Example sentences of "revealed [conj] [adv] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study of Uruguayan professionals who graduated in 1970 , revealed that barely 11 per cent came from families in which the father worked in skilled or unskilled manual occupations . |
| 2 | A BP survey , for example , revealed that barely 30 per cent of internal reports in that organisation came up to the mark . |
| 3 | A 1975/6 random daytime survey for the Department of the Environment revealed that over 7 per cent of the tapwater in England exceeded the EC limit while in Scotland the figure was over 34 per cent . |
| 4 | The World Bank 's failure to provide significant funding for energy conservation has been criticized by environmental groups after a report revealed that only 1 per cent of the Bank 's £1,800 million investment in third-world energy programmes was devoted to conservation . |
| 5 | Laboratory tests revealed that only 32 per cent of the nitrogen content ended up as organic nitrogen compounds . |
| 6 | Empirical investigation using UK Department of Industry 1 km square data overlaid on polygon boundaries of north-west England employment office areas revealed that only 60 per cent of the points in the industry database could be positively assigned to an employment office area by being within a polygon and away from the boundary by a distance greater than epsilon . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In addition a survey of all LEAs within the region from which the writer 's research sample was taken revealed that almost 80 per cent had done the same . |