Example sentences of "was about [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Mexico City , the acceleration in bedrock was about 4 per cent of the acceleration due to gravity . |
| 2 | The turn-out was about 16 per cent . |
| 3 | In 1991 total spending in real terms was about 18 per cent higher than in 1979 . |
| 4 | Even by the second decade of this century , the illiteracy rate for the Brazilian population was about 80 per cent . |
| 5 | The percentage of households earning more than $50,000 in 1980 was about 80 per cent of the city average . |
| 6 | It was about 80 per cent pure and you know there 's no rubbish in it . |
| 7 | Turnout among the 60,000 registered electors was about 80 per cent . |
| 8 | For executives below board level the median increase was about 10 per cent . |
| 9 | To buy a second engraved copy at 24 livres , which was about 5 per cent of the cost of a good harpsichord , would have been extravagant at a time when copying was cheap . |
| 10 | He caught over a stone of roach , which was about 200 per cent more than any normal angler would have managed . |
| 11 | For sub-divisions into broad age-groups within Districts the average error was about five per cent . |
| 12 | The fact that manual workers married on average , and throughout the period , about a year earlier helped contribute to this , as did the fact that there was about fifty per cent more childlessness among non-manual families . |
| 13 | In October 1988 , a 25 per cent drop in ozone levels was measured by the total ozone monitoring spectrometer ( TOMS ) on board the Nimbus-7 satellite , while in October 1987 and 1990 the depletion was about 55 per cent . |
| 14 | ( The French population tended to shift to the towns much more slowly ; we are told the rate was about 3 per cent per decade down to 1911 , and this had been true for a century . ) |
| 15 | Since the average rate of interest paid on the deposits was about 9 per cent ( Mates 1986 ) , the banks would have needed to charge an average interest rate on their counterpart dinar loans of over 50 per cent in order to cover themselves . |
| 16 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 17 | Last year , the figure was about 25 per cent . |
| 18 | The turnout in the second round of voting was about 40 per cent . |
| 19 | The proportion of women married below age 20 still childless after 20 years was about 2 per cent for women married in 1951 , 3 per cent for women married in 1956 . |
| 20 | It does appear that , in general , British new towns have a better than average safety record : a 1975 TRRL report suggests that the frequency of injury accidents in seven ‘ Mark One ’ new towns was about 20 per cent less than in other towns . |
| 21 | In 1922 on average throughout European Russia and Siberia the percentage of peasant households without a plough was about 23 per cent . |
| 22 | In the years 1977 — 83 the ratio of the increase in the money supply to consolidated government budgetary expenditure was about 15 per cent . |
| 23 | Using the ancient method , the maximum zinc content was about 28 per cent , but as the process developed this increased to about 33 per cent . |
| 24 | The Zimbabwe dollar fell by 47 per cent against the dollar in 1991 and the annual inflation rate was about 30 per cent . |
| 25 | Pomerania , with a population of over 100,000 Polish-speakers , was about 35 per cent Polish , and in spite of the flight from the land and the flight of the population to the industrial centres of the west , Pomerania was one of the few Prussian provinces to show a marked increase in its population , and almost all of that growth was attributed to the Poles . |
| 26 | For example , Japan recorded decreases in overall stroke mortality for both men and women of about 50 per cent between 1972 and 1982 ; in England and Wales the decrease was about 35 per cent over the same period ( Smith and Jacobson 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Turnout was about 64 per cent of the 10,000,000 people eligible to vote , and of the total votes cast 15.35 per cent were either blank or invalid . |