Example sentences of "[adv] about [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | This occurs in about five per cent of cases of gonorrhoea for either site . |
| 2 | In about 95 per cent of cases , there 's no problem . |
| 3 | In about thirty per cent of the cases ground tuition is free , while for others it ranges from about £2 per hour up to £18.40 per hour ex-VAT . |
| 4 | In a previous double-blind trial , it had been found to be of value in about 70 per cent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and about 40 per cent of those with osteoarthritis . |
| 5 | A recent examination of over a hundred major and minor innovations in scientific instruments revealed that users dominated the innovation process in about 80 per cent of the cases . |
| 6 | Some form of physical violence was directed against the victim in about 80 per cent . |
| 7 | Very often these mispronunciations were corrected when the subject repeated the speech , and in about 50 per cent of cases the correct pronunciation was restored with no disruption of the fluency of shadowing . |
| 8 | Close ties with Performance Fabrics remain and apart from sharing the same site Tygavac buys in about 20 per cent of its products from the Courtaulds Aerospace company . |
| 9 | In about 40 per cent of these cases , there is some improvement in the situation of victims of human rights abuse . |
| 10 | The DSS estimate that the average assessment will be about £40 per week ( compared with £25 now ) and that in about 25 per cent of cases the bill will be payable in full . |
| 11 | Almost 40 per cent of such problems were attributed in whole or part to the pupils ' characteristics whilst in about 65 per cent of cases the home was thought to be wholly or partly to blame . |
| 12 | Neutering reduces the incidence of straying in about 90 per cent of male dogs , and lowers the risk of soiling by decreasing the dog 's sex drive . |
| 13 | Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future , even though he expected a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year — a rise of perhaps about 7 per cent to 1.7 million . |
| 14 | Here , similar classes were emerging but only about 10 per cent were able to employ wage labour regularly and only 20 per cent provided it regularly . |
| 15 | Only about 10 per cent of respondents favoured a return . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 18 | One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police . |
| 19 | And manager Joe Kinnear last night reported that John Fashanu was in agony after pulling his hamstring again after coming on as a substitute even though he was ‘ only about 10 per cent fit . ’ |
| 20 | Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position . |
| 21 | reach the stage of proceedings being started , and only about 10 per cent . |
| 22 | Only about 10 per cent of the Chile 's estimated 400,000 temporeros belong to any kind of union . |
| 23 | The Mexican Finance Ministry had announced on Jan. 10 , 1990 , that only about 10 per cent of the banks had chosen the new loans option , one of three choices under the four-year commercial bank debt refinancing agreement reached in July 1989 with 15 major banking creditors . |
| 24 | Men might also leave the land , members of Wigston families migrated to Leicester into commerce , and it reflects the mobility of the population that only about 10 per cent of the families there survived in the male line from 1377 to the time of Henry VIII . |
| 25 | Only about 10 per cent of expenditure went on services that were clearly pro poor and about 20 per cent were biased toward those services ( e.g. education , roads , leisure services ) that favoured the better off . |
| 26 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 27 | This senseless slaughter takes place merely to try to catch a few extra tuna , and in fact the tuna caught through this method amounts to only about 5 per cent of the world 's total catch . |
| 28 | By 1980 only about 5 per cent seemed to be favourably disposed towards a return of the 1948 refugees , and this may have declined to 3 per cent during the 1980s . |
| 29 | Politicians , local and national , have been able to claim great progress on the housing front , referring to the increasing numbers of sheltered housing units , yet conveniently ignoring that only about 5 per cent live in this kind of accommodation . |
| 30 | Predation varies in its effects : when populations are at their peak , only about 5 per cent of small mammals are predated , while this can increase up to 50–88 per cent of the standing crop at low population levels ( Pearson , 1964 ; Southern & Lowe , 1982 ) . |