Example sentences of "just [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the drift out of industrial employment was common to all developed countries after 1945 , in Britain in 1975 the ratio of non-industrial to industrial employment was 41 per cent , compared with 32.8 per cent in Germany , 27.9 per cent in the USA , 22.5 per cent in France , and just 4.5 per cent in Japan . |
| 2 | A Department of Employment survey in 1988 of individuals attending courses or receiving job-related training , found that just 4.5 per cent of economically active men aged 50–59 and 1.9 per cent of those aged 60–64 had received some form of course or training in the four weeks prior to the interview . |
| 3 | However , despite an effective campaign , Labour secured just 32 per cent of the vote , leaving the Conservative government with an overall majority of 102 . |
| 4 | After a month in the country which , as Communist Party boss , he controlled for 13 years in the '70s and '80s , his opinion poll rating is 70 per cent , compared with just eight per cent for Mr Gamsakhurdia . |
| 5 | Just eight per cent of homes are rented from private landlords — compared with 45 per cent in West Germany and around 33 per cent in the US . |
| 6 | The fact that Scottish-sourced network TV accounted for just 1.5 per cent of the national output and 0.8 per cent of the radio programming suggested to the task force it seems , that there should have been more money available for commissioning north of the border . |
| 7 | Similarly , broad money is growing at a rate of just 6.1 per cent against 10.9 per cent a year ago . |
| 8 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |
| 9 | In the year to August , sales were just 1.2 per cent above a year ago . |
| 10 | However , at present , they spend only $800 million on population programmes , equivalent to just 1.2 per cent of their total aid budget . |
| 11 | The figures — from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders — takes this year 's new car sales total to 1,406,796 , just 1.8 per cent down on 1991 . |
| 12 | The figures — from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders — takes this year 's new car sales total to 1,406,796 , just 1.8 per cent down on 1991 . |
| 13 | Local NGOs criticised the tiny proportion of the US$167 million funding going to indigenous people , just 1.8 per cent of the total , and called for stricter controls on the use of the funds by Brazilian government agencies . |
| 14 | To date , radio has trailed badly in the UK advertising stakes , taking just 2 per cent of total expenditure . |
| 15 | Even if they did , the breakdown of just 2 per cent of the paper in the cup would give off methane to match the greenhouse warming potential produced by all the pentane gas used to ‘ blow ’ the foam of a polystyrene cup . |
| 16 | Henry McLeish , Labour 's Scottish economics spokesman , said that manufacturing jobs outnumber Scottish unemployment by just 2 per cent . |
| 17 | As the holder of a coveted Swiss resident 's permit , the former premier 's son is taxed at just 12 per cent . |
| 18 | Just 30 per cent give a gift to clients . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Other targets differed by region : in Japan , 89 per cent of respondents named consumers as a key audience , compared to just 43 per cent in Europe and 26 per cent in North America . |
| 21 | As we saw , Murdoch was able to control LWT in 1971 with initially just 7.5 per cent of the voting shares . |
| 22 | Cleveland was bottom of the 107 authorities with just 67 per cent of children making the grade . |
| 23 | By their enormous concentration on defence they raised the issue by just 8 per cent in terms of public priorities and by just 7 per cent in terms of electoral significance . |
| 24 | Yet even the most draconian measures would still have little effect on health-care inflation — because drugs account for just 7 per cent of all spending on patients . |
| 25 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 26 | In the Thames Valley last year the detection rate for car theft was just thirteen per cent , down from 20 per cent two years ago . |
| 27 | Most lone parent families are headed by women ; just 10 per cent are lone fathers . |
| 28 | Most lone parent families are headed by women ; just 10 per cent are lone fathers . |
| 29 | On a typical sage grouse lek , just 10 per cent of the males get over 75 per cent of all matings . |
| 30 | But during the same period the futures price has fallen by just 10 per cent . |