Example sentences of "percentage of the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put this as a percentage of the number of aphids present at the beginning of the week : |
| 2 | A measure of the errors was agreed as the number of errors expressed as a percentage of the number of drawings issued . |
| 3 | More people own shares but , as a percentage of the number of shares held , the individual shareholding has fallen from thirty percent in 1979 to eighteen percent today , and if all these shareholders c turned up to exercise their right and their power at the annual meeting of British Telecom or British Gas , or any other , to say , we think it 's outrageous the sort of money that you are now paying your chairs and your directors , what would happen ? |
| 4 | And , the narrow base erm , excludes certain types of people , therefore the rates are always higher than the other way of calculating it , erm , it 's the number of unemployed as a percentage of the number of employees in employment , in their employment , plus the unemployed . |
| 5 | The figures in column ( 3 ) show the number of registered job-seekers as a percentage of the number of workers in the social sector ( both productive and non-productive ) . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact , the hunt is a very ineffectual way of controlling foxes , er they record the number they kill and it 's very , very few , a tiny percentage of the number of foxes there are in the countryside clever foxes er , as indeed I think Mrs mentioned , live in towns nowadays er , but there are still quite a lot in the countryside fortunately and they will survive er , though zoologists tell us er that er by instinct er they see that their numbers are controlled . |
| 7 | For example , frequency of nouns can be expressed as a percentage of the number of words in a text : X should normally be a more general , superordinate category including the feature being counted . |