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| 1 | The BLDC political subcommittee ( composed of 10 Chinese and six Hong Kong representatives ) proposed that 30 per cent of the Hong Kong Legislative Council ( Legco ) would be directly elected in 1997 , rising to 40 per cent in 1999 and 50 per cent in 2003 [ for figures proposed under the second draft of the Basic Law published in February 1989 see p. 36763 ] . |
| 2 | Of those 271 firms which do provide assistance , Merrill Lynch found that 83 per cent pay for legal expenses and land charges/stamp duty . |
| 3 | The study found that 72 per cent of employers in the top size band saw qualifications as useful as against only 30 per cent in the smallest , where 49 per cent saw them as not useful compared with only 12 per cent in the largest ( see ibid. , Tables 46 , 48 and 50 ) . |
| 4 | The Brighton study also investigated the occupational status of 154 problem drug users ( 90 per cent opioid users ) , and found that 72 per cent of those available for work were unemployed , compared to 16 per cent in the total 17–35-year-old population . |
| 5 | It looked at 1,800 projects in 113 countries , for which the Bank had lent US$138,000 million , and found that 37.5 per cent of the projects were regarded as failures , compared to 15 per cent in 1981 and 30 per cent in 1989 . |
| 6 | A study at the Science policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex found that 37 per cent of innovations in mechanical engineering between 1969 and 1980 were made in firms with fewer than 1000 employees . |
| 7 | Allen ( 1983 ) found that 85 per cent of carers were women , predominantly daughters , followed by daughters-in-law , other female friends and neighbours . |
| 8 | This gloomy picture was confirmed by an Audit Commission report , published in 1986 , which found that 85 per cent of council houses needed repairs . |
| 9 | This found that 85 per cent of the babies in the trial , who were aged up to eight months , were soothed by the crackle of Egnell Ameda 's Babyshh , which sounds like an out-of-tune radio ( see Lulla-buys , our review of soothers in the January issue ) . |
| 10 | In the South Korean capital , Seoul , TRAFFIC found that 85 per cent of clinics were now selling rhino horn , compared to 51 per cent in 1987 . |
| 11 | In a survey carried out at the end of October of a sample of 100 of The Times top 1000 companies , it found that 61 per cent of companies were experiencing worse bad debt problems . |
| 12 | The study found that 56 per cent of the jobs taken by the young people in fact had no formal educational requirements attached to them . |
| 13 | A new study by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board ( PMPRB ) found that 56 per cent of the introductory prices of 124 new drugs in Canada were greater than the corresponding median international prices . |
| 14 | A sample of the fishermen operating the 816 boats in the area found that 93 per cent used the type of gill-net which entangles vaquitas . |
| 15 | She found that 93 per cent of the first-born children showed an increase in naughtiness after the arrival of a new baby . |
| 16 | Over the last 20 years , various referenda have rejected constitutional change , but an opinion poll last March found that 57 per cent of Australians wanted a republic . |
| 17 | The Government brought in the new law after inspectors found that 97 per cent of ‘ pints ’ contained less . |
| 18 | In rural Lincolnshire , Clark and Unwin ( 1981 ) found that 77 per cent of respondents in a survey had regular access to private transport . |
| 19 | " Coventry 's tenants are the worst in the country , " blurted out a Coventry councillor , But when some of his colleagues on the council , together with fellow Labour Party activists , surveyed the extent to which repairs correctly reported had been made good by the council on several large estates , they found that 70 per cent had not been carried out . |
| 20 | Single parents off the dole queue have the same thwarted desire for waged work as their married sisters — a Woman 's Realm survey in the seventies found that 70 per cent of mothers full time at home would like a job , but had none because of the lack of childcare facilities . |
| 21 | An earlier GHS survey found that 10 per cent of the care provided for children in one parent families was provided by another member of their households and a further 10 per cent by a relative outside the household . |
| 22 | The 1982 BCS found that 10 per cent of assault victims were women who has been attacked by present or previous husbands or boyfriends ( Hough and Mayhew 1983 ) . |
| 23 | The recent study found that 10 per cent of the two year old females were breeding . |
| 24 | A Women 's Industrial Council investigation of 10,000 girls during the 1890s found that 5 per cent spent an hour at midday and between two and four hours after school , as well as Saturdays , thus employed . |
| 25 | In particular , the New York Times/CBS poll of Oct. 22 found that 79 per cent believed foreign policy less important than home issues , that only 37 per cent approved Bush 's handling of the economy , and that 56 per cent believed that the recession was getting worse . |
| 26 | Merrill Lynch 's 1985 relocation study found that 44 per cent of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed provided bridging finance directly . |
| 27 | By 1963 Larner claimed that the figure had risen to 84 per cent , and in his major study conducted in the mid-1970's , Herman found that 82.5 per cent of the top 200 non-financial corporations were controlled by management . |
| 28 | A ballot organised by parents found that 94.3 per cent of those who voted were in favour of retaining the ILEA ; and 51.6 per cent of those entitled to vote rejected abolition . |
| 29 | The survey also found that 74 per cent of the heads of institutions are not confident of the Government 's ability to develop and implement a coherent and successful higher education policy . |
| 30 | A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more . |