Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] 5 [no cls] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 2 | This senseless slaughter takes place merely to try to catch a few extra tuna , and in fact the tuna caught through this method amounts to only about 5 per cent of the world 's total catch . |
| 3 | By 1980 only about 5 per cent seemed to be favourably disposed towards a return of the 1948 refugees , and this may have declined to 3 per cent during the 1980s . |
| 4 | Politicians , local and national , have been able to claim great progress on the housing front , referring to the increasing numbers of sheltered housing units , yet conveniently ignoring that only about 5 per cent live in this kind of accommodation . |
| 5 | Predation varies in its effects : when populations are at their peak , only about 5 per cent of small mammals are predated , while this can increase up to 50–88 per cent of the standing crop at low population levels ( Pearson , 1964 ; Southern & Lowe , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | For example , one research study cited by Mays ( 1983 ) suggested that only about 5 per cent of Asian elders live alone ( compared with 38 per cent of white old people ) ( Bhalla and Blakemore , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Only about 5 per cent of those generations never married — a very low proportion for Europe ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 8 | Overlap of turns occurs in only about 5 per cent of conversation or less , strongly suggesting that speakers somehow know exactly when and where to enter ( Ervin-Tripp 1979 ) . |
| 9 | However , with their emphasis on rehabilitation of stock and on area-wide environmental improvements , GIAs had a relatively limited impact , and only about 5 per cent of grants since 1969 have been issued within these areas . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Of those people in their sixties and seventies in the 1980s only about 5 per cent are in full-time employment past normal retirement age ; a somewhat larger number , around 10 per cent , let it be known that they work part-time ( Social Trends , 1979 , Table 11 ) . |
| 12 | Between the wars , nationally , only about 5 per cent of all subsidized dwellings were in the form of flats ; it was 40 per cent in London and 20 per cent in Liverpool . |
| 13 | ( The Financial Times of June 21 noted that these countries had in any case serviced only about 5 per cent of these debts in 1989/90 . ) |
| 14 | In an £8m programme AMI is doubling the resources in its psychiatric division , which accounted for just under 5 per cent of group sales last year . |
| 15 | Gross national product ( GNP ) grew by an average of just under 5 per cent in 1989 and 1990 , while the annual rate of inflation fell to below 3 per cent by the end of 1990 . |
| 16 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Japan now has 27 national parks , covering just over 5 per cent of the total land area , and over 50 quasi-national parks . |
| 18 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | But , with rental companies such as Britain 's Thorn-EMI backing the Japanese VHS system , the market share for Europe 's only manufacturer of recorders is still around 5 per cent in Britain and 20 per cent in Western Europe as a whole . |
| 20 | As a result , according to the 1985-based projections ( OPCS , 1988 ) , while population increase of 15 per cent or more are expected by the year 2001 in some counties ( e.g. Buckinghamshire , Wiltshire , Cornwall , Shropshire ) , Merseyside stands to lose over 9 per cent and Cleveland and Tyne and Wear both over 5 per cent of their 1985 numbers . |
| 21 | Polls in 1963 confirmed that in American eyes Britain was still the most dependable ally , but Gallup in July also recorded that West Germany ( 58 per cent ) was now only 5 per cent behind Britain . |
| 22 | Under house purchase schemes employees can buy property at concessionary rates of interest , often around 5 per cent . |
| 23 | About 5 per cent of the manual work-force was enrolled in an occupational pension scheme , and well under 5 per cent owned their own property : in consequence , most old people depended on selling their labour power in an over-stocked labour market in order to live . |
| 24 | At present the UK accounts for about 1.5–2 per cent of research spending on superconductivity , and NCS wants this to increase to match the UK share of all research ( currently about 5 per cent of the world total ) . |