Example sentences of "and about [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrongful dismissal actions seldom reach a full trial in the High Court and about 70 per cent of all unfair dismissal claims are settled or withdrawn without the need for a hearing . |
| 2 | This reveals that these companies accounted for about 40 per cent of manufacturing industry 's net assets , employment , and inward direct investment from overseas ( excluding oil company investment ) , 40–50 per cent of visible exports , 70 per cent of expenditure on industrial scientific research and development , and about 75 per cent of direct investment by UK companies ( excluding oil ) in manufacturing overseas . |
| 3 | ‘ Marius Steen made over his three houses and about 75 per cent of his other assets to his son some years ago . |
| 4 | The French record market is very conservative and about 80 per cent of the records in their chart are actually French . |
| 5 | About 34 per cent of employment within the zones was in pre-designation companies , and about 34 per cent had transferred in . |
| 6 | About 30 per cent of polytechnic/college graduates and about 5 per cent of university graduates are the products of ‘ sandwich ’ courses which include either one ( year ) long placement or several shorter ones ( AGCAS 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Of the employment in new branches , about 50 per cent had relocated from elsewhere within the UK , 35 per cent from the local area or the region and about 14 per cent from abroad . |
| 8 | Ethnic minority groups account for 3.9 per cent of the economically-active working age population in Britain and about 10 per cent in London . |
| 9 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 10 | The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned . |
| 11 | Nearly 20 per cent of the bottom third and about 10 per cent of the top chose July on each occasion , possibly because it is both one of the two hottest and one of the two sunniest months . |
| 12 | There are now more than 6400 restaurants in 41 countries and about 85 per cent of these restaurants are owned and operationed by franchisees . |
| 13 | It has a significant interest in the Harp lager consortium , and about 11 per cent of the take-home brown ale market . |
| 14 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more school are introducing some mixed ability group in their first three years , and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now . |
| 15 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more schools are introducing some mixed ability groups in their first three years and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now , something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 16 | ‘ At present , only about one per cent of police officers in England and Wales and about 1.5 per cent of Metropolitan Police officers are from racial minorities . ’ |
| 17 | A survey by the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers reveals that under the new financing formula nearly 60 per cent of secondary schools will be less well funded and about 40 per cent better resourced . |
| 18 | In a previous double-blind trial , it had been found to be of value in about 70 per cent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and about 40 per cent of those with osteoarthritis . |
| 19 | Most of the projects are in Asia and about 40 per cent of the funds went to projects in very poor countries ; investment in fertilizers , chemicals and petrochemicals was the largest single group . |
| 20 | For example , those aged 65 and over accounted for one-third of all NHS prescriptions and about 40 per cent of acute hospital-bed occupation . |
| 21 | in the magistrates courts received immediate custody , and about 40 per cent . |
| 22 | This suggests that the expansion is largely due to rural-urban migration , which is estimated to account for 40–70 per cent of urban growth in the post-war period up to 1970 ( Morse 1971 ) , and about 50 per cent since then . |
| 23 | Over 75 per cent of people with secondary syphilis will have some form of rash , and about 50 per cent will have a generalized enlargement of the lymph glands . |
| 24 | According to UN envoy Jean Ripert , sent to Jordan in October , the crisis would cost Jordan as much as 30 per cent of GDP in 1990 and about 50 per cent in 1991 . |
| 25 | After a visit to Amman in October the UN special envoy , Jean Ripert , estimated that the crisis would cost Jordan as much as 30 per cent of GDP in 1990 and about 50 per cent in 1991 . |
| 26 | The average non-farming income for the south-west of England ‘ from non-farming sources ’ in 1989 was £9,356 , and about 66 per cent came from waged employment . |
| 27 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 28 | Affiliates of TNCs accounted for about one-eighth of the Third World food processing industry , and about 90 per cent of this was in the branded goods and the export sector . |
| 29 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
| 30 | Of these 20,000 males and 1,100 females ( nearly 25 per cent and about 30 per cent respectively ) were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments . |