Example sentences of "[adv] around [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success rates are uniform , all around five per cent . |
| 2 | Voter turnout was only around 42 per cent , however . |
| 3 | However , despite these encouraging figures , marketing studies carried out in the USA show that most home-gym equipment goes unused and only around 10 per cent of American adults engage in brisk , regular exercise . |
| 4 | Only around 10 per cent claimed to recall the contents well and even fewer had made use of the response sheets provided on it . |
| 5 | The three major paper producers in northern Europe — Finland , Sweden and Norway — recycle only around 10 per cent of their paper . |
| 6 | The government had begun to introduce from March 20 monthly compensation payments on top of wages , pensions , student grants and child benefit , albeit conceding that these would cover only around 85 per cent of the cost of the price rises . |
| 7 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
| 8 | Since 1945 the distribution of university entrants by social class has been relatively stable with around 60 per cent coming from upper non-manual backgrounds ( social classes I and II ) ( Robbins , 1963 ; UCCA , 1986 ) , a group which until recently have comprised only around 18 per cent of the births . |
| 9 | Although safe and effective vaccines have been available for 10 years , only around 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Europe are vaccinated . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As a percentage of joint gross national product ( GNP ) this represented an increase from the existing ceiling of 1.2 per cent ( although 1992 expenditure was calculated to come to only around 1.14 per cent ) to 1.27 per cent by 1999 . |
| 12 | Second , although the peer-group norm is characterized by speakers as Dyirbal rather than English , the extent of its Dyirbal admixture ( sometimes only around 50 per cent ) corresponds to the extent to which traditional Dyirbal features are controlled by the least fluent Dyirbal speaker in the group . |
| 13 | With a burden of about 150 kilograms — equal to more than a quarter of its body weight — a camel burns only around 15 per cent more fuel than it burns unladen . |
| 14 | In 1968 only around 15 per cent of the work force was unionized . |
| 15 | Only around 30 per cent of those who have been vaccinated go on to contract a mild dose of flu , and even then the risk of secondary infections is considerably reduced . |
| 16 | Property prices are down around 30-35 per cent from the high of 1988 , and for waterside locations have plummeted by 40 per cent , says Dai Jenkins of Gribble , Booth & Taylor , who have branches in Devon , Cornwall , Somerset and Dorset . |
| 17 | Between 1932 and 1939 when the bank rate was 2 per cent , a building society 's advance was normally around 80 per cent of the value of the house spread over fifteen to twenty years at 4 to 6 per cent interest . |
| 18 | But , with rental companies such as Britain 's Thorn-EMI backing the Japanese VHS system , the market share for Europe 's only manufacturer of recorders is still around 5 per cent in Britain and 20 per cent in Western Europe as a whole . |
| 19 | However , as a broad generalisation , premiums are usually around 0.5 per cent and upwards of the annual sales you want covered . |
| 20 | This is usually around 50 per cent , which can be a serious disadvantage . |
| 21 | This is the major drawback of the postal method , where response rates , usually around 30–40 per cent , are lower than in face-to-face research , which can hope to achieve a 70 or even 80 per cent response . |
| 22 | Their work suggests , too , that most of the species on Earth — probably around 99 per cent ! — live in the rain forests . |
| 23 | He pointed out in Committee that , according to the Audit Commission , the proportion in inner city areas is probably around 40 per cent . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 26 | Under house purchase schemes employees can buy property at concessionary rates of interest , often around 5 per cent . |
| 27 | Thus cheese is now around 18 per cent more expensive than it was before Black Monday . |
| 28 | However , they are split on how high to raise their rates , now around 13.5 per cent . |
| 29 | These conclusions were partially based on an attempt to identify users and their needs empirically ( Jones et al. , 1985 ) , though that exercise was somewhat disappointing because of the very low response rate ( reportedly around 10 per cent ) . |
| 30 | If the rate of violence amongst families in the population is relatively low , and we have noted that the incidence of sexual abuse maybe around 10 per cent while the incidence of serious physical abuse may be 3–4 per cent ( Straus et al . , |