Example sentences of "10% of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Widdicombe Committee found that ‘ about 16% of … councillors who are in employment , and about 10% of all councillors , are employees of other local authorities , the majority of these being teachers ’ ( Widdicombe 1986 : 11 1 ) . |
| 2 | In-depth research indicates that alcohol is a contributory factor in 10% of all accidents in Britain , deaths arising from excess alcohol accidents are more frequent that deaths arising from other acts of violence , such as homicide or acts of terrorism . |
| 3 | In this study , the usage rates for the lobon-gur solution were found to be poor , ( corroborating the findings of the programme monitors mentioned above ) ; less than 10% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with oral rehydration therapy . |
| 4 | Cytomegalovirus was associated with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in only two of the present patients in whom cryptosporidiosis was not also implicated and in less than a third overall ; these represent less than 10% of all cases of cytomegalovirus enteritis seen during the study period . |
| 5 | According to the 1986 English House Condition Survey , households 75+ only make up 10% of all households , but they occupy almost a third of dwellings lacking basic amenities and 16% of unfit dwellings . |
| 6 | For mothers >=35; the corresponding proportions were 5/270 ( 2% ) , 26/296 ( 9% ) , and 51/320 ( 16% ) ( 1% , 5% , and 10% of all diagnoses in older women ) . |
| 7 | 10% of all vehicles in New Zealand are NGVs , while US legislation enforcing the adoption of cleaner alternative fuels has resulted in many government departments converting their fleets to run on natural gas . |
| 8 | This was suggested by the NOAH team ( Smith & Sambur 1980 ) who found that short function words , which made up only 1% of their lexicon accounted for 30% of errorful hypotheses and only 10% of correct ones . |
| 9 | This output measure suggests that there are factors operating in these departments which are very different from those operating in Durham , Oxford , Birmingham , Wales , and Cambridge , all of which have produced less than 10% of Unproductive researchers . |
| 10 | This output measure suggests that there are factors operating in these departments which are very different from those operating in Durham , Oxford , Birmingham , Wales , and Cambridge , all of which have produced less than 10% of Unproductive researchers . |
| 11 | In 1979 , the General Household Survey found that 10% of nonmarried women were cohabiting . |
| 12 | Roughly 10% of black Americans were found to have the mildly defective A glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variant , more severe B variants occurring around the Mediterranean and in South East Asia . |
| 13 | Passions gradually subsided in Little Rock , and elsewhere , but the progress of school integration remained very slow : 10 years later only about 10% of black children in the South attended desegregated schools . |
| 14 | More bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb . |
| 15 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Very small schools ( 50 children or less ) accounted , in 1987–8 , for around 10% of primary schools in the United Kingdom , but the proportion varied greatly from region to region . |
| 17 | Where 10% of pregnant women are HIV positive , the under five mortality rate for AIDS alone will be equal to the under five child mortality rate from all causes in industrialised countries . |
| 18 | A quarter of non-executives believed they should have the last word on mergers ( 10% of chief executives agreed ) and a fifth ( compared with 3% of the bosses ) thought they should approve major borrowings and loans . |
| 19 | As figure 1 illustrates the Chemicals sector now represents 10% of total exports and has shown a 15% increase from £722.9 million in 1989 to £833.3 million in 1990 . |
| 20 | The reader can confirm from Table 5.1 that 10% of such trials would result in an imbalance of at least 20:10 after 30 patients . |
| 21 | In 1931 , 10% of married women were economically active ( either in paid employment or unemployed ) . |
| 22 | Smurfit took 10% of both classes . |
| 23 | A 1979 survey by Malcolm Smith of ‘ Book selection sources ’ reported that publishers ' information was used for selection purposes by 10% of public libraries , 22% of specialized libraries , and 35 % of academic libraries . |
| 24 | A further consideration is that some variables such as occupation , industry and educational qualifications were only coded for 10% of non-imputed households . |
| 25 | If I had used mail order for the larger items I could have easily shaved off a further 10% of these costs and come well within my allotted amount . |
| 26 | The broadcasters were able to enliven their reports by incorporating actuality clips from the Chamber in about one-third of their parliamentary news stories , and these clips averaged between 25 and 77 seconds in duration , depending on the programme , which usually comprised about a quarter of the story ( exceptionally , BBC2 's Newsnight had longer stories , averaging eight minutes , and its average actuality length of 49.5 seconds comprised only 10% of these items ) . |
| 27 | In addition Listeria also infects 12% of pre-cooked chickens , 16% of salami-type sausages , 50% of raw pork sausages and 10% of soft cheeses . |
| 28 | The one similarity between local elections in Britain and the United States is the turnout : it is very low , in some instances as low as 10% of eligible electors . |
| 29 | At present about 30% of District General Hospitals in the United Kingdom provide such programmes , but the extent and quality of these programmes is still very variable ; probably less than 10% of eligible patients overall are offered their facilities . |
| 30 | More recently Shaw et al have sequenced exons 5 , 6 , and 7 of the p53 gene in 19 polyps without finding any mutations whereas Baker et al reported point mutations in 10% of 19 adenomas retaining both p53 alleles . |