Example sentences of "just under [num] per cent " in BNC.

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1 Half of the theses were cited in the Science Citation Index , with just under thirty per cent of these being self-citations .
2 We had 15 per cent interest rates , inflation just under 11 per cent .
3 Food and housing are still the two biggest bills but spending on eating has dropped from 33 per cent of the weekly budget in 1957 to just under 18 per cent .
4 The small number of observations and the biased nature of the sample did not produce average betas of unity and the effect on the overall portfolio risk was less dramatic , the lowest being 15 per cent for one of the 27-share portfolios and the highest being just under 26 per cent for one of the 2 share portfolios .
5 Almost thirty per cent of the the population are employers , managers or white collar workers with just under six per cent unskilled labourers .
6 each ; immigration just under 1 per cent .
7 The latest official evidence shows that just under 70 per cent of adults with a disability — 4.2 million people — are over the age of 60 , compared with 25 per cent of the general population .
8 Ethnic Georgians , who constituted just under 70 per cent of the republic 's population , were assumed to have voted almost unanimously in favour .
9 But in the two most acute categories of learning difficulties , severe and profound , these children were found to be over-represented by more than 300 per cent and just under 200 per cent respectively compared to native English speakers .
10 But in the two most acute categories of learning difficulties , severe and profound , these children were found to be over-represented by more than 300 per cent and just under 200 per cent respectively compared to native English speakers .
11 In an £8m programme AMI is doubling the resources in its psychiatric division , which accounted for just under 5 per cent of group sales last year .
12 Gross national product ( GNP ) grew by an average of just under 5 per cent in 1989 and 1990 , while the annual rate of inflation fell to below 3 per cent by the end of 1990 .
13 The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) .
14 DEMOS took just under 55 per cent of the vote in the Socio-Political Chamber elections , which according to a proportional representation system gave it 47 of the 80 seats .
15 The overall turnout was around 60 per cent compared with 76 per cent in 1986 , and an average in past elections of just under 80 per cent .
16 It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 per cent where they stood .
17 After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ?
18 By 1988 there were almost 300,000 , just under 10 per cent of the estimated population of Lebanon .
19 Between 1950 and the early 1970s the sector grew by just under 10 per cent and the increase was mainly made up of financial and commercial services .
20 Inflation was a major concern during 1990 , running at just under 10 per cent .
21 Under the system of proportional representation used in the 1986 election , his party managed to win 35 parliamentary seats with just under 10 per cent of the vote .
22 TVMM will have just under 8 per cent and Charles Romaine , the sales director of HTV , said TVMM would be willing to take on any other groups to bring that total closer to 25 per cent .
23 After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ?
24 just under 40 per cent admitted that weigh gain was the worst problem created by their sugar cravings
25 However , the biennial consideration of High Court Interlocutory fees produced an uprating of just under ten per cent over two years .
26 Tesco make just under seven per cent .
27 Between 1929 and 1936 unemployment averaged 16.9 per cent across Great Britain , but it ranged from 7.8 per cent in the South-east to 30.1 per cent for Wales , 22.7 per cent for the North-east and just under 22 per cent for Scotland and the North-west .
28 The Liberal Democrats were averaging just under 19 per cent — a fall of about four per cent on the level of the Liberal-SDP Alliance in 1987 .
29 Ostensibly agriculture has a fine record — between 1961 and 1973 labour productivity bounded along at over 7 per cent per annum , though overall growth of output at just under 3 per cent was less impressive [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] .
30 Haussmann confirmed the buoyant state of the West German economy , with around 413,000 more in employment in 1989 than in 1988 and a moderate rate of inflation of just under 3 per cent per annum .
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