Example sentences of "[verb] over 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ershad 's Jatiya Party won over 10 per cent of the seats , including that won by Ershad himself ( who was under arrest and facing serious corruption charges ) in his home district of Rangpur . |
| 2 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 3 | But the study showed over 10 per cent of GPs were prescribing oestrogen only . |
| 4 | In a confidential report he reviewed the properties of steels containing upward of 5 per cent chromium , and concluded that steels containing over 10 per cent chromium should be investigated . |
| 5 | Martin ( 1988 ) aggregates employment in a wider group of growth sectors and calculates that the South East region 's share of employment is over 41 per cent , with East Anglia and the South West together claiming over 10 per cent more . |
| 6 | At the more local scale of the metropolitan districts , the changes expected for Knowsley and Liverpool are as big as -18.2 and -16.1 per cent respectively , while Gateshead and Salford are also projected to lose over 10 per cent of their population in this 16-year period . |
| 7 | What impact the British offer would have on the brain drain , which is expected to push over 10 per cent of the population out of the colony before China 's 1997 takeover , was not clear . |