Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [adv] [num] per [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine in Holland runs a psycho-geriatric hospital and he says that approximately twenty per cent of the patients sent to him suffering from seeming senility , i.e. confusion , some incontinence , and anxiety attacks , are in fact suffering from prolonged overdoses of tea . |
| 2 | Reddy says that about 40 per cent of that reduction came from improving efficiency . |
| 3 | The report says that around 90 per cent of the world 's native temperate forests have been destroyed ( not including the former Soviet Union , for which data were unreliable ) . |
| 4 | MAFF says that only 1 per cent of the 2,500 samples analysed in 1990 and 1991 exceeded Maximum Residue Levels , although the Pesticides Trust commented that this was a worryingly high level for staple foods . |
| 5 | A report by the European Regional Airlines Association says that only 2 per cent of transport emissions come from aircraft , compared to 94 per cent from motor vehicles . |
| 6 | Some 4,690 Wensleydale households took part in the survey which shows that nearly 10 per cent of local residents need immediate additional accommodation or will do so shortly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moreover , in the Pelileo-Patate region ( eastern Cordillera of Ecuador ) , Stadel states that nearly 60 per cent of the farms ( minifundia ) are less than 1 ha and some 94.3 per cent are less than 5 ha . |
| 9 | Using that indicator , it seems that about ten per cent of the people in each income group have heavy credit commitments . |
| 10 | In 1973 it seems that only 6 per cent of SBAT chairmen were lawyers . |
| 11 | Oddly , he finds that about 70 per cent of his clients end up buying very different homes than they originally intended . |
| 12 | A warning note to the churches is that the report finds that only 14 per cent of children are in contact with a church . |
| 13 | In the Devon case studies , it appears that only 9 per cent of all the applications were granted without conditions , and in the two national park study areas the figures were 6 and 3 per cent . |
| 14 | This means that nearly 30 per cent of the population of France would have to visit Eurodisney each year . |
| 15 | The housing deficit in Mexico is about 4 million units , which means that about 30 per cent of the population is in need of housing ( Hurtado 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Verbrugge ( 1989 ) considers that only 10 per cent of the gender difference in late-age mortality is due to biological or intrinsic factors and 90 per cent is a result of differences in social variables such as smoking behaviour ; Waldron ( 1976 ) suggests that 75 per cent of the difference is attributable to behavioural factors . |
| 17 | The Stock Exchange estimates that about 6 per cent of adults own shares , with a third of these deriving from the sale of British Telecom ( Guardian , 10 May 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Timaeus estimates that only 16 per cent of those reaching the age of 60 in the early 1990s will have no children at time of death . |
| 19 | Doyal ( 1979 ) reports that only 3 per cent of consultants work entirely in the private sector . |
| 20 | From her Mexican study , Eckstein reports that about 38 per cent of the men with factory and white-collar jobs said they obtained their work through a personal acquaintance ( Eckstein 1977 ) . |
| 21 | Bush made his statement after receiving a CIA report in mid-February , which had informed him that Israeli claims that under 1 per cent of Soviet immigrants were being settled in the " occupied territories " was only partly true , because a further 10 per cent were being placed in settlements in East Jerusalem . |
| 22 | Working on the basis that 8 per cent of the population is presumed to be gay or lesbian , their core document suggests that just 5 per cent of the adult audience in Glasgow represents some 34,000 potential ticket buyers . |
| 23 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 24 | Indirect evidence from the 1911 census suggests that about 20 per cent of married women born in 1831–45 ( and therefore marrying from the mid-1850s onwards ) and over 40 per cent of those born 1861–70 were controlling their fertility ( Matras 1965 ) . |
| 25 | Clarke suggests that only 10 per cent of the iodine-131 escaped . |
| 26 | The evidence of the 1949 Royal Commission on Population on the use of birth control techniques , recognised to be inadequate on the matter , suggests that only 40 per cent of women married between 1910 and 1919 used some form of birth control at some time in their marriage compared with 66 per cent of those married between 1935 and 1939 . |