Example sentences of "[adv] over [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using this combined treatment regime , the patients experienced considerable improvement in their condition in over 80 per cent of the cases , and most of this was achieved within two weeks . |
| 2 | Kiernan , Reid and Jones ( 1979 ) indicate its use in over 80 per cent of schools for children with severe learning disabilities . |
| 3 | Reflecting this gendered division of care , in over 80 per cent of households , women are ‘ mainly responsible for general domestic duties ’ , which include cleaning , washing and ironing , shopping and cooking ( Jowell et al . , |
| 4 | The spread , too , of remote controls — again , in over 40 per cent of households — enables people to ‘ zap ’ commercials or whole commercial breaks . |
| 5 | This is happening in over ten per cent of all the cases that are coming up before your agency or your government 's agency , whereby a working parent so-called absent according to you , is supporting not only his children , his ex-wife , or his e if it 's if it 's the husband supporting |
| 6 | This method of acupuncture is also of value in over 60 per cent of cases of multiple sclerosis . |
| 7 | If a man is suspected of having gonorrhoea , examination of the discharge from his urethra will demonstrate the organism in over 90 per cent of the cases when it is there . |
| 8 | Set up in 1991 , the service has received requests for traces from over 15,000 people and possible pension source has been located in over 90 per cent of cases . |
| 9 | Perhaps over 90 per cent . |
| 10 | Already over 60 per cent of the world 's children are immunised . |
| 11 | This meant that a " yes " vote was cast by just over 61 per cent of registered electors , and around 56 per cent of all Soviet citizens of voting age . |
| 12 | The accumulation rate for the ACCs peaked in 1970–1 at just over 5½ per cent — an increase of over 1 percentage point relative to the early sixties . |
| 13 | The average performance of all funds , both sterling and dollar-based , is just over 14 per cent . |
| 14 | While the 1981 Census put the proportion of all families that are one parent families at just over 14 per cent , the average in Inner London was 26.6 per cent . |
| 15 | On Dec. 16 , 1989 , the Gabonese National Assembly adopted a national budget expenditure of 400,000 million francs CFA for 1990 , just over 14 per cent up on 1989 . |
| 16 | Just over 18 per cent of the Tiger Index Fund will follow each of the DTI approved markets such as Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia and half this percentage will go into others . |
| 17 | Just under 30 per cent of black trainees obtain work as opposed to just over 45 per cent of their white counterparts . |
| 18 | In 1424–25 its share of these was just over 46 per cent of the national total , in 1474–75 ( though perhaps exaggerated by the absence of the Bristol and Newcastle returns ) nearly 72 per cent and in 1524–25 81.75 per cent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | THE number of bankruptcies in the first half of the year soared by 60 per cent , while company failures rose by just over 8 per cent . |
| 21 | If special programme participants are subtracted from the temporary labour force we find that , whilst it grew between 1983 and 1986 , it did so only very slightly — by only just over five per cent . |
| 22 | Between 1983 and 1986 , the only years for which comparable data is available , the total number of temporary workers other than participants in special programmes grew by just over five per cent . |
| 23 | On the six new long-term capital issues they made between 1948 and 1955 to finance expansion — each for £100–200 millions — they paid a rate which rose from a little over 3 per cent initially to just over 4½ per cent by 1955 . |
| 24 | February 's inflation rate showed a 2.3 per cent monthly increase ( the biggest monthly rise for four years ) , representing an annualized rate for early 1990 of just over 13 per cent , substantially above the budget target . |
| 25 | Prices have fallen by up to 40 per cent since their peak in 1988/89 and interest rates are down from 15 to just over nine per cent . |
| 26 | At £2,077 million it was just over 26 per cent up on April , and 52 per cent up on the corresponding month in 1992 . |
| 27 | Participants in the Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) make up the largest share of these , accounting for nearly nine per cent of all temporary workers , and participants in the Community Programme ( CP ) together with a small number in the Community Industry programme make up almost all the remainder , accounting for just over four per cent . |
| 28 | A consequence of the recession has been a reduction of just over six per cent in the 5,000 worldwide workforce in the past 12 months . |
| 29 | In 1984 just over six per cent of all workers , or some 1 .5m people , regarded their jobs as temporary . |
| 30 | On the basis of self-classification , just over six per cent of the labour force in Britain in 1984 could be described as having temporary jobs . |