Example sentences of "[prep] just under [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an £8m programme AMI is doubling the resources in its psychiatric division , which accounted for just under 5 per cent of group sales last year . |
| 2 | In the remainder of the hundred these two groups accounted for just under 30 per cent . |
| 3 | Gross national product ( GNP ) grew by an average of just under 5 per cent in 1989 and 1990 , while the annual rate of inflation fell to below 3 per cent by the end of 1990 . |
| 4 | The overall turnout was around 60 per cent compared with 76 per cent in 1986 , and an average in past elections of just under 80 per cent . |
| 5 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 6 | In the late fourteenth century , between 1371 and 1401 when rural rents were declining , the number of tenements owned by the vicars-choral of the Minster increased from 183 to 238 , and the average rent rose from 6.7 to 7.1s. , an increase of just under 6 per cent . |
| 7 | Haussmann confirmed the buoyant state of the West German economy , with around 413,000 more in employment in 1989 than in 1988 and a moderate rate of inflation of just under 3 per cent per annum . |
| 8 | Shop stewards have recommended accepting the offer of just under 9 per cent — worth £10 a week to most bakers — two extra days ' holiday by April 1991 to make five weeks a year , and other benefits , including better sick pay . |
| 9 | However , the biennial consideration of High Court Interlocutory fees produced an uprating of just under ten per cent over two years . |
| 10 | Almost thirty per cent of the the population are employers , managers or white collar workers with just under six per cent unskilled labourers . |
| 11 | Half of the theses were cited in the Science Citation Index , with just under thirty per cent of these being self-citations . |
| 12 | Under the system of proportional representation used in the 1986 election , his party managed to win 35 parliamentary seats with just under 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 13 | As a result , remand prisoners in 1999 accounted for 22 per cent of the total population in custody , compared with just under 12 per cent in 1976 . |
| 14 | Admittedly the rise is small — from just under 24 per cent of the vote to 25.6 . |
| 15 | Food and housing are still the two biggest bills but spending on eating has dropped from 33 per cent of the weekly budget in 1957 to just under 18 per cent . |
| 16 | He took over 69 per cent of the vote , as opposed to just under 30 per cent for his rival , former senator Narciso Irureta , seen as belonging to the left wing of the party . |
| 17 | As can be seen from table 6.6 , the proportion of all families with dependent children which are headed by a single parent increased from just over 8 per cent in 1971 to just under 12 per cent in 1981 . |
| 18 | The societies ' worst point came in 1987 when their market share was reduced to just under 50 per cent ; the banks had 34.5 per cent and other finance companies 16.3 per cent . |
| 19 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 20 | Inflation was a major concern during 1990 , running at just under 10 per cent . |
| 21 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 22 | Ostensibly agriculture has a fine record — between 1961 and 1973 labour productivity bounded along at over 7 per cent per annum , though overall growth of output at just under 3 per cent was less impressive [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 23 | Between 1950 and the early 1970s the sector grew by just under 10 per cent and the increase was mainly made up of financial and commercial services . |
| 24 | Between 1979 and 1988 the total number of indictable offences known to the police ( ignoring offences of criminal damage of value 20 or less ) increased by just under 50 per cent ( the 1988 total was in fact 4.5 per cent down on the previous year ) . |