Example sentences of "with [adv] [adv] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they are credited with only around 40 per cent of the vote — exactly the same as their score in the 1981 general election in which the Socialists were swept to power . |
| 2 | Again cans predominate , but with only about 55 per cent of the market , along with mixers such as or . |
| 3 | These were particularly marked during training , with only about 65 per cent of an initial intake completing their course and registering ( Hutt 1989 ) . |
| 4 | This compares with only about 25 per cent for US retail and 40 per cent for US mail order . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | Almost thirty per cent of the the population are employers , managers or white collar workers with just under six per cent unskilled labourers . |
| 9 | Half of the theses were cited in the Science Citation Index , with just under thirty per cent of these being self-citations . |
| 10 | Under the system of proportional representation used in the 1986 election , his party managed to win 35 parliamentary seats with just under 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Simply expressed , a relatively poorly supported centre party with well under 20 per cent of the vote , but with some eighty or so seats , would invariably be in government ; would be in a position to determine whether Conservative or Labour were drawn into government with it ; and would , therefore , be able to exert an influence over the direction of public policy out of all proportion to their votes and support in the country at large . |
| 13 | As we saw , Murdoch was able to control LWT in 1971 with initially just 7.5 per cent of the voting shares . |