Example sentences of "[adv] just [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is only just over 4 per cent — below the average for the European Community . |
| 2 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | If special programme participants are subtracted from the temporary labour force we find that , whilst it grew between 1983 and 1986 , it did so only very slightly — by only just over five per cent . |
| 4 | Whilst in manufacturing industry the proportion of the workforce which is temporary stands at only just over three per cent , in the service sector it stands at well over seven per cent . |
| 5 | People who work through and are paid by agencies numbered only some 50,000 in 1984 and made up only just over three per cent of the total temporary labour force . |
| 6 | Overall , only just over 30 per cent of clauses had a filled or unfilled pause in clause-initial position . |
| 7 | The use of a Court Scheme means that opposition minorities have to muster only just over 25 per cent of the voting rights ( or a simple majority in number of shareholders ) to frustrate the takeover . |
| 8 | The Executive Director , James Grant , added that " aid for primary health care , including family planning , primary education , and rural water supply and sanitation , totals only just over 3 per cent of the industrialized world 's aid " . |
| 9 | Those people who learned before the age of 20 years , the majority of whom had deaf parents ( some had deaf siblings ) , are able to translate effectively just under 60 per cent of the information on average . |
| 10 | Over the last twenty years , women have made up just under 50 per cent of all convicted shoplifters . |
| 11 | Now when the exporter exchanges the Deutschmarks for sterling the rate might well be £1=DM2.95 giving a rate of return of £33 898.31 only , £2465.33 less than expected , or alternatively just below 7 per cent less than expected . |
| 12 | Unemployment for 1990/91 was officially just below 8 per cent , although labour representatives claimed in February 1991 that the true unemployment figure was between 12 and 15 per cent . |