Example sentences of "just [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | Over two thirds of Japanese car workers operate in multi-skilled teams , compared with just 10 per cent in the UK , and the land of the risen yen puts in two and a half times as many hours training its new workers in those skills . |
| 32 | Pre-tax profits in the three months to end-December rose just 4.4 per cent to £236 million from £226 million in the same period last year . |
| 33 | By 1981 , it had fallen from being four per cent of the population in 1971 , to just 3.49 per cent . |
| 34 | Although it has picked up since , between 1984–85 and 1987–88 this slumped from 17 per cent to just 14.25 per cent . |
| 35 | But if the full peak-to-peak period , 1979 to 1988 , is counted , our average growth rate is just 2.1 per cent — the same as for the OECD countries as a whole . |
| 36 | The nearest competitor is Argus with just six per cent , with the remaining 60 per cent-plus accounted for by small , independent retailers . |
| 37 | A tidy 34 billion cigarettes are sold every year in Thailand to 64 per cent of Thai males ( but just six per cent of females ) over the age of 20 . |
| 38 | Including that holding , Owners was last night claiming the support of holders of more than 25 per cent of its shares , while Airtours , despite purchases in the market and the assent of what is thought to be Mercury Asset Management 's 15 per cent stake , claimed control of just 22.8 per cent . |
| 39 | For men in the 16-19 age group it was just 1.9 per cent , while for the 60-64 age group it was 10.2 per cent . |
| 40 | Vauxhall continues to close the gap on Ford , which now has the biggest market share by just 2.24 per cent . |
| 41 | A report on the development of Germany 's energy sector to 2010 , prepared by Basel-based consultants Prognos , concludes that a reduction of just 10.4 per cent can be expected . |
| 42 | A purchase of just 2.8 per cent of ICI last year was enough to spark talk of a pending mega-bid and cause gnashing of teeth among Labour politicians and union leaders . |
| 43 | More significantly , only a fifth believe lawyers should not involve themselves in the general running of other people 's businesses and just three per cent that they are currently too aggressive in selling their services . |
| 44 | The Chinese currently spend 10 to 20 per cent over and above their capital outlay on servicing their new computers over three years compared with just three per cent in the US . |
| 45 | Fifteen miles away in Witney Henry Box School reported just three per cent truancy . |
| 46 | Even by the 1970s , fewer university educated women took the contraceptive pill — just 21 per cent compared to 43 per cent of other women . |
| 47 | The level of manufacturing investment is now lower than in 1979 , and the growth in manufacturing output since 1979 is just 4.9 per cent . |
| 48 | In July 1978 , he announced bluntly that the government would commit the unions to a pay-increase norm of just 5 per cent for the next twelve months . |
| 49 | For launches with the space shuttle , however , underwriters are concluding deals with satellite operators where the premium is set at just 5 per cent . |
| 50 | Although only a small number of weapons had been eliminated , scientists had calculated that just 5 per cent of the weapons that existed were sufficient to destroy the world . |
| 51 | Cedric Brown , BG 's chief executive , said that competitors had taken over 27 per cent of total contract gas sales last year , compared with just 5 per cent in May 1991 . |
| 52 | Working on the basis that 8 per cent of the population is presumed to be gay or lesbian , their core document suggests that just 5 per cent of the adult audience in Glasgow represents some 34,000 potential ticket buyers . |
| 53 | Though weather disrupted loading at fields which transfer supplies to tankers , the firm said that total production from UK fields was just 5 per cent down at about 1.9 million barrels per day ( bpd ) . |
| 54 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 55 | But for Britain it is reckoning on just 0.4 per cent growth this year and 0.9 per cent in 1993 . |
| 56 | The turnout in the election was just 50.72 per cent , considerably down on the previous record low of 57 per cent in the 1983 upper house contest , and suggested that rather than registering anti-LDP votes with an alternative party , many voters had chosen to abstain from the electoral process . |
| 57 | As a result , they say the health service must quickly adjust to big shifts in demand among specialities : while general surgery patients will rise by just 4 per cent between 1986-95 , those in geriatric medicine will increase by 35 per cent , and those in urology by 42 per cent . |
| 58 | And even though we 're finally making strides at the secondary education stage , says Ward , the fact remains that 40 per cent of tomorrow 's talent still leaves school at 16 against just 4 per cent in Japan and 10 per cent in Germany , France and America . |
| 59 | Similarly , in the survey of 174 problem drug users in Brighton ( 90 per cent of whom were opioid users ) , 57 per cent were aged 26 years or older , and just 17 per cent were aged between 15 and 20 years . |
| 60 | He said January 's figures , showing inflation rising at just 1.7 per cent a year , were excellent news and added that surveys showed the UK would have one of the fastest growing economies in Europe this year and next . |