Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dentine differs from enamel in that the inorganic part constitutes only about 70 per cent by volume . |
| 2 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 3 | The government had begun to introduce from March 20 monthly compensation payments on top of wages , pensions , student grants and child benefit , albeit conceding that these would cover only around 85 per cent of the cost of the price rises . |
| 4 | While their sales of SelecTronics ' product was entirely mail order two years ago , it now represents only about 30 per cent of the total . |
| 5 | There are about 2,600 housing associations in England and Wales with a total stock of over 600,000 dwellings , and although this represents only about 3 per cent of all dwellings , the associations ' share of the total stock will increase substantially as the full impact of the 1988 Act begins to be felt . |
| 6 | Direct taxation — including forced loans and benevolences — produced only about 35 per cent . |
| 7 | He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 . |
| 8 | The crust , therefore , is an extremely thin surface layer representing only about 0.5 per cent of the Earth 's radius . |
| 9 | In particular , the air now contains only about 0.05 per cent of carbon dioxide : a trace indeed . |
| 10 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 11 | The official figure for voter turnout was over 1,600,000 people , representing just over 90 per cent of those registered to vote . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Burmah has just under 30 per cent , which could be sold on to SHV , or another party . |
| 14 | It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 per cent where they stood . |
| 15 | From 1955 to 1969 inflation averaged just under 2.8 per cent per annum . |
| 16 | In the domestic market , which represents just over three per cent of coal output , marketing is handled by Central Marketing Services , created when the Solid Fuel Advisory Service was phased out in December 1989 . |
| 17 | Tesco make just under seven per cent . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 19 | The Liberal Democrats were averaging just under 19 per cent — a fall of about four per cent on the level of the Liberal-SDP Alliance in 1987 . |
| 20 | Another marked feature of the service industries is the large amount of female labour they employ : among the highest levels were professional and scientific services where it was 70 per cent by 1970 and in both catering and retailing just over 60 per cent . |
| 21 | Its importance sharply decreased for those in their early 20s , to stand at little above the average and fell gradually as age increased , to reach just over eight per cent for over-55 year olds . |
| 22 | These industries export well over 50 per cent of the output and any exogenous change in foreign exchange rates can have a dramatic effect on costs , relative prices and therefore sales . |
| 23 | Exports remained weak as a whole , however , comprising only about 6 per cent of production . |
| 24 | Where many import requests were combined in one project , CACEX negotiated a ‘ national content ’ proportion for the project as a whole , leaving the enterprise to decide which imports were vital and which replaceable , CACEX licences have been much more effective in controlling imports than the high tariffs , which in practice affected only about 6 per cent by value of total imports . |
| 25 | Currently , the with-profits fund is invested only about 50 per cent in equities , compared with 65 or 70 per cent of the stronger life offices . |
| 26 | The world 's gold-mining industry was stagnating , refining only about 45 per cent of metal from complex ores : the new process enabled 98 per cent extraction , and was hailed as the saviour of the industry . |
| 27 | Originally F&C specialised in Government Bonds which returned only about 3 per cent . |
| 28 | Back to our examples : it would be ‘ an act of vandalism ’ to weaken the top 20 arts clients , from Covent Garden down , who snaffle just over 50 per cent of all Arts Council and regional cash , while London and the south-east swallow 57 per cent of all funds . |
| 29 | Ethnic Georgians , who constituted just under 70 per cent of the republic 's population , were assumed to have voted almost unanimously in favour . |
| 30 | Officials of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) observed that central government had contributed just over 50 per cent to the cost of the Games , while the flying of the Catalan flag and the use of Catalan as one of the four official languages of the Games had been agreed at the outset . |