Example sentences of "that [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | Laboratory tests revealed that only 32 per cent of the nitrogen content ended up as organic nitrogen compounds . |
| 32 | A warning note to the churches is that the report finds that only 14 per cent of children are in contact with a church . |
| 33 | For example , W. A. Speck 's work on division lists for Queen Anne 's reign shows that the vast majority of MPs voted consistently either Whig or Tory , with a mere 12.2 per cent wavering in their allegiance , whilst in a similar analysis of division lists for William 's reign , usually regarded as a period when party conflict was less clearly defined , Henry Horwitz found that only 14 per cent of MPs voted across party lines . |
| 34 | A poll has shown that only 52 per cent of MPs are in favour of the treaty in its present form . |
| 35 | The survey , in the British Medical Journal , also found that only eight per cent of doctors knew how to use a thermometer . |
| 36 | And study after study comes up , even in this brave new world , about the fact that only eight per cent or so of the child care is actually done by men , and this goes right across the classes . |
| 37 | The data which showed that only two per cent of calls came after 11 p.m. provided useful reassurance that statistically a broken night 's sleep was rare . |
| 38 | Unfortunately researches show that only two per cent of people are in this category and , therefore , qualify as ‘ all round ’ learners . |
| 39 | THE Health Education Authority is spending thousand of pounds on an anti-Aids campaign aimed at Asians — although its figures show that only one per cent of victims are Asian or Oriental . |
| 40 | In the reports it showed that only forty per cent of gay men were becoming infected , whereas ninety five per cent increase in heterosexuals , that 's very worrying . |
| 41 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 42 | In 1982 , a study found that only 2 per cent of sales in the previous six years had been flats ( General Household Survey 1982 , 1984 , Table 5.44 ) . |
| 43 | A report by the European Regional Airlines Association says that only 2 per cent of transport emissions come from aircraft , compared to 94 per cent from motor vehicles . |
| 44 | It is estimated that only 20 per cent of cases of sexually transmitted disease are seen in the specialist clinics . |
| 45 | The General Household Survey in 1979 found that only 20 per cent of economically active married men supported a dependent wife and children . |
| 46 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 47 | The Billy Graham organisation used to estimate that only ten per cent of their crowds came as a direct result of advertising and , generally speaking , I find that by itself it is the least cost-effective way of marketing events ; the most effective being personal invitation . |
| 48 | On applications , a survey by the Policy Studies Institute showed that only 49 per cent of industry is seriously considering microelectronic technology or using it already . |
| 49 | A survey over one year at Link showed that only 11.8 per cent of deafened people attending courses did not have tinnitus . |
| 50 | Church-going was being abandoned in favour of the new religion of DIY and other time-consuming pursuits , and research showed that only 3 per cent of the population still indulged in the great British institution of the Sunday lie-in , paper included . |
| 51 | A survey of six LEAs conducted for Rampton revealed that only 3 per cent of Afro-Caribbean school leavers gained five or more O level passes or CSE grade ones in 1978–79 , compared with 18 per cent of Asian pupils , 16 per cent of other school leavers in these LEAs and 21 per cent of all school leavers from state schools . |
| 52 | Doyal ( 1979 ) reports that only 3 per cent of consultants work entirely in the private sector . |
| 53 | In the Devon case studies , it appears that only 9 per cent of all the applications were granted without conditions , and in the two national park study areas the figures were 6 and 3 per cent . |
| 54 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 55 | Housing authorities have a general duty to house ‘ vulnerable ’ people but a recent survey by the National Children 's Home found that only 50 per cent of authorities would classify as vulnerable a young homeless person with no parents and no support . |
| 56 | Analysis indicated that only 50 per cent of the women could comply with the mobility requirement compared with 65 per cent of the men . |
| 57 | CALMS 's big snag is that only 73 per cent of homes have a phone . |
| 58 | The evidence of the 1949 Royal Commission on Population on the use of birth control techniques , recognised to be inadequate on the matter , suggests that only 40 per cent of women married between 1910 and 1919 used some form of birth control at some time in their marriage compared with 66 per cent of those married between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 59 | Birthplace data from the 1841 census onwards show that only 40 per cent of those aged over 20 ( the only people for whom data are available ) had been born in the town they lived in . |
| 60 | It showed that only 35 per cent of the survey sample intended to pursue careers as engineers in industry . |