Example sentences of "nearly 10 [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 Some 4,690 Wensleydale households took part in the survey which shows that nearly 10 per cent of local residents need immediate additional accommodation or will do so shortly .
2 Sales , on a like-for-like basis , were down nearly 10 per cent , with operating losses of £5.2m .
3 Nearly 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface is covered by ice , which remains as terra incognita to climatologists as it was to 17th-century explorers .
4 Public borrowing rose to nearly 10 per cent of national income — equivalent to £55,000 million today .
5 As a result , in the sixty years from 1851 the proportion of old people living in institutions almost doubled , rising to over 7 per cent of men over 65 and nearly 10 per cent of those over 75 , and slightly over half this figure for women .
6 The fall in this share from 1979 to 1983 was mainly the result of the nearly 10 per cent decline in that period in the personal incomes of government employees in comparison with incomes of employees in productive industries .
7 A reflection of this is the way they are all trying to develop their lager interests in a market where lager is growing at nearly 10 per cent per annum and is likely to command over 40 per cent of all sales this year .
8 The number of populars ( excluding the Daily Worker/Morning Star , which fitted easily into neither category ) was six in each year , but total circulation was down by nearly 10 per cent .
9 In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years .
10 One estimate is that the new independent labels and distributors accounted , by the mid-1980s for nearly 10 per cent of British record sales .
11 Taxes on income by corporations , including profits tax , amount to nearly 10 per cent of the total .
12 More than 13,000 Africans study in the Soviet Union ( nearly 10 per cent of all foreign students ) , and many welcome confirmation of the killings as a sign that glasnost may end Soviet press silence on racism , and actively educate people about such matters .
13 However , the British population is highly mobile ( nearly 10 per cent move house in any year ) , and so political changes in some constituencies may reflect changes in the resident population rather than in individual voting habits .
14 On completion the giant hydro-electric project would render productive 76,835 sq km of arid and semi-arid land — nearly 10 per cent of the country 's area — covering six provinces .
15 In the first seven months of 1990 productivity was down nearly 10 per cent compared with the same period of 1989 ; 37,000 people were unemployed ; and retail prices had increased dramatically ( according to figures published on Aug. 18 the cost of living index had risen by 108 per cent between May and July alone ) .
16 It included a flat-rate increase of 65 lire an hour ( nearly 10 per cent of average hourly earnings ) , a progressive reduction in weekly working hours to 40 by 1972 , equal treatment of blue- and white-collar workers when sick , and overtime limits with compensation for lost earnings .
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