Example sentences of "nearly [num] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | higher than the corresponding period last year , and nearly 120 per cent . |
| 2 | In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works . |
| 3 | However , even in the hesitant phase , the planning of short clauses appears to have occurred during preceding utterances , since over 80 per cent of four-word clauses did not contain a pause in initial position , and nearly 75 per cent of three-word clauses did not contain any pauses at all . |
| 4 | Only two years earlier the Twelve had battled at epic length over increasing the EC budget for the years to 1992 from 0.7 per cent of each member state 's gross national product to nearly 1.2 per cent , with the ceiling fixed at over £30 billion . |
| 5 | Lothian is also a well defined employment centre with nearly 92 per cent of its working population employed within its boundary . |
| 6 | Lothian is also a well defined employment centre with nearly 92 per cent of its working population employed within its boundary . |
| 7 | Only 37 per cent agreed that employers handled applications efficiently and fairly against nearly 70 per cent who thought that universities and polytechnics did so . |
| 8 | Out of the 167 women interviewed , nearly 70 per cent did stereotyped female work and/or held appointments in agencies carrying out tasks considered of particular concern to women . |
| 9 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 10 | Moreover , while 5 per cent of Afro-Caribbean men and 13 per cent of Asian men are in professional and managerial occupations , 19 per cent of white males are in such jobs ; but it is important to note that the ‘ Asian ’ category conceals significant material differences , with 25 per cent of African Asians being in the professions and managerial employment , and nearly 70 per cent of Bangladeshi workers occupying semi-skilled or unskilled jobs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | Before World War II , Brazil introduced high rates of effective protection for local manufacturers against imports ( up to nearly 70 per cent during the 1960s ) and thus created a strong and enduring anti-export bias ( Balassa , 1985 : p. 27 ) . |
| 12 | Nearly 70 per cent of seasonal , temporary or casual workers are also part-timers compared to only a quarter of fixed contract workers . |
| 13 | Even in the United States there was a considerable change : in 1984 about 60 per cent of Americans thought of the USSR as an ‘ evil empire ’ , according to the Los Angeles Times , but by late 1987 nearly 70 per cent took a different view . |
| 14 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 15 | There is a very heavy concentration on securities of all types , amounting to nearly 70 per cent . |
| 16 | Tshisekedi , who in 1991 had headed a " crisis government " for a three-week period beginning Sept. 29 [ see pp. 38423 ; 38515-16 ] , received nearly 70 per cent of the votes cast by the 2,651 national conference delegates . |
| 17 | The parish register from 1 January 1813 to 31 December 1817 records the occupations of 74 men , of whom 51 ( that is nearly 70 per cent ) were framework knitters ; the rest comprised 12 labourers , 2 woolcombers , 2 blacksmiths , a framesmith , a farmer and grazier , a publican , a gardener , a tailor , a brick mason and a soldier . |
| 18 | This is reflected in the fact that at end-March 1991 , government bonds outstanding constituted nearly 70 per cent of the total national debt in market holdings . |
| 19 | Nearly 70 per cent of these stumps later resprout and grow once more . |
| 20 | The 1981 census showed that nearly 97 per cent of people of pensionable age were thus accommodated ; while the recent dramatic growth of private residential care may increase the proportion in institutional care , the fact remains that they will remain a minute fraction of the elderly population . |
| 21 | Customs sources claimed that the alleged ring laundered some £19 million in drug profits for Colombia 's Madellin Cartel , believed to be responsible for nearly eight per cent of the cocaine smuggled into the US . |
| 22 | This means that nearly 30 per cent of the population of France would have to visit Eurodisney each year . |
| 23 | Reporting between 1976 and 1979 it showed how the share of the before-tax distribution of wealth of the top ten per cent had fallen from nearly 30 per cent in 1959 to 26.6 per cent in 1974–5 . |
| 24 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 25 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 26 | One of the main factors underpinning the share price was an anticipated shortage of water shares , because of the decision to scale down overseas allocations to increase the public offer from 23.5 to nearly 30 per cent of the offer . |
| 27 | Cabra , in which Bates has a stake of nearly 30 per cent , may settle for less than the £22.8 million if it takes into account other shareholders in its subsidiary company SB Properties , which owns the football ground . |
| 28 | There are nearly 30 per cent more public payphones and now , at any one time , 96 per cent of them actually work ! |
| 29 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 30 | For instance , nearly 30 per cent of the men in Townsend 's sample in ‘ managerial ’ occupations regarded themselves as working class , and at the other end of the scale 20 per cent of Butler and Stokes ' ‘ unskilled manual ’ workers regarded themselves as middle class . |