Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] 70 per cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the same period only about 70 per cent of the pupils who complete fifth grade every year will be able to continue their schooling in the regular education system . |
| 2 | For now the geologists ' definition is sufficient : the tectonic Pacific is a body that is only about 70 per cent of the area of the conventionally accepted Ocean , and omits the coasts of all the South American and most of the South-East-Asian countries . |
| 3 | Dentine differs from enamel in that the inorganic part constitutes only about 70 per cent by volume . |
| 4 | The slower tester ran just below 70 per cent of MHR and found it uncomfortable to push any harder for 10 minutes , let alone 20 . |
| 5 | The latest official evidence shows that just under 70 per cent of adults with a disability — 4.2 million people — are over the age of 60 , compared with 25 per cent of the general population . |
| 6 | Ethnic Georgians , who constituted just under 70 per cent of the republic 's population , were assumed to have voted almost unanimously in favour . |
| 7 | Just over 70 per cent of students had been in receipt of an SERC award whilst on their Advanced Course . |
| 8 | Hence the equation leaves unexplained just over 70 per cent of the total variance , or conversely it explains just under 30 per cent of the variance [ ] . |
| 9 | Probably about 70 per cent of the women were in there because of drugs — a phenomenal proportion . |
| 10 | Relations between China and Singapore were especially sensitive given that well over 70 per cent of Singapore 's population were of Chinese descent . |
| 11 | If it is assumed that this country had achieved the minimum level of industrial development by 1850 , then the available circumstantial evidence suggests that by then about 70 per cent of the working class had achieved basic literacy rates . |