Example sentences of "[adv] about [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Only about 10 per cent of respondents favoured a return . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 6 | One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | reach the stage of proceedings being started , and only about 10 per cent . |
| 10 | Only about 10 per cent of the Chile 's estimated 400,000 temporeros belong to any kind of union . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | For example , one research study cited by Mays ( 1983 ) suggested that only about 5 per cent of Asian elders live alone ( compared with 38 per cent of white old people ) ( Bhalla and Blakemore , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | Only about 5 per cent of those generations never married — a very low proportion for Europe ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 21 | Overlap of turns occurs in only about 5 per cent of conversation or less , strongly suggesting that speakers somehow know exactly when and where to enter ( Ervin-Tripp 1979 ) . |
| 22 | However , with their emphasis on rehabilitation of stock and on area-wide environmental improvements , GIAs had a relatively limited impact , and only about 5 per cent of grants since 1969 have been issued within these areas . |
| 23 | Although their population was only about 5 per cent of the total of rural Wales , some districts fared relatively worse than others , particularly in Powys ( Brecknock , Montgomery and Radnor ) and parts of West Wales ( Preseli and south Pembrokeshire ) . |
| 24 | Of those people in their sixties and seventies in the 1980s only about 5 per cent are in full-time employment past normal retirement age ; a somewhat larger number , around 10 per cent , let it be known that they work part-time ( Social Trends , 1979 , Table 11 ) . |
| 25 | Between the wars , nationally , only about 5 per cent of all subsidized dwellings were in the form of flats ; it was 40 per cent in London and 20 per cent in Liverpool . |
| 26 | ( The Financial Times of June 21 noted that these countries had in any case serviced only about 5 per cent of these debts in 1989/90 . ) |
| 27 | The world 's gold-mining industry was stagnating , refining only about 45 per cent of metal from complex ores : the new process enabled 98 per cent extraction , and was hailed as the saviour of the industry . |
| 28 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 29 | It 's now , it 's still only about five per cent , but I think that that proportion is growing and I think this is something universities would welcome very much . |
| 30 | At first , registration of births was only about 95 per cent complete . |