Example sentences of "claim that [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 , the Metropolitan Police had claimed that 13 per cent of defendants were black ( Home Office 1984 ) . |
| 2 | The news agency Tanjug on July 4 reported an 86 per cent turnout of the population in Serbia itself ( i.e. excluding the two autonomous provinces , Kosovo and Vojvodina ) , and the authorities subsequently claimed that 96.8 per cent of these had supported the constitutional proposal . |
| 3 | Gallup , for example , claimed that 37 per cent of voters made up their minds in the last week and 10 per cent decided on the day of the election . |
| 4 | A report on the first three months of the system claimed that 77 per cent of contracts had been won by in-house tenders . |
| 5 | His diet excluded all these items and he claimed that 70 per cent of children improved considerably on this regime . |
| 6 | On Oct. 21 President Alberto Keinya Fujimori claimed that 90 per cent of Sendero 's leadership was now imprisoned . |
| 7 | By the end of February 1985 , the NCB claimed that 50.2 per cent of its estimate of the NUM membership was working , though the union itself claimed that 60 per cent were still on strike ( Jones , 1986 , p. 185 ) . |
| 8 | The Superior Electoral Court ( TSE ) issued the results of a survey on Oct. 6 which claimed that 60 per cent of the 84,000,000 people legally obliged to vote had made a " mistake " with their ballot papers or had not voted . |
| 9 | By the end of February 1985 , the NCB claimed that 50.2 per cent of its estimate of the NUM membership was working , though the union itself claimed that 60 per cent were still on strike ( Jones , 1986 , p. 185 ) . |
| 10 | Charles Booth found that 31 per cent of London 's population in the 1880s lived in primary or secondary poverty and a decade later Seebohm Rowntree claimed that 28 per cent of the people of York lived in equal hardship . |
| 11 | Diaka announced a 34-member Cabinet on Oct. 30 , in which he claimed that 40 per cent of ministerial posts were taken by members of the Sacred Union . |
| 12 | Local radio claimed that 50 per cent of young people between 14 and 25 were using heroin regularly . |
| 13 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 14 | In March 1990 a report from the Association of Directors of Social Services claimed that 36 per cent of local authority social services departments had had to cut services , stop new projects or impose charges as a result of pressure to keep the poll tax down . |
| 15 | It claims that 5 per cent of national energy requirements could be met by converting 500,000 hectares of agricultural land to produce biomass fuel sources like straw , elephant grass and poplar wood . |
| 16 | The company claims that 70 per cent of all charges are now processed in this way and its objective is to make it 100 per cent . |
| 17 | Nintendo claims that 50 per cent of British households now own one of their games , and research shows that the little man on the Game Boy screen is recognised by more children in America than Mickey Mouse is . |