Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] about 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police .
2 Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position .
3 Men might also leave the land , members of Wigston families migrated to Leicester into commerce , and it reflects the mobility of the population that only about 10 per cent of the families there survived in the male line from 1377 to the time of Henry VIII .
4 reach the stage of proceedings being started , and only about 10 per cent .
5 Here , similar classes were emerging but only about 10 per cent were able to employ wage labour regularly and only 20 per cent provided it regularly .
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