Example sentences of "under [num] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest official evidence shows that just under 70 per cent of adults with a disability — 4.2 million people — are over the age of 60 , compared with 25 per cent of the general population . |
| 2 | Ethnic Georgians , who constituted just under 70 per cent of the republic 's population , were assumed to have voted almost unanimously in favour . |
| 3 | BPB fell 17p to 217p after issuing a £64 million 15-year Euroconvertible yielding a touch under 7.5 per cent , and confirming a cut in the dividend from 11.25p to 7.5p for the current year . |
| 4 | Among the groups that have increased , the largest single cause of the increase was divorce , 60 per cent ; an increase in the numbers of single mothers accounted for a further 34 per cent , lone fathers just over 3 per cent and separated women just under 2 per cent . |
| 5 | The CEGB 's central assumption that coal prices will rise at under 2 per cent per annum does not , however , seem an unreasonable estimate . |
| 6 | Of this 30.4 per cent went to projects in Italy , 15.3 per cent to Spain , 14.9 per cent to the United Kingdom , 13.3 per cent to France , 6.8 per cent to Germany , 6.3 per cent to Portugal , 4.5 per cent to Denmark and under 2 per cent to each of the other five member states . |
| 7 | Recent opinion polls were reported to have given the party under 2 per cent of electoral support . |
| 8 | It shows that in England and Wales the lowest income groups paid 8.1 per cent of household income in rates , whereas the highest income group paid under 2 per cent . |
| 9 | Burmah has just under 30 per cent , which could be sold on to SHV , or another party . |
| 10 | By 1979 , just under 30 per cent of the land in the reformed sector had been restored to its former owners ( Castillo and Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 11 | In 70–80 per cent of all streets in the town , the amount of time spent by the car driver is under 30 per cent of that of the total time spent by all other people on the street . |
| 12 | Indeed , in this example the customer would be better off buying now with any credit arrangement charging under 30 per cent a year . |
| 13 | In the remainder of the hundred these two groups accounted for just under 30 per cent . |
| 14 | Just under 30 per cent of black trainees obtain work as opposed to just over 45 per cent of their white counterparts . |
| 15 | He took over 69 per cent of the vote , as opposed to just under 30 per cent for his rival , former senator Narciso Irureta , seen as belonging to the left wing of the party . |
| 16 | The Christian Democrats ( DC ) polled under 30 per cent for the first time since 1946 , but remained the largest party with 29.7 per cent and 206 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 17 | Hence the equation leaves unexplained just over 70 per cent of the total variance , or conversely it explains just under 30 per cent of the variance [ ] . |
| 18 | Also in Britain , ‘ alcohol-free ’ has under 0.05 per cent alcohol . |
| 19 | Between 1929 and 1936 unemployment averaged 16.9 per cent across Great Britain , but it ranged from 7.8 per cent in the South-east to 30.1 per cent for Wales , 22.7 per cent for the North-east and just under 22 per cent for Scotland and the North-west . |
| 20 | As can be seen from table 6.6 , the proportion of all families with dependent children which are headed by a single parent increased from just over 8 per cent in 1971 to just under 12 per cent in 1981 . |
| 21 | As a result , remand prisoners in 1999 accounted for 22 per cent of the total population in custody , compared with just under 12 per cent in 1976 . |
| 22 | The most basic of the " structural reforms " reportedly being demanded by the IMF was the reduction of India 's overall fiscal deficit from approximately 8.3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) to under 6.5 per cent . |
| 23 | The small number of observations and the biased nature of the sample did not produce average betas of unity and the effect on the overall portfolio risk was less dramatic , the lowest being 15 per cent for one of the 27-share portfolios and the highest being just under 26 per cent for one of the 2 share portfolios . |
| 24 | According to official figures there were 542,300 foreigners living in Austria , representing under 7 per cent of the population , a low figure by the standards of neighbouring countries . |
| 25 | Almost thirty per cent of the the population are employers , managers or white collar workers with just under six per cent unskilled labourers . |
| 26 | It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 per cent where they stood . |
| 27 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 28 | According to John Charcol , the mortgage broker , one or two schemes are still available , offering mortgages at a fixed rate of under 10 per cent . |
| 29 | Preceding the national survey , regional studies in 1981 and 1982 had suggested that under 10 per cent of German trees were affected . |
| 30 | By 1988 there were almost 300,000 , just under 10 per cent of the estimated population of Lebanon . |