Example sentences of "around 10 [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existing equity holders may also be asked to participate in a further round of equity raising , for around 10 per cent of the total . |
| 2 | Moreover , he says that the present level of interest rates may mean that instead of prices stagnating next year they could fall by around 10 per cent . |
| 3 | This is around 10 per cent . |
| 4 | The late Victorian and Edwardian period offered low taxes , cheap servant labour , and reasonable returns of capital whilst the retail price index fell by around 10 per cent between the wars . |
| 5 | Every year he expects to lose around 10 per cent of his lambs . |
| 6 | By 1953 , Defence expenditure had almost doubled and was running at around 10 per cent of GDP . |
| 7 | John Perry , chief executive of Unisys UK , added that the British subsidiary made a profit of around 10 per cent , in spite of the adverse economic climate . |
| 8 | The UK chemical industry is one of the most successful parts of the economy producing around 10 per cent of the net manufacturing output and placing Britain among the top four chemical exporting nations . |
| 9 | Conventional solar cells rely on silicon crystals , and energy conversion is around 10 per cent . |
| 10 | However , despite these encouraging figures , marketing studies carried out in the USA show that most home-gym equipment goes unused and only around 10 per cent of American adults engage in brisk , regular exercise . |
| 11 | By 1988 interim results indicated that around 10 per cent fewer accidents occurred than would have been expected without the schemes . |
| 12 | Home loans now stand at around 10 per cent . |
| 13 | The table documents a growth in the proportion of those living by themselves from around 10 per cent in 1945 to over one-third in 1980 . |
| 14 | If the rate of violence amongst families in the population is relatively low , and we have noted that the incidence of sexual abuse maybe around 10 per cent while the incidence of serious physical abuse may be 3–4 per cent ( Straus et al . , |
| 15 | Per kWh in winter as against ½d. in summer , which might cut peak consumption by around 10 per cent . |
| 16 | It performed quite well in my network benchmarks , nosing ahead of the RSC by around 10 per cent . |
| 17 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 18 | Western Europe produced around 10 per cent throughout this period , and the rest of the world only some 3 per cent . |
| 19 | Around 10 per cent of pupils gave responses of the form 0.4 = |
| 20 | Of those people in their sixties and seventies in the 1980s only about 5 per cent are in full-time employment past normal retirement age ; a somewhat larger number , around 10 per cent , let it be known that they work part-time ( Social Trends , 1979 , Table 11 ) . |
| 21 | Largely because of migration patterns , the non-white population is also younger than the white population ; for example , around 4 per cent ( approximately 97,000 ) of the black and Asian populations had reached retirement age by 1986 , compared with around 10 per cent of the white population ( Patel , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | While expenditure was reduced after this , by the 1960s , with the entry of the United States into the Vietnam conflict , it rose to around 10 per cent of GDP once more . |
| 23 | These conclusions were partially based on an attempt to identify users and their needs empirically ( Jones et al. , 1985 ) , though that exercise was somewhat disappointing because of the very low response rate ( reportedly around 10 per cent ) . |
| 24 | Languages : Bulgarian ( official ) ; Turkish spoken by around 10 per cent of population . |
| 25 | Around 10 per cent of Albania 's population was estimated to be Catholic . |
| 26 | Manufacturing output increased by around 10 per cent , and manufactures now accounted for about 80 per cent of all exports ( compared with about 33 per cent in 1980 ) . |
| 27 | It planned a 6 per cent increase in expenditure on public works ( in accordance with the SII deal ) , but suggested that local authorities would be encouraged to increase public works expenditure by around 10 per cent . |
| 28 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 29 | Left-wing parties were highly critical of the proposals , and called instead for increases in public spending to reduce unemployment , which was expected to remain at around 10 per cent . |
| 30 | Only around 10 per cent claimed to recall the contents well and even fewer had made use of the response sheets provided on it . |