Example sentences of "and over [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the 1989 AMERG survey asked specifically whether the ending of the mandatory scale had led to reductions of fees charged for individual projects and over 68 per cent of respondents stated that it had . |
| 2 | Graduates of Oxford and Cambridge predominated , and over 70 per cent of all masters had themselves attended HMC ( Headmasters ' Conference ) schools . |
| 3 | If fluid from the prostate and a specimen of the ejaculate are also examined , however , the diagnosis rate increases markedly , and over 70 per cent of male contacts were shown to be harbouring the organism in one series where these exhaustive tests were carried out . |
| 4 | Data from the Labour Force Survey for the late 1980s indicate that around a half of Afro-Caribbean households and over 70 per cent of Pakistani and Bangladeshi households contained children , compared with around one-third of white households ( Haskey , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | In time of war , the men and women of the Territorial Army make up about one-third of the Army , providing more than half the infantry needed in BAOR and over sixty per cent of the Army 's medical services . |
| 6 | With over 60 per cent of households owning a VCR and virtually 50 per cent with at least two TV sets ; with 11 channels available via BSkyB 's Astra satellite , and over 10 per cent household penetration ; and video film rentals running at over 500 million per year ; the use made of a fairly stable total screen time per viewer is becoming progressively more diffuse . |
| 7 | Similarly , on the eve of the Reformation , over 90 per cent of testators in three of the archdeaconries of the diocese of Lincoln were leaving bequests to cathedrals , and over 80 per cent to parish churches . |
| 8 | All chairmen were social class I , the majority of employers ' representatives were social class II and over 80 per cent of employees ' representatives fell within social classes II and III ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 9 | At present , FOE allege , only 2.6 per cent of domestic waste is recycled , and over 80 per cent of local authorities have no plans to introduce kerbside collection schemes — seen as essential to give the necessary boost to recycling . |
| 10 | Flexible working is now ubiquitous — 88 per cent of all operators report flexibility within grades and over 80 per cent across grades . |
| 11 | In Berlin in 1885 81 per cent of men engaged in food supply , 83–5 per cent of builders , and over 85 per cent of those in transport had been born outside the city . |
| 12 | A combination of cars and aircraft provided over 80 per cent of passenger transport in Western Europe and over 95 per cent in the United States . |
| 13 | They can calculate all too clearly that the average value of sterling has fallen 17.5 per cent , ( and over 25 per cent against the dollar ) since September , and the price of fuel and raw materials for industry has so far risen by just over 10 per cent , while retail prices have actually fallen . |
| 14 | For those aged 75 and over 20 per cent of men and 16 per cent of women reported an in-patient stay in hospital in the previous year . |
| 15 | Eight per cent of women aged 18 — 49 were cohabiting in 1988 , and over 20 per cent of those had never been married ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Tass reported in June that 20 per cent of electric power would be nuclear-generated by 1995 and over 30 per cent by 2000 ( compared with 11 per cent in 1989 ) . |
| 17 | In 1987 it won 27 per cent of the Birzeit student vote , 85 per cent of the Hebron University vote , and over 40 per cent of the vote at al Najah , where the threat of violence between secular and religious students provoked the voluntary closure of the university until feelings had sufficiently abated . |
| 18 | In Khartoum and the Northern region , the vast majority of children get to primary school , and over 40 per cent of sixteen-to eighteen-year-olds are at secondary school . |
| 19 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 20 | Indirect evidence from the 1911 census suggests that about 20 per cent of married women born in 1831–45 ( and therefore marrying from the mid-1850s onwards ) and over 40 per cent of those born 1861–70 were controlling their fertility ( Matras 1965 ) . |
| 21 | Half of those making this statement thought they would use it for experimentation and over 40 per cent for information handling . |
| 22 | Borrowing financed 31 per cent of spending in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1702 – 13 ) and over 40 per cent of that in the American war ( 1776 – 83 ) . |
| 23 | Of the population aged 65 years and over 60 per cent are female ( see Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Britain 's private sector service industries earned almost £32 billion from exports in 1991 and accounted for 57 per cent of GDP and over 60 per cent of employment ’ , the survey said . |
| 25 | Note , however , that over three-quarters of those who watched ITV news at any time had also watched BBC-TV news on the same day ; and over 90 per cent of those who watched ITV news regularly also watched BBC-TV news regularly . |