Example sentences of "about [num] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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1 | The mean or average amount was nearly 8 a month or about 0.76 per cent of average earnings . |
2 | Does the Chancellor recognise that his optimism about 2.25 per cent . |
3 | This represents an elastic strain or interatomic separation of about 1.0 per cent , perhaps between a tenth and a twentieth of the theoretical strength . |
4 | That should , it was suggested , reduce the likelihood of any problems by about fifty per cent . |
5 | It has a permanent stock of about 10,000 pipes of wines and ships about fifty per cent of the island 's wine exports . |
6 | If everyone had one of these , the crime rate would drop by about fifty per cent . ’ |
7 | This means that , whereas previously about fifty per cent of a museum 's budget would go on staff costs , next year almost the entire budget — over ninety per cent — will go on wages and staff costs . |
8 | Altogether some hundred and sixty thousand tons of vegetables and fruit leave Cavaillon every year , about fifty per cent by rail , the rest by road . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
11 | By 1989 , the transaction systems had grown to about fifty per cent of the total . |
12 | About fifty per cent had two or more . |
13 | Forty eight per cent is about fifty per cent , what 's fifty per cent as a fraction ? |
14 | I would say we 've lost about fifty per cent but we 're putting on a promotion to try and get people in |
15 | This week IBM unveiled plans to shed another 10,000 employees — about 4.5 per cent of its US workforce — saving $1billion a year and it will buy back another $4billion-worth of its own shares . |
16 | Altogether , United 's brands account for about 4.5 per cent of all beer and 15 per cent of lager sales . |
17 | Government economists predicted that the economy would experience a slight dampening in overall performance during fiscal 1989 ( partly due to the imposition of the 3 per cent GCT ) and forecast a GDP growth rate of about 4.5 per cent . |
18 | That 's round about thirty-seven per cent , in n it , somewhere around there . |
19 | It is estimated that about 75 per cent of the union 's members in Hackney and Tower Hamlets voted in the ballot , supported officially by NUT national leaders . |
20 | The success rate for liver transplants in children is about 75 per cent . |
21 | Bell Group is about 75 per cent owned by Bond Corp . |
22 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |
23 | International cargo carriage now accounts for about 75 per cent of airfreight movements . |
24 | Today it is about 75 per cent Palestinian . |
25 | According to Alliance Internationale de Tourisme the private car now carries about 75 per cent of all travellers . |
26 | The Wellcome Trust owns about 75 per cent of Wellcome and intends to reduce this shareholding to less than 50 per cent . |
27 | The evidence for this is derived from reported clinical and autopsy data in which macrovascular disease accounts for about 75 per cent of all deaths in diabetics , compared to approximately 50 per cent in the non-diabetic population ( Ganda , 1980 ) . |
28 | Magnox reactors produce plutonium containing about 75 per cent of plutonium 239 isotope ; AGRs 50–60 per cent ; and PWRs ( like the proposed Sizewell B ) 57 per cent . |
29 | Pharmaceutical and health-care firms are popular with the government because they reinvest about 75 per cent of their Irish-generated profits in the Republic . |
30 | Your aim should be to let the candidate do about 75 per cent of the talking . |