Example sentences of "[v-ing] over [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agriculture was the backbone of the economy , employing over 80 per cent of the resident labour force ; pastoral husbandry was the main activity , with wool and mohair the principal exports . |
| 2 | The KMT won a resounding victory , gaining over 70 per cent of votes cast . |
| 3 | A quarter of the sixth formers take A-level art , frequently gaining over 80 per cent A-grades . |
| 4 | Yet AMP is prepared to embark on a £1bn adventure , representing over 6 per cent of its assets , which at best will only give it a share of the British life insurance market of between 2 and 2.5 per cent . |
| 5 | In school A the proportion of pupils of Afro-Caribbean and Asian origin is approximately 25 percent , whereas for school B the ethnic ‘ minority ’ pupils are in the majority , comprising over 60 per cent of the school population . |
| 6 | Stage 3 is defined as comprising between 20 and 50 per cent slow waves in the EEG , and Stage 4 sleep as comprising over 50 per cent of the record dominated by slow waves . |
| 7 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 8 | In a second by-election , in Oshawa , near Toronto , the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) held the seat of Ed Broadbent , its former federal leader who retired earlier in the year , polling over 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 9 | Material suppliers ' levels of plant utilisation have fallen again with 25 per cent of companies reporting over 90 per cent utilisation ; the lowest proportion for over five years . |
| 10 | Partial offers are not very common in the UK because where the offer is for 30 per cent or more of the voting rights it can only succeed if shareholders holding over 50 per cent of the voting rights of the target company ( excluding those held by the offeror and its concert parties ) vote in favour of the offer ( Rule 36.5 ) . |
| 11 | In a confidential report he reviewed the properties of steels containing upward of 5 per cent chromium , and concluded that steels containing over 10 per cent chromium should be investigated . |
| 12 | The pumice that we know from painful experience in the bathroom consists of material containing over 65 per cent of silica , and there is a general tendency to associate pumice only with acid rocks such as rhyolites . |
| 13 | There could be no doubt that FGD was practical : it was widely employed in Japan , the USA had 88 units and 40 more under construction some two years earlier , and West Germany had announced plans for a retrofit of 200 power plants and other large boilers in 1983 giving over 80 per cent FGD on power plants by 1988 . |
| 14 | It is a condition of KPMG making the announcement and Offer on the basis described above that the terms of the Offer shall be agreed in advance by the Board of Target and that irrevocable undertakings to accept the Offer , addressed to Client [ and/or KPMG ] , and in a form approved by KPMG , have been received in respect of shares of Target carrying over 50 per cent . |
| 15 | ( 4 ) In the case of an offer which , if accepted in full , would result in the offeror holding shares carrying over 50 per cent of the target 's voting rights , the condition relating to the level of acceptances required ( " the acceptance condition " ) may be set above the minimum required by Rule 10 ( which is over 50 per cent of the target 's voting rights ) . |
| 16 | Martin ( 1988 ) aggregates employment in a wider group of growth sectors and calculates that the South East region 's share of employment is over 41 per cent , with East Anglia and the South West together claiming over 10 per cent more . |
| 17 | Erm and the fact that we 're making over sixty per cent margin i is good business for us in such Okay it 's only twenty K , but potentially longer term when the recovery comes , they 're gon na be |
| 18 | Bush swept to victory in West Virginia and Nebraska , on May 12 , winning over 80 per cent of the vote in each case . |
| 19 | Top-quality diamonds , even small ones , are normally ‘ sourced ’ with a certificate when released to the trade by the Central Selling Organization which dominates the world diamond trade , handling over 85 per cent of stones passing from the mines to the trade . |
| 20 | In its revised form the plan included raising over 40 per cent of the $9,000 million through cuts in government spending , especially in the defence budget . |