Example sentences of "under [adj] per cent of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest official evidence shows that just under 70 per cent of adults with a disability — 4.2 million people — are over the age of 60 , compared with 25 per cent of the general population . |
| 2 | Ethnic Georgians , who constituted just under 70 per cent of the republic 's population , were assumed to have voted almost unanimously in favour . |
| 3 | Recent opinion polls were reported to have given the party under 2 per cent of electoral support . |
| 4 | By 1979 , just under 30 per cent of the land in the reformed sector had been restored to its former owners ( Castillo and Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 5 | In 70–80 per cent of all streets in the town , the amount of time spent by the car driver is under 30 per cent of that of the total time spent by all other people on the street . |
| 6 | Just under 30 per cent of black trainees obtain work as opposed to just over 45 per cent of their white counterparts . |
| 7 | Hence the equation leaves unexplained just over 70 per cent of the total variance , or conversely it explains just under 30 per cent of the variance [ ] . |
| 8 | According to official figures there were 542,300 foreigners living in Austria , representing under 7 per cent of the population , a low figure by the standards of neighbouring countries . |
| 9 | Preceding the national survey , regional studies in 1981 and 1982 had suggested that under 10 per cent of German trees were affected . |
| 10 | By 1988 there were almost 300,000 , just under 10 per cent of the estimated population of Lebanon . |
| 11 | However , it is likely that well under 10 per cent of patients will need to be admitted to a psychiatric unit provided that other treatment facilities are available . |
| 12 | In 1980 , under 10 per cent of drinks bought were in plastic bottles , while in 1987 this figure has risen to nearly 40 per cent . |
| 13 | Rainfall during the December-April rainy season was under 10 per cent of normal , and the country 's maize crop has been devastated . |
| 14 | Under the system of proportional representation used in the 1986 election , his party managed to win 35 parliamentary seats with just under 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 15 | DEMOS took just under 55 per cent of the vote in the Socio-Political Chamber elections , which according to a proportional representation system gave it 47 of the 80 seats . |
| 16 | In an £8m programme AMI is doubling the resources in its psychiatric division , which accounted for just under 5 per cent of group sales last year . |
| 17 | The SDP , the Human Rights Union ( HRU ) and the RP each secured under 5 per cent of the vote . |
| 18 | It provided for a record deficit of 185,340,000 million forint ( US$2,260 million ) , representing just under 6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and slightly less than the deficit expected for 1992 . |
| 19 | However in East Anglia the South Downs group still supplied a large proportion ( this time somewhat under 50 per cent of the axeheads ) , whereas East Anglian sources , such as Grimes Graves , had apparently cornered only a small proportion of the market . |
| 20 | Over the last twenty years , women have made up just under 50 per cent of all convicted shoplifters . |
| 21 | The RAC 's campaign manager , Edmund King , said : ‘ Research shows that just under 50 per cent of experienced drivers would fail their driving test if they took it today . |
| 22 | Although there was an unclean caste , the Rodi , whose members were regarded not unlike Indian ‘ untouchables ’ , it was very small , accounting for well under one per cent of the population . |
| 23 | However , since new additions comprise under one per cent of the total stock each year , they will have only a trivial effect on the distribution of housing types in the near future ( it should be noted that conversions of dwellings are not included in the figures given above ) . |
| 24 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 25 | Bush made his statement after receiving a CIA report in mid-February , which had informed him that Israeli claims that under 1 per cent of Soviet immigrants were being settled in the " occupied territories " was only partly true , because a further 10 per cent were being placed in settlements in East Jerusalem . |
| 26 | Experts estimated that the change might allow the disposal under these regulations of about 30 per cent of US low-level waste , which would , however , contain under 1 per cent of total radioactivity . |
| 27 | C & G will give a fixed 0.5 per cent discount on its mortgage rate , but only for people who take loans of under 60 per cent of the property 's value . |
| 28 | Those people who learned before the age of 20 years , the majority of whom had deaf parents ( some had deaf siblings ) , are able to translate effectively just under 60 per cent of the information on average . |
| 29 | It has been estimated that in a narrow clinical sense the Famine probably accounted for under 15 per cent of the extra mortality recorded at the height of the disaster in Saratov in 1921–2 : but in a broader sense , including deaths due to severe malnutrition and other causes , the Famine contributed to most of the rise in mortality that took place before the 1922 harvest . |
| 30 | Education is also aiding the take-up of birth control , and use has increased from under 15 per cent of sexually active women in 1960/5 to 33 per cent in the early 80's . |