Example sentences of "[adv] about 10 [unc] cent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only about 10 per cent of respondents favoured a return . |
| 2 | Most of the specialists are Dermato -venereologists , and usually only about 10 per cent of the patients they see are suffering from a sexually transmitted disease , the remainder having skin problems . |
| 3 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 4 | One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police . |
| 5 | Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position . |
| 6 | Only about 10 per cent of the Chile 's estimated 400,000 temporeros belong to any kind of union . |
| 7 | The Mexican Finance Ministry had announced on Jan. 10 , 1990 , that only about 10 per cent of the banks had chosen the new loans option , one of three choices under the four-year commercial bank debt refinancing agreement reached in July 1989 with 15 major banking creditors . |
| 8 | Men might also leave the land , members of Wigston families migrated to Leicester into commerce , and it reflects the mobility of the population that only about 10 per cent of the families there survived in the male line from 1377 to the time of Henry VIII . |
| 9 | Only about 10 per cent of expenditure went on services that were clearly pro poor and about 20 per cent were biased toward those services ( e.g. education , roads , leisure services ) that favoured the better off . |
| 10 | The bank 's liability is generally about 10 per cent of the contract price , but , however it can be higher . |
| 11 | Thereafter about 10 per cent of qualified staff left annually , particularly in the younger age groups which is partially compensated for by the re-entry of qualified staff . |