Example sentences of "over 10 [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What impact the British offer would have on the brain drain , which is expected to push over 10 per cent of the population out of the colony before China 's 1997 takeover , was not clear . |
| 2 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Until 1986 , education budgets were sustained at over 10 per cent of government expenditure , but hyper-inflation , currency devaluation and overall budget cutbacks have eaten into the real amounts of money involved . |
| 5 | By 1993 , we will be producing 28 per cent of the total ; France and Germany just over 10 per cent each . |
| 6 | Manganese nodules with over 10 per cent Mn occur in Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland . |
| 7 | Manganese nodules with over 10 per cent Mn occur in Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland but resources are probably small . |
| 8 | Just over 10 per cent of the bottom two bands gave an answer which indicated they had used the wrong scale . |
| 9 | With over 60 per cent of households owning a VCR and virtually 50 per cent with at least two TV sets ; with 11 channels available via BSkyB 's Astra satellite , and over 10 per cent household penetration ; and video film rentals running at over 500 million per year ; the use made of a fairly stable total screen time per viewer is becoming progressively more diffuse . |
| 10 | Martin ( 1988 ) aggregates employment in a wider group of growth sectors and calculates that the South East region 's share of employment is over 41 per cent , with East Anglia and the South West together claiming over 10 per cent more . |
| 11 | Phillips and Williams ( 1982b ) found that over 10 per cent of the 1,000 applicants in South Devon were living in bedsitters or caravans , while about one in five were sharing a kitchen , bathroom or WC ; 5 per cent were living in accommodation that lacked at least one of these facilities , and some even lacked mains electricity or water . |
| 12 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 13 | At the more local scale of the metropolitan districts , the changes expected for Knowsley and Liverpool are as big as -18.2 and -16.1 per cent respectively , while Gateshead and Salford are also projected to lose over 10 per cent of their population in this 16-year period . |
| 14 | However , the process is by no means uniform and Table 5.3 shows that a small number of towns in the rural districts actually lost population between 1971 and 1981 , although the dominant trend was increases of over 10 per cent in both of the rural categories at the foot of the table . |
| 15 | Moreover , by the beginning of the 19th century , the rate of growth had become really fast — well over 10 per cent in ten years . ’ |
| 16 | Outside London there was only a handful of districts with over 10 per cent of their population living in households with a NCWP-born head Luton and Slough in the South East , Birmingham , Sand well and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands , Blackburn in Lancashire , and the City of Leicester , being the highest at 21.7 per cent in 1981 . |
| 17 | By contrast , West Bromwich , Manchester , London and Liverpool all sustained losses amounting to over 10 per cent of their work force . |
| 18 | But the study showed over 10 per cent of GPs were prescribing oestrogen only . |
| 19 | In a confidential report he reviewed the properties of steels containing upward of 5 per cent chromium , and concluded that steels containing over 10 per cent chromium should be investigated . |
| 20 | The formula for calculating the tension of an open-wound string is likely to give a figure over 10 per cent too high because the theory behind it does not consider the deviation of the winding wire from a circular cross-section as it is bent around the core . |
| 21 | Neither does it reveal the decline in holdings of short-term assets , from over 10 per cent of the total in 1978 . |
| 22 | Total Waterford Crystal US sales were over 10 per cent up on 1991 . |
| 23 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth rate in 1989 was estimated at just over 10 per cent , slightly lower than the 1988 growth rate of 11 per cent . |
| 24 | As compared with regional showings in the GDR general election on March 13 , 1990 [ see pp. 37300-03 ] , the CDU share of the vote overall went up , due to an increase of over 10 per cent in support in Saxony ( where support for the DSU , however , dropped by a corresponding amount ) . |
| 25 | Ershad 's Jatiya Party won over 10 per cent of the seats , including that won by Ershad himself ( who was under arrest and facing serious corruption charges ) in his home district of Rangpur . |
| 26 | Pesticides and defoliant residues on a swathe round the coast tens of kilometres wide of exposed seabed resulted in greatly increased heart disease , cancer , and deaths from chronic gastritis , kidney disease and tuberculosis , with over 10 per cent of children dying in their first year . |
| 27 | The company is the country 's third largest imported beer marketer , with over 10 per cent of the market . |
| 28 | They can calculate all too clearly that the average value of sterling has fallen 17.5 per cent , ( and over 25 per cent against the dollar ) since September , and the price of fuel and raw materials for industry has so far risen by just over 10 per cent , while retail prices have actually fallen . |
| 29 | But the north of England , Yorkshire and Humberside fared significantly worse with increases in the number of business failures of over 10 per cent . |