Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps only about 30 per cent of jobs within UDG-supported schemes were new to the area , although of these , three-quarters were new to the national economy . |
| 2 | As a matter of interest , Mr Rees took a head count , asking how many members in the hall were aware of the impending changes ; apparently only about 30 per cent of the audience knew of the proposed amendments . |
| 3 | Now it is only just over 4 per cent — below the average for the European Community . |
| 4 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | If special programme participants are subtracted from the temporary labour force we find that , whilst it grew between 1983 and 1986 , it did so only very slightly — by only just over five per cent . |
| 6 | Whilst in manufacturing industry the proportion of the workforce which is temporary stands at only just over three per cent , in the service sector it stands at well over seven per cent . |
| 7 | People who work through and are paid by agencies numbered only some 50,000 in 1984 and made up only just over three per cent of the total temporary labour force . |
| 8 | Overall , only just over 30 per cent of clauses had a filled or unfilled pause in clause-initial position . |
| 9 | The use of a Court Scheme means that opposition minorities have to muster only just over 25 per cent of the voting rights ( or a simple majority in number of shareholders ) to frustrate the takeover . |
| 10 | The Executive Director , James Grant , added that " aid for primary health care , including family planning , primary education , and rural water supply and sanitation , totals only just over 3 per cent of the industrialized world 's aid " . |
| 11 | The referendum was monitored by 12,000 members of the security forces , 490 delegates from the Catholic Church , 50 international observers and 300 foreign journalists , and was considered the cleanest and most peaceful poll ever held in Panama , but was marked by a high abstention rate ( the turnout was only slightly over 40 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Those people who learned before the age of 20 years , the majority of whom had deaf parents ( some had deaf siblings ) , are able to translate effectively just under 60 per cent of the information on average . |
| 13 | It 's now , it 's still only about five per cent , but I think that that proportion is growing and I think this is something universities would welcome very much . |
| 14 | Most of the specialists are Dermato -venereologists , and usually only about 10 per cent of the patients they see are suffering from a sexually transmitted disease , the remainder having skin problems . |
| 15 | Total remission is seen in under half of the children but more often only 10–20 per cent completely stop bedwetting . |
| 16 | Moreover , the rate of interest offered on the Agrokomerc bills were ‘ attractive ’ ( presumably well over 50 per cent ) . |
| 17 | Now when the exporter exchanges the Deutschmarks for sterling the rate might well be £1=DM2.95 giving a rate of return of £33 898.31 only , £2465.33 less than expected , or alternatively just below 7 per cent less than expected . |
| 18 | The provision of statutory services to the elderly has risen since 1948 , but not sufficiently to keep pace with the increasing number of dependants and the decreasing pool of informal carers ( even now only 11 per cent of people aged 85 and over receive meals-on-wheels , 37 per cent a home help ; OPCS , 1985 ) . |
| 19 | Second , although the peer-group norm is characterized by speakers as Dyirbal rather than English , the extent of its Dyirbal admixture ( sometimes only around 50 per cent ) corresponds to the extent to which traditional Dyirbal features are controlled by the least fluent Dyirbal speaker in the group . |
| 20 | Yet only about 15 per cent will be sold fresh ; the rest will go to make cranberry sauce , juice and other products . |
| 21 | Unemployment for 1990/91 was officially just below 8 per cent , although labour representatives claimed in February 1991 that the true unemployment figure was between 12 and 15 per cent . |
| 22 | Currently only about two per cent of Wellcome 's shares are held by US investors compared with 26 per cent of Glaxo and 35 per cent of SmithKline Beecham shares , despite the fact that half of Wellcome 's pharmaceutical sales are in North America . |