Example sentences of "figure of [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Eyre ( 1987 ) reports , there is considerable variation of opinion relating to rates of deforestation ; FAO ( 1985 ) , for example , quote a figure of 3.0 per cent per year which is assumed to be due to commercial logging . |
| 2 | Real growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) was estimated at less than 2 per cent for the financial year to June 1989 , compared with a target figure of 6.2 per cent . |
| 3 | They achieved a figure of 68 per cent of the children claiming to have seen these films . |
| 4 | While the proportion of other women at work has remained between 40 and 60 per cent , the early decades ( Table 3.5 ) showed 10 per cent or less of married females at work , compared with a recent ( 1988 ) figure of 55.7 per cent who were economically active . |
| 5 | But we do not believe that any bias in the sample would account for the difference between Gooch 's figure of 18 per cent and ours of 3 per cent . |
| 6 | Following the Act 's implementation , the proportion of defendants who were refused bail while awaiting summary trial declined for a time , and even though it rose thereafter , in 1999 it was still 1 per cent below the 1979 figure of 16 per cent . |
| 7 | A very substantial acquisition or reverse takeover is one involving an unlisted target and where the comparison produces a figure of 100 per cent or more . |
| 8 | The plan followed the publication of figures which indicated that gross domestic product ( GDP ) had increased by only 0.9 per cent in 1991 , compared with the projected figure of 4.5 per cent . |
| 9 | Second , the figure of 97 per cent of workplaces with fewer than 20 people , is , in itself , meaningless . |
| 10 | Sweden has recorded an 8.4 per cent fall in industrial production in 1991 , a figure which compares rather badly with the United Kingdom 's latest year-on-year figure of 1.1 per cent . |
| 11 | It arrives at the figure of 47 per cent on the basis of methods used by the European Commission and other European countries . |
| 12 | The estimates contrast with the UK government 's figure of 8 per cent , the main reason for the difference being that the government does not include vulnerable areas unless they are the dominant ecosystem in a standard grid of 100 square kilometres . |
| 13 | This compares with a government figure of 8 per cent . |
| 14 | The figure of 70 per cent left sided speech in non-dextrals accords reasonably well with Levy 's estimate of 63 per cent derived from the lesion data . |
| 15 | It should be noted , however , that the figure of 70 per cent applies only to one particular ( and rather loose ) criterion of non-right handedness . |
| 16 | This compares with the 1987 figure of 3.6 per cent , which rose to 3.9 per cent for both 1989 and 1990 . ’ |
| 17 | From a figure of six per cent in 1973 , the proportion of lawyer chairmen had increased to 36.4 per cent by October 1982 . |
| 18 | The figure of 4 per cent of right handers with right sided speech is almost certainly an over-estimate of the extent of right sided speech among right handers in general . |
| 19 | For example , the often quoted MORI survey ( Baker and Duncan , 1985 ) considered : The interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults about their childhood yielded a figure of 10 per cent who reported being sexually abused . |
| 20 | Acknowledging that yesterday 's inflation figure of 7.6 per cent was ‘ far too high ’ for a Conservative government , she promised it would be brought down again . |
| 21 | His own UK version last year produced a figure of 5 per cent . |
| 22 | Ian Gracie , Wimpey Construction 's director for Scotland , quotes a figure of 45 per cent architectural unemployment . |
| 23 | The government inherited a figure of 5.4 per cent ( 1.2 million ) for unemployment which by November 1983 had reached 12.7 per cent ( 3 million ) . |
| 24 | In 1988 women 's average gross hourly earnings represented 74.9 per cent of men 's earnings , which is slightly down on the peak of 75.5 per cent in 1977 but is an improvement on the 1985 figure of 73.9 per cent . |
| 25 | Market expectations are for little change upwards in the RPI from the latest figure of 7.3 per cent . |
| 26 | One is that the figure of 300 per cent increase in productivity just happens to be that which would have had to occur to cost-justify the installation of CAD given capital and wage costs in the early 1980s in the UK when this figure gained currency . |
| 27 | The economic growth rate was provisionally assessed by the National Statistical Institute ( INSEE ) at the beginning of 1991 at an annual rate of 1.5 per cent , compared with a figure of 2.8 per cent for 1990 . |
| 28 | But the pattern is the same — a figure of 2.7 per cent for the youngest ages , rising to 11.9 per cent for those aged 55-59 . |
| 29 | This group produced a figure of 59 per cent expressing concern at NALGO 's affiliation to the NAC . |
| 30 | was the claim that the right hon. Gentleman made on behalf of his Government in exactly the same week that , in response to a question , I used the figure of 20 per cent . ’ |