Example sentences of "was only about [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , registration of births was only about 95 per cent complete . |
| 2 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 3 | Although their population was only about 5 per cent of the total of rural Wales , some districts fared relatively worse than others , particularly in Powys ( Brecknock , Montgomery and Radnor ) and parts of West Wales ( Preseli and south Pembrokeshire ) . |
| 4 | In France , Italy and the USA , the decline was only about 2 per cent . |
| 5 | Its share of ‘ small systems ’ was only about 15 per cent , but due to grow . |
| 6 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 7 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |