powers for the police and courts today after a survey found that almost 50pc of them have been victims of some sort of crime . |