Example sentences of "[conj] just [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 2 | Although only a small number of weapons had been eliminated , scientists had calculated that just 5 per cent of the weapons that existed were sufficient to destroy the world . |
| 3 | Working on the basis that 8 per cent of the population is presumed to be gay or lesbian , their core document suggests that just 5 per cent of the adult audience in Glasgow represents some 34,000 potential ticket buyers . |
| 4 | A Department of Employment survey in 1988 of individuals attending courses or receiving job-related training , found that just 4.5 per cent of economically active men aged 50–59 and 1.9 per cent of those aged 60–64 had received some form of course or training in the four weeks prior to the interview . |
| 5 | While the drift out of industrial employment was common to all developed countries after 1945 , in Britain in 1975 the ratio of non-industrial to industrial employment was 41 per cent , compared with 32.8 per cent in Germany , 27.9 per cent in the USA , 22.5 per cent in France , and just 4.5 per cent in Japan . |
| 6 | Similarly , four of the five in the ‘ in-between ’ group held a ballot , with 52 per cent support in Northumberland , 50 per cent in Derbyshire , 41 per cent in Lancashire , and just 8 per cent in Cumberland ; there was no ballot in Durham . |
| 7 | And just two per cent open at weekends — the most convenient time for teenagers and workers . |
| 8 | Similarly , in the survey of 174 problem drug users in Brighton ( 90 per cent of whom were opioid users ) , 57 per cent were aged 26 years or older , and just 17 per cent were aged between 15 and 20 years . |
| 9 | Taking three of the early stations — Heysham , Hartlepool and Dungeness — their average annual availability to produce power between 1987 and 1989 was respectively 43 per cent , 27 per cent and just 15 per cent . |
| 10 | More significantly , only a fifth believe lawyers should not involve themselves in the general running of other people 's businesses and just three per cent that they are currently too aggressive in selling their services . |
| 11 | The Directive gave the UK something of a ‘ soft landing ’ , with only a 20 per cent cut on 1980 emissions required by 1993 , and just 60 per cent by 2003 . |
| 12 | If just one per cent switch from Tory to Labour , Conal Gregory with the country 's slimmest Tory majority of just 147 in York will be looking for a new job . |
| 13 | A tidy 34 billion cigarettes are sold every year in Thailand to 64 per cent of Thai males ( but just six per cent of females ) over the age of 20 . |