Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] over [num] per cent " in BNC.
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1 | For example , Britain received $3.2billion of the $12.8billion Marshall money — worth just over 7 per cent of all our imports of goods and services over the five years . |
2 | Participants in the Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) make up the largest share of these , accounting for nearly nine per cent of all temporary workers , and participants in the Community Programme ( CP ) together with a small number in the Community Industry programme make up almost all the remainder , accounting for just over four per cent . |
3 | McCAW 'S revised offer for just over 50 per cent of LIN Broadcasting is cleverly structured . |
4 | February 's inflation rate showed a 2.3 per cent monthly increase ( the biggest monthly rise for four years ) , representing an annualized rate for early 1990 of just over 13 per cent , substantially above the budget target . |
5 | Of these , 191 secondary teachers , 54 middle and 134 primary teachers responded , in many cases only after several reminders ; a response rate of just over 52 per cent , a rate very similar to that in the earlier survey in Solihull ( op. cit . ) . |
6 | The Wellington trainer , who has a strike rate of just over 37 per cent at the Lancashire course , landed a double there yesterday with all-the-way winners Tri Folene and Star 's Delight , and it would come as no surprise if he doubled that score today . |
7 | A consequence of the recession has been a reduction of just over six per cent in the 5,000 worldwide workforce in the past 12 months . |
8 | Over 9,700 candidates competed in the elections and a turnout of just over 60 per cent was officially recorded . |
9 | There was a relatively low turnout of just over 60 per cent . |
10 | The test yielded a mean score of just over 50 per cent for all pupils participating . |
11 | This would constitute an improvement of just over 50 per cent on the original return on the investment in XYZ Ltd . |
12 | This reduces the effect of the synonyms to a figure that could have been achieved by choosing an initial packing density of just over 33 per cent for the file — but this file is 90 per cent packed . |
13 | However , for the Gosville Company the general picture was of increase from 1939 to 1949 , then a period of stability , followed by decline in service frequency of just over 15 per cent during the 1970s . |
14 | To take Bury South , No 32 on Labour 's list of target seats , it needs a swing of just over 2.5 per cent . |
15 | That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent . |
16 | The most likely method involves the leasing of the necessary hardware , and the Scottish case is strengthened by projected payback of well over 100 per cent a year from the savings to the national economy in eliminating or minimising congestion — estimated to cost up to £1.5 billion a year in Scotland . |
17 | In the last decade or so of his reign , approximately 100 mints functioned ( even if not all did so continuously ) : for the volume of the coinage they produced , only a " ball-park estimate " can be given — perhaps tens of millions of coins — but the quality of the coins has recently been very precisely determined : whereas before 864 many coins were debased by up to 50 per cent , after 864 a silver-content of well over 90 per cent was secured across the board . |
18 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
19 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
20 | Midland has currently made provisions against just over 50 per cent of its South American debt exposure , in line with Bank of England guidelines . |
21 | He said the choice lay between an election system like PR which allowed an extremist party one MP for six per cent of the vote , or one which allowed an extremist party to take full power with just over 30 per cent . |
22 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
23 | Presidential and legislative elections were held in November 1989 , when Callejas was elected with just over 50 per cent of the vote , and the PN won 71 of the 128 seats in the National Assembly [ see pp. 37038-39 ; 37275 ] . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | In just over 40 per cent of cases the husband was , as traditional , the sole earner , and , in roughly equal numbers ( 5 per cent each ) were cases where neither spouse earned , and cases where the wife was the sole earner . |
26 | On the six new long-term capital issues they made between 1948 and 1955 to finance expansion — each for £100–200 millions — they paid a rate which rose from a little over 3 per cent initially to just over 4½ per cent by 1955 . |
27 | Between 1976 and 1986 when the total number of one parent families increased by 35 per cent , families headed by women increased more than families headed by men — almost 40 per cent compared to just over 10 per cent . |
28 | Last month it fell to just over 4 per cent . |
29 | Just under 30 per cent of black trainees obtain work as opposed to just over 45 per cent of their white counterparts . |
30 | Faced with medical evidence that the number of Frenchmen with below-average sperm counts had increased from twenty-nine per cent to just over seventy per cent , a specialist laid the blame on depression , anxiety , overwork , the use of tranquillizers and insomnia . |