Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] 40 per [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the land we do have to set-aside , only about 40 per cent would receive compensation , compared to two thirds in France , and 93 per cent in Greece . |
| 2 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 3 | Only about 40 per cent of the electorate vote in local elections ( the turnout in the 1985 English shire county elections , for example , was 41 per cent ) but such a figure can be highly misleading . |
| 4 | Only about 40 per cent of British boilers would meet the proposed standards . |
| 5 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |
| 6 | This is because only about 40 per cent of total costs are ‘ specific ’ to particular sectors ; the rest represents facilities , such as track , signalling and administration , that are shared by the different sectors . |
| 7 | Although safe and effective vaccines have been available for 10 years , only around 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Europe are vaccinated . |
| 8 | Yet they are credited with only around 40 per cent of the vote — exactly the same as their score in the 1981 general election in which the Socialists were swept to power . |
| 9 | just under 40 per cent admitted that weigh gain was the worst problem created by their sugar cravings |
| 10 | It might be of interest to the House to hear that already about 40 per cent . |
| 11 | These form just over 40 per cent of the East Bank population . |
| 12 | Of the 1m females in the health service in 1970 , for example , just over 40 per cent were part-time workers . |
| 13 | In just over 40 per cent of cases the husband was , as traditional , the sole earner , and , in roughly equal numbers ( 5 per cent each ) were cases where neither spouse earned , and cases where the wife was the sole earner . |
| 14 | It is now down to just over 40 per cent . |
| 15 | The NDP failed to improve on its popular vote , winning just over 40 per cent , but benefited from the division of the rest of the electorate between Socred and the Liberals . |
| 16 | Wine imports over the same period were reduced by just over 40 per cent . |
| 17 | He pointed out in Committee that , according to the Audit Commission , the proportion in inner city areas is probably around 40 per cent . |
| 18 | As expenditure has risen so have taxes and the proportion of G N P taken up by taxes and social security payments is also around 40 per cent . |
| 19 | The referendum was monitored by 12,000 members of the security forces , 490 delegates from the Catholic Church , 50 international observers and 300 foreign journalists , and was considered the cleanest and most peaceful poll ever held in Panama , but was marked by a high abstention rate ( the turnout was only slightly over 40 per cent ) . |
| 20 | Altogether about 40 per cent of public spending was directly cash limited . |
| 21 | On the contrary , as Professor Northcote Parkinson noted at the time , the civil service expanded as never before , locally as well as nationally , and the prominent place of central-government expenditure ( consistently over 40 per cent as a proportion of gross national product in this period ) is an outstanding feature of the period 1951–64 . |
| 22 | The percentage of all rape cases reported in our sample of newspapers increased from a steady 25 per cent over the two decades , 1951 to 1971 , to very nearly 40 per cent in 1978 . |