Example sentences of "or about [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 2 | Since federal expenditure on administration was only 48 billion dinars , expenditure on this item by all other agencies appears to have been 355 billion dinars , or about 3.8 per cent of adjusted social product in that year . |
| 3 | In 1979 , for example , of the 80,000 full-time teachers employed in further education only just over 36,000 , or about 45 per cent , were trained in that they had successfully completed a course of professional training approved by the DES . |
| 4 | One result of this change was that the number of households enumerated was about 300 thousands more under the new definition or about 13 per cent ( Todd and Griffiths , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | The mean or average amount was nearly 8 a month or about 0.76 per cent of average earnings . |
| 6 | By the end of the decade it was importing 8–9 million barrels per day , or about 30 per cent of OPEC output . |
| 7 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 8 | Between 1960 and 1980 the total acreage devoted to food production in Africa increased from about 70 million hectares to about 100 million , or about 2.5 per cent per year , sufficient to sustain a population increase of about 2.7 per cent . |
| 9 | He partly supported this belief by the fact that of the 3,700 books or articles listed in the two-volume Criminology Index ( Wolfgang , Figlio , and Thornberry 1975 ) which reviews theoretical and empirical work in criminology from 1945 to 1972 , there were only ninety-two , or about 2.5 per cent , dealing with white-collar or corporate crime . |
| 10 | Environmental protection in the UK cost £14 billion in 1991 , or about 2.5 per cent of the country 's GNP , according to a report by the Department of the Environment , with about one third of the total being paid by the government and the rest by industry and consumers . |
| 11 | Between 1979 and 1990 , 1,250,000 council houses , or about 20 per cent of the total stock , was sold to sitting tenants . |