Example sentences of "now [verb] about [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Finland , which is probably the world 's most northerly agricultural country , there has been a similar fall in dairy-cow numbers to about 607,000 in 1986 and the main milk breed is the Finnish Ayrshire , which now represents about 80 per cent of the national herd , the country 's only other breeds being the Friesian ( 17 per cent ) and the amalgamated Finncattle ( 2 per cent and decreasing ) . |
| 2 | This phenomenon affects all areas of the travel industry : the airlines , most of which had introduced some sort of business class travel by the mid-seventies , now sell about 50 per cent of all scheduled flight tickets to business travellers . |
| 3 | The decline in world interest rates , the slight improvement in commodity prices and the relative weakness of the dollar ( the unit in which nearly all debts were denominated ) meant that the total burden of interest and capital payments now represented about 26 per cent of total export revenues for the 20 most severely indebted middle-income countries which between them accounted for 44 per cent of world debt ; this compared with a debt service ratio of nearly 50 per cent in 1983 . |
| 4 | Farmers in California now use about 85 per cent of the state 's water while city residents face severe rationing after six years of drought . |
| 5 | Medical and pharmaceutical products now represent about 15 per cent of our total rigid packaging sales — a figure which will double by 1995–96 . |
| 6 | According to Alliance Internationale de Tourisme the private car now carries about 75 per cent of all travellers . |