Example sentences of "that [adv] 40 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence of the 1949 Royal Commission on Population on the use of birth control techniques , recognised to be inadequate on the matter , suggests that only 40 per cent of women married between 1910 and 1919 used some form of birth control at some time in their marriage compared with 66 per cent of those married between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 2 | Birthplace data from the 1841 census onwards show that only 40 per cent of those aged over 20 ( the only people for whom data are available ) had been born in the town they lived in . |
| 3 | A survey in a Southwark Salvation Army hostel in 1987 found that nearly 40 per cent of men who had recently moved in had symptoms which pointed to a diagnosis of schizophrenia . |
| 4 | Reddy says that about 40 per cent of that reduction came from improving efficiency . |
| 5 | When these figures are compared with the amounts of net personal income paid in the same period , it can be seen ( column ( 4 ) ) that about 40 per cent of net personal income in these three regions was financed out of net dissaving ( or losses ) . |
| 6 | When the 1971 Census asked a question about employment status , it found that about 40 per cent more people regarded themselves as unemployed than the official statistics showed . |
| 7 | ( 1982 ) estimate that about 40 per cent of all carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere remains there to enhance the greenhouse effect . |
| 8 | Du Plessis announced that about 40 per cent of the budget would go on social services , with health education receiving substantial increases . |
| 9 | Du Plessis announced that about 40 per cent of the budget would go on social services [ see p. 37568 ] . |
| 10 | The board 's inspectors said that about 40 per cent of incidents of pollution recorded there are due to contamination by silage effluent or slurry . |
| 11 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 12 | The police report that over 40 per cent of burglaries of urban dwellings are break-ins to basement flats . |
| 13 | Notice that over 40 per cent of those people unemployed on the day of the count had been without work for over a year . |