Example sentences of "[adv] 30 per cent of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the three main areas in which the relationship between manufacturer and final consumer is affected by vertical restraints , covering perhaps 30 per cent of UK retail trade by value . |
| 2 | EMPLOYERS gain almost two hours a week on average from early-bird employees , and only 30 per cent of employees contribute no extra time at all , according to a report by the mobile communications group Phonepoint . |
| 3 | Clearly the legacy of the war was a huge current account deficit , with exports in 1945 at only 30 per cent of their prewar level ( imports 60 per cent ) , and shipping earnings substantially diminished . |
| 4 | ‘ Only 30 per cent of Vung Tau is perfect ; the rest is damaged , from a small chip to half the piece missing . |
| 5 | According to Rob Strachan , who has recently completed the field work for a Water Vole Survey of Britain , funded by the Vincent Wildlife Trust , only 30 per cent of the sites where water voles were found before 1939 still have them today . |
| 6 | The gap must be narrowed between the rich countries of the world and the poorer countries where 70 per cent of the world 's people live on only 30 per cent of its income . |
| 7 | However , despite general agreement about the need for groupworkers to be supervised by university trained personnel , this occurs in only 30 per cent of services in Flanders ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | The first was that the Maronite community — which at best constituted only 30 per cent of the Lebanese — was almost certainly outnumbered by the Sunnis or the Shias . |
| 9 | Although they contained only 30 per cent of the whole secondary-school population , they marshalled 10 per cent of all sixth formers — pupils , that is , voluntarily staying on to the age of eighteen . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that at least one in 10 couples — some researchers suggest one in six — have fertility problems , the new technology results in the birth of a child in only 30 per cent of cases at best ( often the rate is lower ) . |
| 11 | Though Brazil 's massive debt of about $115 billion is only 30 per cent of GNP , its debt service ratio is over 50 per cent . |
| 12 | By that time the native peoples constituted a minority of only 30 per cent of the total population of Siberia , and they remained at that level until the end of the eighteenth century , although their own numbers increased from 288,000 in 1719 to 732,000 in 1795 . |
| 13 | Businesses in the decline phase of their life-cycle achieved only 30 per cent of potential performance . |
| 14 | Hence also the introduction in 1789 of a very ambitious though shortlived scheme of tax reform which provided that in future the peasant should pay to State and lord combined only 30 per cent of his gross income . |
| 15 | Only 30 per cent of the drugs could be used by health workers in the disaster area . |
| 16 | Only 30 per cent of the usual resources had been used to achieve this , and the entire harvest had been sold , he said . |
| 17 | However , to someone facing the weak poverty trap , and again with the illustrative numbers above , this is worth only 30 per cent of £40 , i.e. £12 , because the explicit tax rate applies only to the net-of-transfer income ; i.e. . |
| 18 | A major problem for LTOM is that it derives only 30 per cent of its turnover from retail investors unlike the average of 70 per cent achieved at other pure options exchanges such as the CBOE and the EOE . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Research has shown that 70 per cent of us would prefer to die at home and only 30 per cent of us do . |
| 20 | Even in the poorest countries of all , there was a dramatic surge in the proportion of children receiving primary schooling : from just 30 per cent of boys and 14 per cent of girls in 1960 to 68 per cent of boys and 43 per cent of girls in the mid-1980s . |
| 21 | ‘ This is a $15 billion industry and already 30 per cent of it is accounted for by diet drinks . ’ |
| 22 | AMP has approximately 30 per cent of the life insurance and superannuation markets in Australia and is the largest manager of private retirement funds in that country and New Zealand . |
| 23 | By 1987 52 per cent of the West Bank and approximately 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip had been transferred to Jewish control . |
| 24 | The problem is also significant in China where there are c. 170 000 km 2 of desertified land , approximately 30 per cent of which has been created since 1920 ( Zhu Zhenda 1982 , quoted in Kebin and Kaiguo 1989 ) . |
| 25 | It was found that approximately 30 per cent of the map area was made up of polygons which did not agree with the initial map descriptions . |
| 26 | Shares can then be bought again , but care must be taken because once 30 per cent of the shares are held a ‘ mandatory offer ’ must be made — a full offer for the company . |
| 27 | By 1979 , just under 30 per cent of the land in the reformed sector had been restored to its former owners ( Castillo and Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 28 | In 70–80 per cent of all streets in the town , the amount of time spent by the car driver is under 30 per cent of that of the total time spent by all other people on the street . |
| 29 | Just under 30 per cent of black trainees obtain work as opposed to just over 45 per cent of their white counterparts . |
| 30 | Hence the equation leaves unexplained just over 70 per cent of the total variance , or conversely it explains just under 30 per cent of the variance [ ] . |