Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1980 only about 5 per cent seemed to be favourably disposed towards a return of the 1948 refugees , and this may have declined to 3 per cent during the 1980s . |
| 2 | The Mexican Finance Ministry had announced on Jan. 10 , 1990 , that only about 10 per cent of the banks had chosen the new loans option , one of three choices under the four-year commercial bank debt refinancing agreement reached in July 1989 with 15 major banking creditors . |
| 3 | Does my hon. Friend agree that only about 60 per cent . |
| 4 | Hence the equation leaves unexplained just over 70 per cent of the total variance , or conversely it explains just under 30 per cent of the variance [ ] . |
| 5 | This difference increased with the age of the youngest child in the family , so that by the time the latter had reached 11 years old still only 44 per cent of the mothers of disabled children were in paid work compared with 87 per cent of control group mothers . |
| 6 | It might be of interest to the House to hear that already about 40 per cent . |
| 7 | In 1984 just over six per cent of all workers , or some 1 .5m people , regarded their jobs as temporary . |
| 8 | Relations between China and Singapore were especially sensitive given that well over 70 per cent of Singapore 's population were of Chinese descent . |
| 9 | In 1950 and 1951 well over 90 per cent of metal workers and miners voted in favour of strike action to secure a special codetermination law for their industries . |
| 10 | Whereas in 1974 well over 60 per cent of male sixteen year olds were in work , today that total is only 16 per cent . |
| 11 | Of those people in their sixties and seventies in the 1980s only about 5 per cent are in full-time employment past normal retirement age ; a somewhat larger number , around 10 per cent , let it be known that they work part-time ( Social Trends , 1979 , Table 11 ) . |
| 12 | In 1968 only around 15 per cent of the work force was unionized . |