Example sentences of "[prep] over 50 per [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be a cause for concern to those of us in the public sector that in the period 1979–90 the percentage of children receiving private education increased from 5 per cent to 7.8 per cent a growth of over 50 per cent . |
| 2 | The Metropolitan Police are expected to cost £1,082.391 million in 1989/90 — an increase of over 50 per cent in real terms since 1977/8 . |
| 3 | Since the average rate of interest paid on the deposits was about 9 per cent ( Mates 1986 ) , the banks would have needed to charge an average interest rate on their counterpart dinar loans of over 50 per cent in order to cover themselves . |
| 4 | The estate , with 2000 houses , has an unemployment rate of over 50 per cent . |
| 5 | By midsummer 1992 , according to a poll carried out for the newspaper The European , only in three of the twelve countries was there support for the Maastricht Treaty of over 50 per cent . |
| 6 | This represents an improvement of over 50 per cent on unit costs since 1989 . |
| 7 | The economy was undergoing its worst recession since 1945 and had been hit in particular by a fall of over 50 per cent in trade with the Soviet Union in the first three months of 1991 , and by a low dollar and over-valued Finnish markka , which seriously affected the forest industry . |
| 8 | No borough showed a drop of over 50 per cent in the numbers paying and only four over 45 per cent , whereas two counties showed one of over 60 per cent , four more of between 50 and 60 per cent and one more of over 45 per cent . |
| 9 | Zambia is one of the most urbanized countries in sub-Saharan Africa , with over 50 per cent of the population in towns . |
| 10 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 11 | Among the nationals the Sun clearly predominates in mentions of attacks with over 50 per cent again as many cases as even its rival the Star . |
| 12 | Republican Local soviets Supreme Soviet Armenia ( to be decided ) due on May 20 Azerbaijan ( to be decided ) ( to be decided ) Byelorussia March 4 March 4 Estonia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Georgia due on June 17 ( to be decided ) Kazakhstan Dec. 24 , 1989 March 25 Kirghizia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Latvia Dec. 10 , 1989 March 18 Lithuania ( to be decided ) Feb. 24 Moldavia Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Russian Federation March 4 March 4 Tadjikistan Dec. 24 , 1989 Feb. 25 Turkmenia Jan. 7 Jan. 7 Ukraine March 4 March 4 Uzbekistan Feb. 18 Feb. 18 *Second round run-off elections were held generally two weeks after the first round in constituencies where contests between more than two candidates had failed to produce a winner with over 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 13 | The National Assembly on March 19 adopted the government 's amendments to the July 1989 electoral law [ ibid. ] , apparently tabled in view of the perceived strength of the FIS , which introduced proportional representation to increase the share of seats won by smaller parties , rather than allowing parties with over 50 per cent of the vote to take all the seats in that locality . |
| 14 | A recent study by the North London Polytechnic shows that about 27 per cent of men have been victims of some unwanted sexual contact before they are 18 , compared to over 50 per cent for women . |
| 15 | Primary and extractive industries ( now accounting for over 50 per cent of gross social product ) are displacing manufacturing industries in relative importance , as investment is harnessed to the tasks of developing energy resources , ore and mineral deposits . |
| 16 | By 1981 328 companies accounted for over 50 per cent of manufacturing employment , and a mere 66 companies for 30 per cent . |
| 17 | Of this total , UK company securities accounted for over 50 per cent , and overseas securities , by far the greater part of which are also company shares , accounted for 13 per cent . |
| 18 | So-called " dollar bananas " from Costa Rica , Honduras and Panama and also from Colombia , Ecuador and Guatemala accounted for over 50 per cent of EC banana imports according to World Bank figures . |
| 19 | Up by over 50 per cent since 1979 . |
| 20 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |