Example sentences of "under [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Between 1950 and the early 1970s the sector grew by just under 10 per cent and the increase was mainly made up of financial and commercial services . |
| 34 | It succeeded at a stroke in reducing tenanted land from over 45 per cent of the cultivated area to under 10 per cent . |
| 35 | The proportion averaged one in five for Inner London as a whole , but at borough level ranged from almost 30 per cent in Haringey to under 10 per cent for Kensington and Chelsea and was in fact highest for an outer borough — Brent — at 33.5 per cent . |
| 36 | It 's a far cry from the plight of the 1988 borrower , who took out a loan at a rate of under 10 per cent . |
| 37 | Inflation was a major concern during 1990 , running at just under 10 per cent . |
| 38 | Rainfall during the December-April rainy season was under 10 per cent of normal , and the country 's maize crop has been devastated . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | From 1955 to 1969 inflation averaged just under 2.8 per cent per annum . |
| 41 | Among the older age-groups the proportion was even higher : just under 90 per cent . |
| 42 | For comparison , the figure for the USA in 1970 in terms of net output was just under 35 per cent [ Hannah and Kay , 1977 ; Hart and Clarke , 1980 ] . |
| 43 | In 1972 the official unemployment rate was under 4 per cent , and of those questioned in the Nuffield survey , only 5 per cent told interviewers that they were currently out of work . |
| 44 | At the time of writing , the prime rate is 8 per cent and the rate of inflation is under 4 per cent . |
| 45 | The overall turnout was around 60 per cent compared with 76 per cent in 1986 , and an average in past elections of just under 80 per cent . |
| 46 | The increase in the industrial trade deficit was partly compensated for by surpluses on services and tourism so that the current-account deficit remained small in relation to gross domestic product ( GDP ) ( under 0.4 per cent ) . |
| 47 | Food and housing are still the two biggest bills but spending on eating has dropped from 33 per cent of the weekly budget in 1957 to just under 18 per cent . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | About 5 per cent of the manual work-force was enrolled in an occupational pension scheme , and well under 5 per cent owned their own property : in consequence , most old people depended on selling their labour power in an over-stocked labour market in order to live . |
| 51 | Gross national product ( GNP ) grew by an average of just under 5 per cent in 1989 and 1990 , while the annual rate of inflation fell to below 3 per cent by the end of 1990 . |
| 52 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 53 | AFTA would be implemented through the common effective preferential tariff ( CEPT ) mechanism , which would become operational in 1993 , and under which there would be tariff reductions to under 5 per cent on 15 groups of products by 2008 . |
| 54 | The SDP , the Human Rights Union ( HRU ) and the RP each secured under 5 per cent of the vote . |
| 55 | We had 15 per cent interest rates , inflation just under 11 per cent . |
| 56 | However , the biennial consideration of High Court Interlocutory fees produced an uprating of just under ten per cent over two years . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | In the late fourteenth century , between 1371 and 1401 when rural rents were declining , the number of tenements owned by the vicars-choral of the Minster increased from 183 to 238 , and the average rent rose from 6.7 to 7.1s. , an increase of just under 6 per cent . |
| 59 | As an example , Figure 5.2 shows that the likelihood of receiving home-help support in the last month rises from under 3 per cent in the 65–69 age-group to over a quarter for those aged over 80 . |
| 60 | Ostensibly agriculture has a fine record — between 1961 and 1973 labour productivity bounded along at over 7 per cent per annum , though overall growth of output at just under 3 per cent was less impressive [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |