Example sentences of "with almost [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NLM candidate won with almost 70 per cent of the vote . |
| 2 | Following a first round of voting on April 26 in which no candidate won an absolute majority , Thomas Klestil , the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) candidate , was elected President with almost 57 per cent of the vote in a second round run-off on May 24 , with a majority in all nine Länder ( provinces ) , against Rudolf Streicher , 53 , the Social Democratic ( SPÖ ) Minister of Transport and Public Economy . |
| 3 | In an election for the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) in Alberta on Dec. 5 , Ralph Klein won a decisive second ballot victory with almost 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 4 | Despite these house price rises , housing conditions in Manchester remained poor with almost 30 per cent lacking exclusive plumbing facilities . |
| 5 | Iliescu won the presidency with almost 86 per cent of the popular vote , and the NSF secured more than two-thirds of the parliamentary seats . |
| 6 | However , rather more was usually allocated to capital projects : at least 60 per cent expenditure was so defined , with almost 90 per cent going to capital schemes in some councils . |
| 7 | When Mr Rocard made that speech , the ecologists were being credited with almost 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 8 | In the hundred years before 1851 rural population grew by only about 0.5 per cent per annum , compared with almost 2 per cent in the towns ( Law 1967 ) , despite the heavier urban mortality . |