Example sentences of "of nearly [num] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many middle-class Republicans voted Democrat , and Edwards benefited from a black turn-out of nearly 80 per cent , an unprecedented level in a state election . |
| 2 | But with inflation down to 3.7 per cent you are now getting a real return of nearly 4 per cent on your money . |
| 3 | Velocity had fallen to 2.2 , an annual rate of decline of nearly 5 per cent . |
| 4 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 5 | A majority of nearly 55 per cent voted against Pinochet , and in the resulting presidential elections held on Dec. 14 , 1989 [ see p. 37117 ] , Patricio Aylwin Azócar of the Christian Democratic Party ( Partido Demócrata Cristiano — PDC ) , who was also the representative of the 17-party Coalition for Democracy ( Concertación de los Partidos por la Democracia — CPD ) , was the clear winner with 53.8 per cent of the vote . |
| 6 | The SNP needs a swing of nearly 9 per cent but the polls show the Nationalists gaining ground in Scotland and Labour and the Liberals — who accounted for more than a quarter of the vote in Galloway last time — are likely to be squeezed . |
| 7 | Faced now with an AOC budget for 1993 of £24 million — a cumulative increase in charges of nearly twenty per cent per annum — we can see no relationship between this figure and the rate of inflation over the ten year period , or with the numbers of operators ( 21 in 1983 , 246 currently ) or aircraft involved ’ . |
| 8 | In the years between 1982 and 1988 the economy grew at an average of nearly 3 per cent per year . |
| 9 | In forecasts issued in 1991 , the IMF had predicted growth of nearly 3 per cent in 1992 . |
| 10 | It predicted a growth of nearly 3 per cent in the UK population by 2002 , but there would be an overall decline in the numbers aged under 30 counterbalanced by ‘ dramatic growth ’ in the 30-59 age group . |
| 11 | With 500 share sorters working round the clock , however , small investors could see their allocation rise to a ceiling of nearly 50 per cent if the issue is 2.25 times oversubscribed . |
| 12 | With 500 share sorters working round the clock , however , small investors could see their allocation rise to a ceiling of nearly 50 per cent if the issue is 2.25 times oversubscribed . |
| 13 | Interviews and observations carried out during a long-term follow-up study in fifty classrooms revealed that the classroom practice of nearly 50 per cent of the respondents had not changed in any perceptible way as a result of their attendance at such courses . |
| 14 | The decline in world interest rates , the slight improvement in commodity prices and the relative weakness of the dollar ( the unit in which nearly all debts were denominated ) meant that the total burden of interest and capital payments now represented about 26 per cent of total export revenues for the 20 most severely indebted middle-income countries which between them accounted for 44 per cent of world debt ; this compared with a debt service ratio of nearly 50 per cent in 1983 . |
| 15 | Cabra , in which Bates has a stake of nearly 30 per cent , may settle for less than the £22.8 million if it takes into account other shareholders in its subsidiary company SB Properties , which owns the football ground . |
| 16 | Wang also announced an increase of nearly 12 per cent in military spending for 1991 , the second increase in two years , saying that the extra money was needed for the modernization of weapons and equipment . |
| 17 | The diet of a gorilla consists of nearly 90 per cent foliage , while chimpanzees eat mainly fruit ( Box 2 ) Dr John Eisenberg and Dr Don Wilson , working at the National Zoo at Washington DC have shown a similar relationship between diet and relative brain size in bats : fruit eaters such as flying foxes and fruit bats ) have larger brains relative to their body size than their insectivorous relatives ( such as horseshoe bats ) . |
| 18 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 19 | Johns ( 1985 ) , for example , has examined the impact of logging in part of west Malaysia where the harvest consisted of 3.3 per cent of the trees per ha but which , by damaging saplings and soils , caused an overall loss of nearly 51 per cent of the trees . |
| 20 | The Warners deal reportedly also includes a royalty rate of nearly 20 per cent and generous funding for developing Madonna projects on the big and small screen . |
| 21 | The dominating influence of meteorological conditions on the ozone trend is highlighted by trends in emissions of VOCs ( involved in the formation of ozone ) since these emissions show a decrease of nearly 20 per cent during the 1980s . |
| 22 | In the same period , civil legal aid has moved from £15.7 million to £16.5 million , a fall of nearly 20 per cent in real terms . |
| 23 | ; whereas from the end of the first half of 1979 to the third quarter of 1991 , there has been an increase of nearly 6 per cent . |
| 24 | By the end of the reign total land revenue came to about £100,000 , a rise of nearly 25 per cent , compared with a price rise of about 75 per cent . |
| 25 | It is estimated that the number of people aged between sixteen and nineteen will fall by over 850,000 between 1987 and 1995 — a reduction of nearly 25 per cent . |
| 26 | I have already told the House that the export performance of United Kingdom industry has been extremely good , with an increase of nearly 25 per cent . |