Example sentences of "[unc] of respondents [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 68.55% of respondents answered ‘ yes ’ to this question . |
| 2 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 3 | Only 18 per cent of respondents knew even their local countryside very well , and 25 per cent of people rarely , if ever , visit it . |
| 4 | In December , 31 per cent of respondents agreed that RBS was a good place for a mortgage and only 19 per cent . |
| 5 | Only nine per cent of respondents expressed any dissatisfaction . |
| 6 | Seventy-one per cent of respondents wrote and said that the change they would most like to see was ‘ equality of opportunity ’ . |
| 7 | A telephone poll in Moscow , for instance , found that 42 per cent of respondents thought the results of the summit were ‘ very good ’ , and that a further 44 per cent thought they were ‘ good ’ ; at the same time only 37 per cent thought the treaty would strengthen the security of the USSR , and 8 per cent thought it might be detrimental to Soviet interests . |
| 8 | Some 24 per cent of respondents had encountered problems during the previous year with walking , 21 per cent with dirty streets , 19 per cent with traffic or trains around the home and 14 per cent with dust and smells . |
| 9 | Although she survived a no confidence motion on June 17 [ see p. 38299 ] , a BVA-Paris Match poll conducted on June 14-19 found that only 27 per cent of respondents had a " good opinion " of her ( as opposed to 43 per cent a month previously ) . |
| 10 | Seventy-five per cent of respondents said that sex was the same or better now than when younger . |
| 11 | Only about 10 per cent of respondents favoured a return . |
| 12 | Opinion polls revealed a parallel trend : at the end of 1955 only one per cent of respondents favoured a de Gaulle-led government ; in April 1956 five per cent ; in July 1956 nine per cent ; in September 1957 eleven per cent ; and in January 1958 thirteen per cent . |
| 13 | London , by contrast , came bottom with only 62 per cent of respondents saying they were satisfied with their health services . |
| 14 | Self-government for Scotland was given the thumbs-down by the Scottish business community , with more than 60 per cent of respondents saying that it would have a detrimental effect on business , while only 10 per cent thought there would be some advantage . |
| 15 | According to a pre-Budget survey of Scotland 's top 300 companies , carried out by System 3 for the accountancy firm , Ernst & Young , 72 per cent of respondents think that a further cut in business rates would have a favourable effect on their company , though , surprisingly , 4 per cent believe it would have an adverse impact . |
| 16 | Some 65 per cent of respondents provided career counselling services irrespective of any redundancy situation . |
| 17 | However , the 1989 AMERG survey asked specifically whether the ending of the mandatory scale had led to reductions of fees charged for individual projects and over 68 per cent of respondents stated that it had . |
| 18 | Fifty-eight per cent of respondents reported that exchange-rate movements had affected their cash flows , and more than 80 per cent reported that they took action to protect cash flows — nearly 40 per cent by maintaining a foreign currency bank account , 24 per cent by taking out forward contracts and two-thirds by sending out their invoices in sterling . |
| 19 | In a survey of more than 200 port operators ( which collectively account for over 70 per cent of all UK traffic movement ) 59 per cent of respondents reported an increase in competition since July 1989 ( 1 ) . |
| 20 | Other targets differed by region : in Japan , 89 per cent of respondents named consumers as a key audience , compared to just 43 per cent in Europe and 26 per cent in North America . |
| 21 | In October , 36 per cent of respondents disagreed that RBS was a good place for a mortgage and only 24 per cent agreed . |
| 22 | According to a survey carried out in RENFE in 1984 , for example , some 64 per cent of respondents claimed to be children of employees and 14 per cent to be grandchildren of railway workers ( Encinas 1986 : 53 ) . |