Example sentences of "over 50% " in BNC.
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| 1 | the service secor is vitally important , accounting for over 50% of GNP ; |
| 2 | A carefully targeted marketing plan ensured Balbirnie House an occupancy rate of over 50% during it first 18 months of business . |
| 3 | Well over 50% of restaurants in the UK now include English wines on their lists . |
| 4 | Over 50% of the land cleared to produce hamburgers in Brazil has now been exhausted and abandoned . |
| 5 | In May 1977 , over 50% of Britons expressed confidence ‘ in the ability of the United States to deal wisely with world problems . ’ |
| 6 | Arizona law demands that the victor receive over 50% , so a run-off will be held on February 26th . |
| 7 | Even so , Pirelli claims to have assembled an alliance controlling just over 50% of shareholders ' votes , which might seem to give it victory . |
| 8 | Thanks to big one-off dealing losses at certain firms , overall profits from equity trading slumped by over 50% , to less than £400m . |
| 9 | Over 50% of women who have abortions are single , and it is clear that most of these have abortions for this reason ( ie Reason Two ) . |
| 10 | Turnouts of over 50% in individual wards were almost commonplace , and in only one ward throughout the metropolitan areas ( Elswick , Newcastle upon Tyne ) did fewer than one in three of the electorate go to the polls . |
| 11 | Over 80% of Africa 's proved oil reserves lie in the four OPEC countries Nigeria , Algeria , Libya and Gabon and these countries will account for over 50% of oil consumption in the year 2000 . |
| 12 | Already over 50% of the paper we produce in the UK is recycled . |
| 13 | Since over 50% of us seem to opt for a period of co-habitation before we take the marital plunge , these findings are pretty sobering stuff . |
| 14 | Yes : deduct 1 point for each percentage point over 50% |
| 15 | In particular , it extends to Ireland , where imports from the UK account for over 50% of book sales . |
| 16 | But Ernst & Young , Deloitte & Touche and KPMG Peat Marwick , all of which rely on their auditing and accounting for over 50% of total earnings , saw revenue fall in real terms . |
| 17 | A six months subscription costs just £20 , one year £38 and two years only £70 — savings of over 50% on the cover price . |
| 18 | According to Dauberville , members ' subscriptions dropped by over 50% in 1992 , leaving the Comite with a budget of FFr250,000 as compared to FFr1.3 million several years ago . |
| 19 | Over a quarter of these were handled by the Big Four , who dominated the top end of the market , being responsible for over 50% of searches for the $100 000 + positions . |
| 20 | The unit argues that traffic on motorways and urban roads is unlikely to increase over 50% , so the main impact will fall on rural byways which are not equipped to cope with such a volume of vehicles . |
| 21 | Though EC demand is expected to fall , output from all Japan 's EC factories should rise by over 50% this year , reckons Mr Rhys . |
| 22 | If none wins outright on first preferences , the bottom name drops out , and his backers ' second preferences go to their recipients ; then , if need be , the next-bottom drops out ; and so on , till somebody gets over 50% . |
| 23 | If any candidate gets over 50% , he wins . |
| 24 | All levels of government should privatise services to reduce the public sector 's share of GDP , which has crept over 50% . |
| 25 | Sony 's SuperMicro Division forecast that the combined Sony-NEC share of the workstation market would be over 50% by 1993–94 . |
| 26 | IXI Ltd , Cambridge , claims that over 50% of the estimated 400,000 or so existing Motif users are running its X.desktop manager on top of their Open Software Foundation-based windowing environments . |
| 27 | Brauner apart , prices showed defensive strength , the 22% dip in the index in 1991 seeming modest compared to falls of over 50% for several schools of French and American painting . |
| 28 | Expanded and renovated at a cost of C$58 million , but over 50% of staff laid off |
| 29 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 30 | In 1982 , we were given another 5% rise although inflation was well over 50% . |