Example sentences of "[num] the proportion of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1985 the proportion of councils in party political control had risen to 84 per cent ( Widdicombe , 1986 , vol. 1 , Table 2.1 ) . |
| 2 | Widdicombe ( 1986 , vol. 1 , table 2.1 ) revealed that in 1985 the proportion of councils in party political control had risen to 84 per cent , hence in ‘ many , perhaps most … councils the party group ’ which rarely figures on organization charts — ‘ has become the focus of political decision ’ ( Alexander , 1982a , p. 97 ) . |
| 3 | During the 30 years from 1951 to 1981 the proportion of males aged 60 — 64 who were defined as economically active decreased from 87.5 per cent to 74.6 ( Figure 2.12 ) . |
| 4 | During the eighties the proportion of employees in union membership was down to forty eight percent in nineteen ninety , from fifty eight percent in nineteen ni eighty four . |
| 5 | Between 1970 and 1978 the proportion of dwellings in owner-occupation increased by 4 per cent whereas the increase between 1979 and 1987 was 9.5 per cent . |
| 6 | For example , between 1955 and 1982 the proportion of groupworkers in the Netherlands without the most basic qualification fell from 67 per cent to 25 per cent ( Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | The stockbrokers Phillips and Drew estimated that between 1979 and 1989 the proportion of shares in private hands fell from 33% to 18% . |