Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gap must be narrowed between the rich countries of the world and the poorer countries where 70 per cent of the world 's people live on only 30 per cent of its income . |
| 2 | Turn-outs for local elections in Hungary have dropped from 40 to 20 per cent , and in some recent votes down below 15 per cent . |
| 3 | Although coronary disease was , and still is , the number one killer of American men , in any particular year it claims perhaps only 1 per cent of the male population . |
| 4 | Third , only a small proportion of those leaving the cities moved to new towns , perhaps only 10 per cent . |
| 5 | Even in the university centres , perhaps only 50 per cent of cases are notified , while reporting from private practitioners is non-existent . |
| 6 | OK , give it ten years and perhaps only 20 per cent will be producing what 60 per cent or 70 per cent were twenty-five years ago . |
| 7 | Unemployment continued to fall and was constantly below one per cent in 1961–6 . |
| 8 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 9 | Keynes 's own policies have often been misrepresented : in the 1930s , for example , he was well aware of the structural problems of British industry , and did not believe that unemployment could be reduced much below 12 per cent . |
| 10 | Indoors , or in drier weather , the relative humidity decreases , although it seldom falls much below 30 per cent even in hot dry climates . |
| 11 | Employment has gone down only 11 per cent . |
| 12 | In the event , tourist arrivals in January-March 1991 were down only 3 per cent compared with the same period in 1990 . |
| 13 | In spite of the recession , reduced profits from property sales and a 50 per cent rise in interest charges to £3.5 million profit before exceptionals was down only 9 per cent to £22.1 million , of which £11.8 million came in the first half . |
| 14 | Forty per cent of the people live in only 6 per cent of the total area , and densities rise to 100 per square kilometre . |
| 15 | However , despite general agreement about the need for groupworkers to be supervised by university trained personnel , this occurs in only 30 per cent of services in Flanders ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 16 | While Palermo ( 1973 ) , for example , found that four-to five-year-olds responded appropriately to more nearly all the time , but to less only 39 per cent of the time , an earlier study by Griffiths , Shantz and Sigel ( 1967 ) reported that children of that age understood both more and less almost equally well ( 70 per cent and 65 per cent ) . |
| 17 | Buy-out/buy-in business now accounts for a quarter of investments made by venture capital funds , whereas the number of startups account for only approximately 13 per cent ( Table 7.11 ) . |
| 18 | At the turn of the century an amount equal to only approximately 2.5 per cent of the GDP was spent on social services ; by the outbreak of the Second World War the percentage had risen to 11–12 per cent , and since the war it has risen to around 40 per cent . |
| 19 | President Reagan 's claim that ‘ No other nation is in a position to deal with the key parties to the conflict on the basis of trust and reliability' jarred with assessments in early 1982 that no more than 0.5 per cent of Palestinians in the West Bank considered the United States was ‘ helpful ’ to the Palestinians in the search for a solution , and only approximately 2 per cent in the territories believed the United States was serious about a peaceful solution to the Middle East . |
| 20 | Although linking pensions to prices rather than incomes may not produce a great difference in one year , after twenty-five years , assuming incomes rise by 2 per cent per annum faster than prices , the price-linked pension will be worth only approximately 60 per cent of the earnings-linked pension . |
| 21 | However in East Anglia the South Downs group still supplied a large proportion ( this time somewhat under 50 per cent of the axeheads ) , whereas East Anglian sources , such as Grimes Graves , had apparently cornered only a small proportion of the market . |
| 22 | Sales , on a like-for-like basis , were down nearly 10 per cent , with operating losses of £5.2m . |
| 23 | In the first seven months of 1990 productivity was down nearly 10 per cent compared with the same period of 1989 ; 37,000 people were unemployed ; and retail prices had increased dramatically ( according to figures published on Aug. 18 the cost of living index had risen by 108 per cent between May and July alone ) . |
| 24 | Output in cars , engineering and clothing is down nearly 12 per cent , says a Labour survey . |
| 25 | A four-minute call during cheap rate times will cost just 99p , down nearly 25 per cent , says British Telecom . |
| 26 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 27 | This occurs in about five per cent of cases of gonorrhoea for either site . |
| 28 | In about 95 per cent of cases , there 's no problem . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |