Example sentences of "just under [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just under 50 per cent will be available for the individual investor if demand warrants . |
| 32 | The societies ' worst point came in 1987 when their market share was reduced to just under 50 per cent ; the banks had 34.5 per cent and other finance companies 16.3 per cent . |
| 33 | Over the last twenty years , women have made up just under 50 per cent of all convicted shoplifters . |
| 34 | Between 1979 and 1988 the total number of indictable offences known to the police ( ignoring offences of criminal damage of value 20 or less ) increased by just under 50 per cent ( the 1988 total was in fact 4.5 per cent down on the previous year ) . |
| 35 | The turnout was just under 50 per cent . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Admittedly the rise is small — from just under 24 per cent of the vote to 25.6 . |
| 38 | Burmah has just under 30 per cent , which could be sold on to SHV , or another party . |
| 39 | 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 ) . |
| 40 | In the remainder of the hundred these two groups accounted for just under 30 per cent . |
| 41 | Just under 30 per cent of black trainees obtain work as opposed to just over 45 per cent of their white counterparts . |
| 42 | He took over 69 per cent of the vote , as opposed to just under 30 per cent for his rival , former senator Narciso Irureta , seen as belonging to the left wing of the party . |
| 43 | 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 [ ] . |
| 44 | Among the older age-groups the proportion was even higher : just under 90 per cent . |
| 45 | As can be seen from table 6.6 , the proportion of all families with dependent children which are headed by a single parent increased from just over 8 per cent in 1971 to just under 12 per cent in 1981 . |
| 46 | As a result , remand prisoners in 1999 accounted for 22 per cent of the total population in custody , compared with just under 12 per cent in 1976 . |
| 47 | 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 ] . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 50 | Just under 20 per cent of the population , however , in both areas complain of spring/summer symptoms and in the oilseed rape area a proportion attributed their symptoms to this crop . |
| 51 | According to reports nearly 50 per cent of Spain 's 36,736 prisoners were believed to have some form of addiction and just under 25 per cent were said to be HIV positive . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Shop stewards have recommended accepting the offer of just under 9 per cent — worth £10 a week to most bakers — two extra days ' holiday by April 1991 to make five weeks a year , and other benefits , including better sick pay . |
| 55 | Among the groups that have increased , the largest single cause of the increase was divorce , 60 per cent ; an increase in the numbers of single mothers accounted for a further 34 per cent , lone fathers just over 3 per cent and separated women just under 2 per cent . |
| 56 | From 1955 to 1969 inflation averaged just under 2.8 per cent per annum . |