Example sentences of "[prep] just [adv] [num] per cent " in BNC.

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1 For example , Britain received $3.2billion of the $12.8billion Marshall money — worth just over 7 per cent of all our imports of goods and services over the five years .
2 Participants in the Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) make up the largest share of these , accounting for nearly nine per cent of all temporary workers , and participants in the Community Programme ( CP ) together with a small number in the Community Industry programme make up almost all the remainder , accounting for just over four per cent .
3 McCAW 'S revised offer for just over 50 per cent of LIN Broadcasting is cleverly structured .
4 In an £8m programme AMI is doubling the resources in its psychiatric division , which accounted for just under 5 per cent of group sales last year .
5 In the remainder of the hundred these two groups accounted for just under 30 per cent .
6 February 's inflation rate showed a 2.3 per cent monthly increase ( the biggest monthly rise for four years ) , representing an annualized rate for early 1990 of just over 13 per cent , substantially above the budget target .
7 Of these , 191 secondary teachers , 54 middle and 134 primary teachers responded , in many cases only after several reminders ; a response rate of just over 52 per cent , a rate very similar to that in the earlier survey in Solihull ( op. cit . ) .
8 The Wellington trainer , who has a strike rate of just over 37 per cent at the Lancashire course , landed a double there yesterday with all-the-way winners Tri Folene and Star 's Delight , and it would come as no surprise if he doubled that score today .
9 A consequence of the recession has been a reduction of just over six per cent in the 5,000 worldwide workforce in the past 12 months .
10 Over 9,700 candidates competed in the elections and a turnout of just over 60 per cent was officially recorded .
11 There was a relatively low turnout of just over 60 per cent .
12 The test yielded a mean score of just over 50 per cent for all pupils participating .
13 This would constitute an improvement of just over 50 per cent on the original return on the investment in XYZ Ltd .
14 This reduces the effect of the synonyms to a figure that could have been achieved by choosing an initial packing density of just over 33 per cent for the file — but this file is 90 per cent packed .
15 However , for the Gosville Company the general picture was of increase from 1939 to 1949 , then a period of stability , followed by decline in service frequency of just over 15 per cent during the 1970s .
16 To take Bury South , No 32 on Labour 's list of target seats , it needs a swing of just over 2.5 per cent .
17 That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent .
18 Gross national product ( GNP ) grew by an average of just under 5 per cent in 1989 and 1990 , while the annual rate of inflation fell to below 3 per cent by the end of 1990 .
19 The overall turnout was around 60 per cent compared with 76 per cent in 1986 , and an average in past elections of just under 80 per cent .
20 By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation .
21 In the late fourteenth century , between 1371 and 1401 when rural rents were declining , the number of tenements owned by the vicars-choral of the Minster increased from 183 to 238 , and the average rent rose from 6.7 to 7.1s. , an increase of just under 6 per cent .
22 Haussmann confirmed the buoyant state of the West German economy , with around 413,000 more in employment in 1989 than in 1988 and a moderate rate of inflation of just under 3 per cent per annum .
23 Shop stewards have recommended accepting the offer of just under 9 per cent — worth £10 a week to most bakers — two extra days ' holiday by April 1991 to make five weeks a year , and other benefits , including better sick pay .
24 However , the biennial consideration of High Court Interlocutory fees produced an uprating of just under ten per cent over two years .
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26 Midland has currently made provisions against just over 50 per cent of its South American debt exposure , in line with Bank of England guidelines .
27 He said the choice lay between an election system like PR which allowed an extremist party one MP for six per cent of the vote , or one which allowed an extremist party to take full power with just over 30 per cent .
28 The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates .
29 Presidential and legislative elections were held in November 1989 , when Callejas was elected with just over 50 per cent of the vote , and the PN won 71 of the 128 seats in the National Assembly [ see pp. 37038-39 ; 37275 ] .
30 Almost thirty per cent of the the population are employers , managers or white collar workers with just under six per cent unskilled labourers .
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