Example sentences of "[adv] 30 per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | By early 1981 our support had fallen to below 30 per cent and as the months went by it plummeted even further to reach 23 per cent at the end of the year . |
| 2 | The Christian Democrats — 34.3 per cent last time — are expecting a small loss , but a drop to below 30 per cent would be seen as disaster . |
| 3 | Their share of the national vote dropped more than five per cent to below 30 per cent for the first time . |
| 4 | Although government figures show adult illiteracy rates continuing to fall to below 30 per cent , the real rates are thought to be far higher than this . |
| 5 | Indoors , or in drier weather , the relative humidity decreases , although it seldom falls much below 30 per cent even in hot dry climates . |
| 6 | Remarkably , the UK proportion of employment in industry fell below 30 per cent by 1987 . |
| 7 | ROI as a percentage is in the low teens for market share below 30 per cent and up to the mid to high thirties for market shares above 80 per cent . |
| 8 | These are the three main areas in which the relationship between manufacturer and final consumer is affected by vertical restraints , covering perhaps 30 per cent of UK retail trade by value . |
| 9 | EMPLOYERS gain almost two hours a week on average from early-bird employees , and only 30 per cent of employees contribute no extra time at all , according to a report by the mobile communications group Phonepoint . |
| 10 | Clearly the legacy of the war was a huge current account deficit , with exports in 1945 at only 30 per cent of their prewar level ( imports 60 per cent ) , and shipping earnings substantially diminished . |
| 11 | ‘ Only 30 per cent of Vung Tau is perfect ; the rest is damaged , from a small chip to half the piece missing . |
| 12 | According to Rob Strachan , who has recently completed the field work for a Water Vole Survey of Britain , funded by the Vincent Wildlife Trust , only 30 per cent of the sites where water voles were found before 1939 still have them today . |
| 13 | The gap must be narrowed between the rich countries of the world and the poorer countries where 70 per cent of the world 's people live on only 30 per cent of its income . |
| 14 | However , despite general agreement about the need for groupworkers to be supervised by university trained personnel , this occurs in only 30 per cent of services in Flanders ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | The first was that the Maronite community — which at best constituted only 30 per cent of the Lebanese — was almost certainly outnumbered by the Sunnis or the Shias . |
| 16 | Although they contained only 30 per cent of the whole secondary-school population , they marshalled 10 per cent of all sixth formers — pupils , that is , voluntarily staying on to the age of eighteen . |
| 17 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 18 | In a society such as the United Kingdom where over 50 per cent of workers are in the service sector compared with only 30 per cent in manufacturing , new technology in the office may have more consequences than robots in the factory for job loss . |
| 19 | As a minority shareholding interest in an unquoted company , his shares would have attracted only 30 per cent relief , leaving £21,000 ( £30,000 — £9,000 ) for inclusion in his estate for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 20 | The study found that 72 per cent of employers in the top size band saw qualifications as useful as against only 30 per cent in the smallest , where 49 per cent saw them as not useful compared with only 12 per cent in the largest ( see ibid. , Tables 46 , 48 and 50 ) . |
| 21 | Only 30 per cent considered having an abortion . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that at least one in 10 couples — some researchers suggest one in six — have fertility problems , the new technology results in the birth of a child in only 30 per cent of cases at best ( often the rate is lower ) . |
| 23 | Though Brazil 's massive debt of about $115 billion is only 30 per cent of GNP , its debt service ratio is over 50 per cent . |
| 24 | By that time the native peoples constituted a minority of only 30 per cent of the total population of Siberia , and they remained at that level until the end of the eighteenth century , although their own numbers increased from 288,000 in 1719 to 732,000 in 1795 . |
| 25 | In the nineteenth century about 70 per cent of all Siberia 's ‘ Russians ’ lived in the three most westerly provinces ( Tobolsk , Tomsk and Yeniseisk ) , while only 30 per cent lived in the eastern half of Siberia . |
| 26 | Of the 50,000 red deer shot annually in Scotland , only 30 per cent are shot for sport and about half of these by paying clients . |
| 27 | Businesses in the decline phase of their life-cycle achieved only 30 per cent of potential performance . |
| 28 | Of those women who were single and in their late twenties in 1921 , 50 per cent remained unmarried a decade later : this figure is particularly striking when compared with that for men , of whom only 30 per cent failed to marry . |
| 29 | Hence also the introduction in 1789 of a very ambitious though shortlived scheme of tax reform which provided that in future the peasant should pay to State and lord combined only 30 per cent of his gross income . |
| 30 | Only 30 per cent of the drugs could be used by health workers in the disaster area . |