Example sentences of "just over 50 per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCAW 'S revised offer for just over 50 per cent of LIN Broadcasting is cleverly structured . |
| 2 | Midland has currently made provisions against just over 50 per cent of its South American debt exposure , in line with Bank of England guidelines . |
| 3 | Back to our examples : it would be ‘ an act of vandalism ’ to weaken the top 20 arts clients , from Covent Garden down , who snaffle just over 50 per cent of all Arts Council and regional cash , while London and the south-east swallow 57 per cent of all funds . |
| 4 | Small scale studies indicate that households of this type are quite common , for example , for people of Pakistani origin living in Britain ( Anwar , 1985 ) and this is reflected in official statistics by evidence about the overall size of households : in 1985 , whilst less than one in ten white households contained more than four people , where people classified themselves as Pakistani , or Bangladeshi , just over 50 per cent of households were of that size ( Social Trends 1987 , p. 45 , table 2. 9 ) . |
| 5 | The test yielded a mean score of just over 50 per cent for all pupils participating . |
| 6 | This was just over 50 per cent above February 1990 , and five per cent more than in January . |
| 7 | of applicants were refused community care grant and just over 50 per cent . |
| 8 | Presidential and legislative elections were held in November 1989 , when Callejas was elected with just over 50 per cent of the vote , and the PN won 71 of the 128 seats in the National Assembly [ see pp. 37038-39 ; 37275 ] . |
| 9 | Officials of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) observed that central government had contributed just over 50 per cent to the cost of the Games , while the flying of the Catalan flag and the use of Catalan as one of the four official languages of the Games had been agreed at the outset . |
| 10 | This would constitute an improvement of just over 50 per cent on the original return on the investment in XYZ Ltd . |
| 11 | The Glasgow distiller , owned by the mighty American Brands , only needs to advance its 41.3 per cent stake to just over 50 per cent . |