Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps only about 30 per cent of jobs within UDG-supported schemes were new to the area , although of these , three-quarters were new to the national economy . |
| 2 | As a matter of interest , Mr Rees took a head count , asking how many members in the hall were aware of the impending changes ; apparently only about 30 per cent of the audience knew of the proposed amendments . |
| 3 | Overlap of turns occurs in only about 5 per cent of conversation or less , strongly suggesting that speakers somehow know exactly when and where to enter ( Ervin-Tripp 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Now it is only just over 4 per cent — below the average for the European Community . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Overall , only just over 30 per cent of clauses had a filled or unfilled pause in clause-initial position . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | The referendum was monitored by 12,000 members of the security forces , 490 delegates from the Catholic Church , 50 international observers and 300 foreign journalists , and was considered the cleanest and most peaceful poll ever held in Panama , but was marked by a high abstention rate ( the turnout was only slightly over 40 per cent ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 15 | And that 's not even necessarily 80 per cent of the total loss . |
| 16 | It 's now , it 's still only about five per cent , but I think that that proportion is growing and I think this is something universities would welcome very much . |
| 17 | Most of the specialists are Dermato -venereologists , and usually only about 10 per cent of the patients they see are suffering from a sexually transmitted disease , the remainder having skin problems . |
| 18 | Total remission is seen in under half of the children but more often only 10–20 per cent completely stop bedwetting . |
| 19 | The once-powerful communists have splintered into hundreds of pieces , the largest of which is the Democratic Party of the Left , now expected to pick up only about 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 20 | On the North-East circuit today , which stretches from Middlesbrough to Ashington , boys make up only about three per cent of the dancing community . |
| 21 | Over the last twenty years , women have made up just under 50 per cent of all convicted shoplifters . |
| 22 | ICI 's power stations put out only about 1.3 per cent of the UK 's sulphur total and 0.5 per cent of the nitrogen oxide total . |
| 23 | Moreover , the rate of interest offered on the Agrokomerc bills were ‘ attractive ’ ( presumably well over 50 per cent ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The provision of statutory services to the elderly has risen since 1948 , but not sufficiently to keep pace with the increasing number of dependants and the decreasing pool of informal carers ( even now only 11 per cent of people aged 85 and over receive meals-on-wheels , 37 per cent a home help ; OPCS , 1985 ) . |
| 26 | Second , although the peer-group norm is characterized by speakers as Dyirbal rather than English , the extent of its Dyirbal admixture ( sometimes only around 50 per cent ) corresponds to the extent to which traditional Dyirbal features are controlled by the least fluent Dyirbal speaker in the group . |
| 27 | Yet only about 15 per cent will be sold fresh ; the rest will go to make cranberry sauce , juice and other products . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Currently only about two per cent of Wellcome 's shares are held by US investors compared with 26 per cent of Glaxo and 35 per cent of SmithKline Beecham shares , despite the fact that half of Wellcome 's pharmaceutical sales are in North America . |