Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] 10 per cent " in BNC.

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1 Third , only a small proportion of those leaving the cities moved to new towns , perhaps only 10 per cent .
2 Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy .
3 Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) .
4 Here , similar classes were emerging but only about 10 per cent were able to employ wage labour regularly and only 20 per cent provided it regularly .
5 Only about 10 per cent of respondents favoured a return .
6 Most of the specialists are Dermato -venereologists , and usually only about 10 per cent of the patients they see are suffering from a sexually transmitted disease , the remainder having skin problems .
7 As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken .
8 One Chief Constable has estimated that only about 10 per cent of all crime is reported to the police .
9 And manager Joe Kinnear last night reported that John Fashanu was in agony after pulling his hamstring again after coming on as a substitute even though he was ‘ only about 10 per cent fit . ’
10 Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position .
11 reach the stage of proceedings being started , and only about 10 per cent .
12 Only about 10 per cent of the Chile 's estimated 400,000 temporeros belong to any kind of union .
13 The Mexican Finance Ministry had announced on Jan. 10 , 1990 , that only about 10 per cent of the banks had chosen the new loans option , one of three choices under the four-year commercial bank debt refinancing agreement reached in July 1989 with 15 major banking creditors .
14 Men might also leave the land , members of Wigston families migrated to Leicester into commerce , and it reflects the mobility of the population that only about 10 per cent of the families there survived in the male line from 1377 to the time of Henry VIII .
15 Only about 10 per cent of expenditure went on services that were clearly pro poor and about 20 per cent were biased toward those services ( e.g. education , roads , leisure services ) that favoured the better off .
16 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 .
17 Only around 10 per cent claimed to recall the contents well and even fewer had made use of the response sheets provided on it .
18 The three major paper producers in northern Europe — Finland , Sweden and Norway — recycle only around 10 per cent of their paper .
19 The average expectation of interest rates under the Tories was just below 10 per cent , while under Labour rates are expected to rise to 11.6 per cent .
20 It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 per cent where they stood .
21 After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ?
22 By 1988 there were almost 300,000 , just under 10 per cent of the estimated population of Lebanon .
23 Between 1950 and the early 1970s the sector grew by just under 10 per cent and the increase was mainly made up of financial and commercial services .
24 Inflation was a major concern during 1990 , running at just under 10 per cent .
25 Under the system of proportional representation used in the 1986 election , his party managed to win 35 parliamentary seats with just under 10 per cent of the vote .
26 The bank 's liability is generally about 10 per cent of the contract price , but , however it can be higher .
27 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 .
28 By 1993 , we will be producing 28 per cent of the total ; France and Germany just over 10 per cent each .
29 Just over 10 per cent of the bottom two bands gave an answer which indicated they had used the wrong scale .
30 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 .
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