Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using this combined treatment regime , the patients experienced considerable improvement in their condition in over 80 per cent of the cases , and most of this was achieved within two weeks . |
| 2 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 3 | In other words just over 12 per cent of the total variance is still accounted for by non-market factors . |
| 4 | The company , formerly part of ICI , saw the pre-tax total drop by 7 per cent to £68 million , on turnover up nearly 4 per cent at £1.01 billion . |
| 5 | 1988 ) , and a residential option follows 60 per cent of foster home breakdowns compared with 25 per cent fostering again only 11 per cent the other way ( Millham et al . , |
| 6 | Group pre-tax profits to 30 June increased from £7.11m to £9.22m on turnover ahead just 3 per cent to £181m . |
| 7 | By 1993 , we will be producing 28 per cent of the total ; France and Germany just over 10 per cent each . |
| 8 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 9 | This delivers , through the unmodified hardware configuration , motion video at between 12.5 and 15 frames per second over about 25 per cent of the screen . |
| 10 | If the rate of violence amongst families in the population is relatively low , and we have noted that the incidence of sexual abuse maybe around 10 per cent while the incidence of serious physical abuse may be 3–4 per cent ( Straus et al . , |
| 11 | During the same period only about 70 per cent of the pupils who complete fifth grade every year will be able to continue their schooling in the regular education system . |
| 12 | If a man is suspected of having gonorrhoea , examination of the discharge from his urethra will demonstrate the organism in over 90 per cent of the cases when it is there . |
| 13 | As recently as five years ago only 10 per cent . |
| 14 | Five years ago only five per cent of all diesels sold in Britain were turbocharged ; now it 's 30 per cent.The 19 DX is a fine example of a 1990s diesel — quick yet quiet ; economical but with all the trimmings of a GTi . |
| 15 | Ten years ago only 6 per cent . |
| 16 | The preponderance of clerical workers , Party officials and students in the Congress delegation of 1937 , though not necessarily representative of proportions within the Party , indicates the transformation from the days when over 60 per cent of the members and delegates had been unemployed . |
| 17 | NMFS caved in to pressure from the tuna industry , and claimed that it was possible to place observers aboard only 50 per cent of tuna seiners for the season beginning 1 January 1989 . |
| 18 | The CLASS system was developed utilising ECGD 's experience in the export credit market over many years and provides its policyholders with a very fast and effective credit limit service on over 70 per cent of all limit applications . |
| 19 | each ; immigration just under 1 per cent . |
| 20 | We had 15 per cent interest rates , inflation just under 11 per cent . |
| 21 | The highest ratio of car owners per head of population was in Gordon where only 16 per cent of households did not have a car . |
| 22 | However at middle and senior management levels only about 11 per cent are women ( about 1000 out of 8400 ) , although this figure is a considerable improvement on 1984 when it was just four per cent . |
| 23 | Kiernan , Reid and Jones ( 1979 ) indicate its use in over 80 per cent of schools for children with severe learning disabilities . |
| 24 | As a result , according to the 1985-based projections ( OPCS , 1988 ) , while population increase of 15 per cent or more are expected by the year 2001 in some counties ( e.g. Buckinghamshire , Wiltshire , Cornwall , Shropshire ) , Merseyside stands to lose over 9 per cent and Cleveland and Tyne and Wear both over 5 per cent of their 1985 numbers . |
| 25 | In Britain today only 9 per cent of those over sixty live with another relative apart from their own spouse , in contrast to 12 per cent in the United States , 14 per cent in France , and 29 per cent in Japan and China . |
| 26 | According to the 1984 LFS rather over 6 per cent of the labour force considered themselves to be working on a temporary basis . |
| 27 | The numbers show that in Africa and in Latin America , excluding Chile , only about 17 per cent of targets for privatisation had actually been sold and in Asia only about 30 per cent . |
| 28 | The small number of observations and the biased nature of the sample did not produce average betas of unity and the effect on the overall portfolio risk was less dramatic , the lowest being 15 per cent for one of the 27-share portfolios and the highest being just under 26 per cent for one of the 2 share portfolios . |
| 29 | However , although this still may be effective in the less-developed world where about 50 per cent of the world 's labour force are still engaged in agriculture ( Grigg , 1976 ) it can no longer be used in the developed world for , as the next section shows , primary employment in most western countries has fallen below 10 or even 5 per cent . |
| 30 | 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 . |