Example sentences of "[adv] around 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , despite these encouraging figures , marketing studies carried out in the USA show that most home-gym equipment goes unused and only around 10 per cent of American adults engage in brisk , regular exercise . |
| 2 | Only around 10 per cent claimed to recall the contents well and even fewer had made use of the response sheets provided on it . |
| 3 | The three major paper producers in northern Europe — Finland , Sweden and Norway — recycle only around 10 per cent of their paper . |
| 4 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 5 | These conclusions were partially based on an attempt to identify users and their needs empirically ( Jones et al. , 1985 ) , though that exercise was somewhat disappointing because of the very low response rate ( reportedly around 10 per cent ) . |
| 6 | 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 . , |