Example sentences of "to over [num] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference in success rates was marked , no success rate for decimals exceeding 15 per cent , and those for whole numbers ranging from 50 per cent to over 80 per cent . |
| 2 | In Spain , unemployment rose from 2.1 per cent in 1972 to over 17 per cent in 1982 . |
| 3 | As a result , in the sixty years from 1851 the proportion of old people living in institutions almost doubled , rising to over 7 per cent of men over 65 and nearly 10 per cent of those over 75 , and slightly over half this figure for women . |
| 4 | On Nov. 25 the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) supported the former view , but cut its forecasts for economic growth in 1992 from September 's projection of 3 per cent to between 2 and 2.5 per cent and predicted that unemployment would rise slightly to over 7 per cent . |
| 5 | Although the currency was strong ( despite a revaluation in 1969 ) and the budget in surplus , wage demands were also high and inflation rose from 2 per cent in 1969 to over 5 per cent in 1972 . |
| 6 | It may appear surprising that three parts in the valve have been found to have no function at all and that they amount to over 5 per cent of the total cost . |
| 7 | It may appear surprising that three parts in the valve have been found to have no function at all and that they amount to over 5 per cent of the total cost . |
| 8 | Taking data on all full-time manual workers , figure 10.2 shows that the ratio of women 's hourly pay to men 's suddenly rose in the mid-1970s from the level it seems to have previously held over recorded history , 60 per cent , to over 70 per cent in 1977 , a level more or less maintained subsequently . |
| 9 | By contrast , West Bromwich , Manchester , London and Liverpool all sustained losses amounting to over 10 per cent of their work force . |
| 10 | Today it has risen to over 40 per cent in Britain , Scandinavia , and North America , and 30 per cent in France , in contrast to less than 7 per cent in China and Japan . |
| 11 | The addition of occupational pension rights to an estimate of the share of wealth owned by the poorest 80 per cent of the population in 1972 raises the figure from 10 per cent to 20 per cent , and including state-pension rights doubles this again to over 40 per cent . |
| 12 | Between 1950 and 1975 the female proportion of the working population rose from 33 per cent ( which it had been since the 1890s ) to over 40 per cent ( Hunt , 1975 ) . |
| 13 | For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | The two most conspicuous features are the large holdings of UK securities , amounting to over 40 per cent of total assets and to about 60 per cent when combined with overseas securities . |
| 15 | At present , only 7 per cent by volume of freight goes by rail ( compared to over 40 per cent in the 1950s ) . |
| 16 | As to the discounts , these appear to range in generosity from 5 per cent to over 60 per cent . |
| 17 | This was in spite of the fact that the Glass Glover acquisition and last week 's £48.8 million purchase of Clifford Foods would help push gearing to over 60 per cent by the year end in March . |
| 18 | Yet , despite an increase of spending on health in the UK from 3¼ per cent of national income in 1948 to over 6 per cent ( of a much larger national income ) forty years later , it is alleged that the NHS is underfunded and periodically in a state of near collapse . |
| 19 | In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 . |
| 20 | This growth and industrial expansion of Belfast , and a corresponding famine in the south , facilitated a dramatic rise in the city 's Catholic population ( from 6 per cent in 1800 to over 30 per cent in 1861 ) . |
| 21 | These imports reached on average over 10 million koku a year in the late 1920s , equivalent to over 15 per cent of annual domestic production . |
| 22 | Inflation in December was 59.6 per cent , bringing the annual rate to over 2,500 per cent . |
| 23 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 24 | A recent study by the North London Polytechnic shows that about 27 per cent of men have been victims of some unwanted sexual contact before they are 18 , compared to over 50 per cent for women . |
| 25 | The coup attempt followed a prolonged period of economic recession within Trinidad and Tobago , which saw gross national product ( GNP ) fall by more than 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 and unemployment rise to over 22 per cent . |
| 26 | The 12.9 per cent illiteracy rate in 1981 was admitted to have risen to over 20 per cent by the late 1980s . |
| 27 | For example , the Hospice des Enfants-Trouvés in Paris , founded 1670 , was admitting several thousand babies a year by the 1770s , equivalent to over 20 per cent of the yearly baptisms in Paris , although almost half came from outside the city , and 13 per cent into the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Corby ( Northants ) , for example , received a zone after the closure of the British Steel plant , and an associated rise to over 25 per cent in male unemployment . |
| 29 | Between 1975 and 1980 the share of firms employing less than 300 workers in total bankruptcy debts rose from 75 to over 90 per cent . |
| 30 | The four acute hospitals studied also varied in the extent to which they were dependent on business from their own district , from 20 per cent in a teaching hospital which had a large range of supraregional specialities and dealt with over 120 districts , to over 90 per cent in a rural district general hospital . |