Example sentences of "for [adv] 30 per [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 2 | Car crime , principally by young males , accounts for nearly 30 per cent . |
| 3 | The survey found that Wadworths , Youngs , Fullers , Marstons and Adnams among the regionals had all done particularly well from the provision , accounting together for nearly 30 per cent . |
| 4 | This accounts for about 30 per cent of all deaths from cancer ; the second largest source of cancer mortality is lung cancer for men ( 33 per cent of all deaths ) and breast cancer for women ( 20 per cent ) of all cancer deaths . |
| 5 | The advance in age at marriage , and in its popularity , accounted for about 30 per cent of the increase in annual fertility rates from the 1930s to the 1950s which comprised the ‘ baby boom ’ . |
| 6 | The Audit Commission focused on the 20 most common operations , which account for about 30 per cent . |
| 7 | Food products account for about 30 per cent of Third World manufacturing output and more of employment ( Fath , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Low mortgage rates — a £30,000 flat can be bought for about 30 per cent less than it can be rented — has undoubtedly triggered off a renewal in confidence . ’ |
| 9 | In the period 1965–83 , encouraged by tax incentives , 470 cattle ranches with an average size of 23 000 ha were established in Amazonia which , according to Repetto ( 1988a ) , accounted for c. 30 per cent of the total deforestation apparent from remotely sensed data collected between 1973 and 1983 . |
| 10 | Also , UK-based artists have been regularly responsible for over 30 per cent of the world 's record business . |