Example sentences of "about 10 per [unc] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the scheme , successful claimants would pay about 10 per cent of their winnings to a central fund which would meet the costs of unsuccessful claims . |
| 2 | Brooks Marketing , which owns the Burke 's franchise , is offering about 10 per cent of its equity in return for £150,000 . |
| 3 | Levels of lending , in which property companies represented about 10 per cent of total loan exposure to UK residents , did not present a ‘ major ’ supervisory anxiety , he said . |
| 4 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
| 5 | About 10 per cent of solicitors — around 6,000 — might want to conduct cases in the higher courts , Mr David Ward , president of the Law Society , has estimated . |
| 6 | ‘ They were losing about 10 per cent of their profit by not claiming back the tax , and no Japanese businessman does that . ’ |
| 7 | About 10 per cent of his patients have joined the Denplan Care scheme . |
| 8 | The secularisation of Holy Week and Easter now seems complete except for a faithful remnant of practising Christians — about 10 per cent of the population on most calculations . |
| 9 | Having consolidated his base , he launched an aggressive drive that led to the take-over of Newcastle Breweries and several smaller Edinburgh companies to form Scottish & Newcastle , which by the time he retired as chairman in 1969 was supplying about 10 per cent of British beer sales . |
| 10 | The new company , which will be called Chiron , will have 1500 employees , although a reduction of about 10 per cent of the workforce is expected early in 1992 . |
| 11 | Duodenal ulcers are more common than gastric ulcers in the UK where about 10 per cent of the population have ulcers or ulcer scars . |
| 12 | As an index of this environmental richness , Figure 5 shows the distribution of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in these islands ( see appendix ) ; a land designation that is about 10 per cent of the total area . |
| 13 | Morainic drift with a typical hummocky landform occupies about 10 per cent of the Outer Hebrides . |
| 14 | Only about 10 per cent of respondents favoured a return . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 17 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 18 | One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police . |
| 19 | The bank 's liability is generally about 10 per cent of the contract price , but , however it can be higher . |
| 20 | In Britain and in the Netherlands it accounts For about 10 per cent of the total consumption of sugar , in Ireland for 8 per cent , in Germany and France for about 5 per cent . |
| 21 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 22 | The normal premium is about 10 per cent of the total sum insured . |
| 23 | This year we found that out of 1176 students ( about 10 per cent of the university population ) only 37 were lefthanded ( about 3.1 per cent ) . |
| 24 | The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned . |
| 25 | In the General Household Survey of 1981 , about 10 per cent of the registered unemployed declared that they were ‘ economically inactive ’ , mostly for reasons associated with their age , health or because of family or domestic responsibilities . |
| 26 | BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost . |
| 27 | What had changed was the distribution of employment so that although Japanese farms are very tiny , the threefold decline in agricultural employment to about 10 per cent of the labour force means that non-agricultural sectors now provide the bulk of small-firm employment . |
| 28 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |
| 29 | Overall it seems likely that about 10 per cent of the population aged 65 + experiences depressive illness of clinical significance ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 30 | Nearly 20 per cent of the bottom third and about 10 per cent of the top chose July on each occasion , possibly because it is both one of the two hottest and one of the two sunniest months . |