Example sentences of "cent [prep] [art] women " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 80 per cent of the women who take maternity leave at Shell return to work and the proportion is higher in senior jobs . |
| 2 | About 30 per cent of the women I 've met through our training courses are certainly in this position . |
| 3 | Forty per cent of the women attending a Dow-Stoker Returners programme decide to come back to work because of a trauma . |
| 4 | Analysis indicated that only 50 per cent of the women could comply with the mobility requirement compared with 65 per cent of the men . |
| 5 | Washing up is next in the ‘ dislike ’ section of the table : taking first responses together with later ones , seventy per cent of the women describe a negative attitude . |
| 6 | Eighty per cent of the women who said ‘ yes ’ to the monotony question are dissatisfied with housework , compared with forty per cent of those who said ‘ no ’ . |
| 7 | Demographers look on surveys of family intentions with mixed feelings , although according to one analysis 80 per cent of the women married in 1959 achieved their intended family size ( Barrett and Brass 1974 ) . |
| 8 | Extrapolating from the known dates of birth , it is possible that as many as 75 per cent of the women employed in 1910 were then aged between 14 and 23 , the remaining 25 per cent being between 24 and 43 or older . |
| 9 | 72 per cent of the women said they would like to consume less sugar |
| 10 | Over 90 per cent of the women in the sample felt that tax rates did not influence their work behaviour , with the remainder being about equally divided between the other two options . |
| 11 | Probably about 70 per cent of the women were in there because of drugs — a phenomenal proportion . |
| 12 | Furthermore , only 20 per cent of the women were getting more than £5 per week in non-state pension income , as compared with 50 per cent of the men . |
| 13 | Only 7 per cent of the women were getting more than £25 , though 26 per cent of the men were reaching this level . |
| 14 | Seventy-five per cent of the women questioned admire the ability of working mothers to juggle their lives . |
| 15 | As Table 4.6 shows , 32 per cent of male SERC students were looking for work at the end of their courses : 47 per cent of the women were in this position . |
| 16 | In several African countries in which marriage or first union takes place comparatively earlier in life , one half of the women bore their first child before reaching age 19 ; in Bangladesh , 50 per cent of the women had at least one child when they were 16.5 years old . |
| 17 | In Bangladesh , for instance , the birth rate in one village went up after the pill was introduced : because it both interfered with lactation ( 90 per cent of the users were lactating mothers — and lactation is known to help prevent ovulation ) , and was abandoned by 80 per cent of the women because of side effects . |
| 18 | By 1851 its population had soared to 69,542 and the cotton trade provided work for 32 per cent of adult males and 28 per cent of the women . |
| 19 | This compared with 26 per cent of the women without an intimate tie with husband or boyfriend , but who reported a confiding relationship with another person ( seen at least weekly ) , and with 41 per cent of those who had a confidante seen less than weekly or who had no such relationship at all . |
| 20 | In fact , over 80 per cent of the women with hysterical or sociopathic disorders had , as children , lived away from both natural parents at some time , and over a third of the men diagnosed in adulthood as schizophrenic had been taken into care during childhood . |