Example sentences of "about 1 per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said yesterday that the share of urban land in the South-east would grow by about 1 per cent , at the expense of rural land . |
| 2 | In this case , between 1960 and 1975 , the dominant and bureaucratic-technical classes increased their share of national income by about 1 per cent , at the expense of the informal sector , which experienced a decrease of 1.3 per cent . |
| 3 | Later , it became clear that this material , despite its potency , contained only about 1 per cent of pure penicillin and that it was almost entirely composed of material which was not penicillin . |
| 4 | Whereas the domination of the white population , now only about 1 per cent of the total , has faded , new class structures have been developing . |
| 5 | Finally , the mortality rate is such that although toads can live for 40 years or more in captivity , only about 1 per cent of the population live to be eight years or more in the wild . |
| 6 | The BEA were also able to make savings of about 1 per cent of generation costs by centralising the purchase of coal and rationalising its transport , eliminating cross-hauling and sharing facilities such as sea-going colliers . |
| 7 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 8 | According to unofficial estimates M0 grew about 1 per cent in March , pushing the annual rate to about 5pc . |
| 9 | Current evidence suggests that the prevalence of this disorder is about 1 per cent for the population aged 65 — 74 and 10 per cent for those aged 71 + . |
| 10 | As only about 1 per cent of households have water meters , there 's still little information on how metering works in practice . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , perhaps the most startling statistic contained in it was that some one-third of the rail route mileage carried only about 1 per cent of the freight and passenger traffic , while one-half of the route mileage accounted for only 4 to 5 per cent of total traffic . |
| 12 | It is the number of first-time overseas holidaymakers , ‘ new ’ consumers for this particular market that has remained surprisingly stable through the late 1970s and early 1980s , increasing by about 1 per cent per year . |
| 13 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 14 | Employment expanded about 1 per cent per annum faster in the South than the North . |
| 15 | Demographic trends required more resources if the service was merely to stand still — an increase of about 1 per cent a year in the mid-1980s . |
| 16 | For elastic materials the above ratios of harmonics are found with an accuracy of about 1 per cent up to ninth order or more . |
| 17 | Amazingly , only about 1 per cent of the genetic information in , for example , human cells , seems to be actually used : roughly the equivalent of one volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica . |
| 18 | However , in the face of market expectations , the Bank took advantage of a money market shortage on 5 March to buy bills at a rate of discount of 11.75 per cent , 0.5 per cent higher than the previous day 's dealings and about 1 per cent above what markets were anticipating . |
| 19 | He no longer talks about 1 per cent . |
| 20 | ( About 1 per cent of the volume of Portugal 's trade in 1985-88 was with Eastern Europe . ) |
| 21 | The MDP had won 24 per cent of votes , but only a small number of seats ; the NPP and SDP had polled about 5 per cent each and the MPFL and the MPG about 1 per cent each . |
| 22 | A report on the economic outlook for Germany , published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) on July 5 , was optimistic about the prospects for the unified German economy , forecasting growth rates of 4 per cent for 1990 and 3@1/2 per cent for 1991 , with the additional costs of unification estimated at about 1 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , a level which the report regarded as manageable without significant tax increases , though the report did warn that wage increases in East Germany could eliminate jobs . |
| 23 | The changes were designed to save a total of 4,400,000 guilders , representing about 1 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) . |
| 24 | Consequently , although the modulus is high , specimen deformation is limited to about 1 per cent , due to the lack of glide planes in the disordered mass . |
| 25 | So successful has the state system been that it has lost only about 1 per cent of its operations to a private competitor under the system of tendering for the provision of local passenger services that was also introduced by the 1988 rail reforms . |
| 26 | With consumption growing at only about 1 per cent a year ( the rate of growth of the labour force ) , the system would have become one in which machines were being installed at hectic rates in order to produce other machines . |
| 27 | Between 1960 and 1968 materials prices rose about ½ per cent per year and final goods prices by about 1 per cent . |
| 28 | In the early 1970s the price of investment goods rose slightly faster than the price of output , whereas in the 1960s the price of output had risen about 1 per cent faster than the price of investment goods . |
| 29 | A prerequisite for the profit share being maintained was a fall in real wages of about 1 per cent a year between 1973 and 1975 . |