Example sentences of "only around [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voter turnout was only around 42 per cent , however . |
| 2 | However , despite these encouraging figures , marketing studies carried out in the USA show that most home-gym equipment goes unused and only around 10 per cent of American adults engage in brisk , regular exercise . |
| 3 | Only around 10 per cent claimed to recall the contents well and even fewer had made use of the response sheets provided on it . |
| 4 | The three major paper producers in northern Europe — Finland , Sweden and Norway — recycle only around 10 per cent of their paper . |
| 5 | The government had begun to introduce from March 20 monthly compensation payments on top of wages , pensions , student grants and child benefit , albeit conceding that these would cover only around 85 per cent of the cost of the price rises . |
| 6 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
| 7 | Since 1945 the distribution of university entrants by social class has been relatively stable with around 60 per cent coming from upper non-manual backgrounds ( social classes I and II ) ( Robbins , 1963 ; UCCA , 1986 ) , a group which until recently have comprised only around 18 per cent of the births . |
| 8 | Although safe and effective vaccines have been available for 10 years , only around 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Europe are vaccinated . |
| 9 | Yet they are credited with only around 40 per cent of the vote — exactly the same as their score in the 1981 general election in which the Socialists were swept to power . |
| 10 | As a percentage of joint gross national product ( GNP ) this represented an increase from the existing ceiling of 1.2 per cent ( although 1992 expenditure was calculated to come to only around 1.14 per cent ) to 1.27 per cent by 1999 . |
| 11 | Second , although the peer-group norm is characterized by speakers as Dyirbal rather than English , the extent of its Dyirbal admixture ( sometimes only around 50 per cent ) corresponds to the extent to which traditional Dyirbal features are controlled by the least fluent Dyirbal speaker in the group . |
| 12 | With a burden of about 150 kilograms — equal to more than a quarter of its body weight — a camel burns only around 15 per cent more fuel than it burns unladen . |
| 13 | In 1968 only around 15 per cent of the work force was unionized . |
| 14 | Only around 30 per cent of those who have been vaccinated go on to contract a mild dose of flu , and even then the risk of secondary infections is considerably reduced . |