Example sentences of "in [art] top [adj] per " in BNC.
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1 | In other words , the supposedly modest Sun is in the top 5 per cent of all stars in the Galaxy . |
2 | Is in the top 5 per cent of UK managers , but has n't the faintest idea how good she is . |
3 | Last year he took part in the London race along with 27,000 others , being placed in the top six per cent at number 1,442 . |
4 | ‘ In the top five per cent of his class , so he tells me . ’ |
5 | That would place him in the top 1/2 per cent of intelligence for this country . |
6 | The criteria for inclusion are complicated , but basically the doctors were looking for men in the top 10 per cent of overall risk . |
7 | The comprehensive schools , in a perfectly adjusted system , should have had 20 per cent of their pupils in the top 20 per cent of the ability range : in fact , they had only 15 per cent and one-quarter of the schools had less than 5 per cent . |
8 | The South does n't stand out in the resulting map ( figure 5.2 ) , although none of the States of the former Confederacy falls in the top 40 per cent on their ranking , except Florida whose population character and structure has changed very substantially in recent decades as a result of immigration , especially of the elderly . |