Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] 40 [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 In about 40 per cent of these cases , there is some improvement in the situation of victims of human rights abuse .
2 Of the land we do have to set-aside , only about 40 per cent would receive compensation , compared to two thirds in France , and 93 per cent in Greece .
3 When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working .
4 Only about 40 per cent of the electorate vote in local elections ( the turnout in the 1985 English shire county elections , for example , was 41 per cent ) but such a figure can be highly misleading .
5 Only about 40 per cent of British boilers would meet the proposed standards .
6 In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level .
7 This is because only about 40 per cent of total costs are ‘ specific ’ to particular sectors ; the rest represents facilities , such as track , signalling and administration , that are shared by the different sectors .
8 The British Association of Removers , which represents 750 removal companies across the country , believes housemoving business is down about 40 per cent .
9 The British Association of Removers , which represents 750 removal companies across the country , believes housemoving business is down about 40 per cent .
10 Although safe and effective vaccines have been available for 10 years , only around 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Europe are vaccinated .
11 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 .
12 The spread , too , of remote controls — again , in over 40 per cent of households — enables people to ‘ zap ’ commercials or whole commercial breaks .
13 just under 40 per cent admitted that weigh gain was the worst problem created by their sugar cravings
14 It might be of interest to the House to hear that already about 40 per cent .
15 These form just over 40 per cent of the East Bank population .
16 Of the 1m females in the health service in 1970 , for example , just over 40 per cent were part-time workers .
17 In just over 40 per cent of cases the husband was , as traditional , the sole earner , and , in roughly equal numbers ( 5 per cent each ) were cases where neither spouse earned , and cases where the wife was the sole earner .
18 It is now down to just over 40 per cent .
19 The NDP failed to improve on its popular vote , winning just over 40 per cent , but benefited from the division of the rest of the electorate between Socred and the Liberals .
20 Wine imports over the same period were reduced by just over 40 per cent .
21 He pointed out in Committee that , according to the Audit Commission , the proportion in inner city areas is probably around 40 per cent .
22 As expenditure has risen so have taxes and the proportion of G N P taken up by taxes and social security payments is also around 40 per cent .
23 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 ) .
24 Altogether about 40 per cent of public spending was directly cash limited .
25 Monthly car payments declined by about 40 per cent , the OECD notes .
26 But the construction materials side saw operating profits plunge 36 per cent , especially in the UK , and both sales and profits in construction fell by about 40 per cent .
27 On the contrary , as Professor Northcote Parkinson noted at the time , the civil service expanded as never before , locally as well as nationally , and the prominent place of central-government expenditure ( consistently over 40 per cent as a proportion of gross national product in this period ) is an outstanding feature of the period 1951–64 .
28 During the decade 1831–41 , the number of those living in industrial towns increased by over 40 per cent , and the population of England was , for the first time , dominantly urban .
29 The firearms death rate among teenagers increased by over 40 per cent between 1984 and 1988 .
30 All of a sudden it becomes frighteningly clear why over 40 per cent of the New Hampshire electorate were keen to see Pat Buchanan in the White House .
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