Example sentences of "about 40% [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 About 40% of the potentially farmable sea water identified by the White Fish Authority in the whole of the United Kingdom is in the Western Isles .
2 The four major energy importers , Argentina , Brazil , Chile and Colombia , will account for about 40% of the growth in energy demand to the end of the century .
3 Novon already takes about 40% of the store 's sales of compact powders .
4 At high gain , about 40% of the reflections were flagged as saturated and were discarded , while at low gain , weak reflections ( 3 standard deviations ) were discarded as unreliable .
5 Sparcsystems were on display from a number of vendors : Ace K Computer is the sales arm of MicroHelios Ltd of Osaka , which recently announced a Sparcstation 10-compatible machine under the name HelioStation 1000 — this adds to its current Sparc-based Heliostation 400 series and both machines are imported and sold under an agreement with Axil Technology Inc , of San Jose , California , a relatively new player in the compatible market ; the prices are about 40% of the Nippon Sun retail price and the company looks to sell 1,500 of the things annually .
6 In the absence of NCp7 , IN cleaved about 40% of the DNA template ( lane 1 ) while approximately 75% of the 28-mer was cleaved in the presence of 1.2 ng of NCp7 ( lane 5 ) .
7 If Mercury consists of a largely iron core and a largely silicate mantle , then the core would account for about 80% of the mass and about 40% of the volume , which would make Mercury richer in iron than any other planet .
8 Readers fixate a high proportion ( over 80% ) of the content words in a text compared to only about 40% of the function words .
9 The differentiation between Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and duodenal ulcer is impossible by measurement of pepsinogen C , while a low pepsinogen A:C ratio is found in about 40% of the duodenal ulcer patients and in none of the Zollinger-Ellison patients .
10 They can go to work for Skillbase , and we guarantee minimum 90 days a year work for about 40% of the previous base pay . ’
11 Despite the limitations of a retrospective study and the heterogeneity of the tissue available for review , the present findings show that over 80% of antral tumours were associated with H pylori in the 1960s although this fell to about 40% in the 1980s .
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