Example sentences of "[num] in 10 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thirds thought there was too much violence and six in 10 felt there was too much swearing . |
| 2 | Its credibility suffered : incoming governments often changed its Director-General — it had six in 10 years . |
| 3 | Whereas 1 in 4 marriages were preceded by cohabitation in the 1960s , the corresponding proportion in the 1980s is about 7 in 10 . |
| 4 | Only three in 10 were diet ignorers compared with more than half the men . |
| 5 | It found that more than half of companies now use contract hire compared with only three in 10 during 1991 . |
| 6 | The survey also found that three out of five companies use contract hire because of ease of administration , while , for outright purchase , three in 10 gave this reason . |
| 7 | Three in 10 workers admit to having a ‘ spouse ’ in the office while remaining faithful to husbands or wives at home . |
| 8 | And the large majority of even the 13 and 14 year olds knew they too were under threat even though only three in 10 members of that age group had actually covered the subject in class . |
| 9 | To be sure of their places , however , both may have to improve on their form of last year , Lynch averaging only 21 in 10 matches and Medlycott 's 38 wickets costing 41 . |
| 10 | In 1973 there were 178 nests in 10 colonies ; and there were 179 in 10 colonies in 1976 , when two sites usually holding five to 10 pairs were not visited . |
| 11 | The largest increases have been to women aged 20–24 ; about 4 in 10 of their births were outside marriage in 1989 , more than four times the proportion in 1971 . |
| 12 | Estimates suggest that if divorce rates prevailing in the 1980s continue , then just under 4 in 10 ( 37% ) marriages contracted in the mid 1980s are likely to end in divorce ( Haskey , 1989 ) . |
| 13 | Just under 4 in 10 women aged 65 or over are married and one half are widowed . |
| 14 | In 1988 , 58% of married couples with dependent children were both working as were 4 in 10 married couples with a child under 5 . |
| 15 | Just over 4 in 10 ( 42% ) dependent children in 1987 lived in a household where the head had been out of work for two or more years . |
| 16 | The proportion of one-parent families living in poverty has increased since 1979 when 4 in 10 ( 42 per cent ) were either receiving sb or had incomes below the sb level . |
| 17 | While 4 in 10 one parent families received supplementary benefit during the 1970s , this was 6 in 10 in 1986 . |
| 18 | About 4 in 10 divorced families will be claiming income support . |
| 19 | The proportion of households consisting of a married couple with dependent children is gradually declining ; only about 4 in 10 people actually live in such households . |
| 20 | Eight in 10 women surveyed said that they would use ‘ natural ’ remedies and considered pharmacists as effective as doctors in treating minor ills . |
| 21 | Mr Lumley said parallel trade had become so great that eight in 10 High Street chemists in Britain regularly dispensed drugs made in Britain , exported to France , say , and re-imported for sale to NHS patients . |
| 22 | Eight in 10 people , agreed ‘ people who do n't like watching sex can always switch off ’ . |
| 23 | The difference is particularly marked for cars and telephones ; more than 8 out of 10 two adult households with children have a car or a van compared to only 3 in 10 on adult households with children and whereas 9 in 10 of the two adult households with children have a telephone , this is true for only 6 in 10 of the one adult and children households |
| 24 | For example , at any one time , 1 household in every 3 contains a dependent child , 1 in 5 consists of a person living alone , 1 in 4 is a childless married couple , 3 in 10 are married couples with dependent children , and 1 in 10 contains one or more people over retirement age . |
| 25 | Another estimate puts the figure at $10 billion in 10 years . |
| 26 | While 4 in 10 one parent families received supplementary benefit during the 1970s , this was 6 in 10 in 1986 . |
| 27 | The difference is particularly marked for cars and telephones ; more than 8 out of 10 two adult households with children have a car or a van compared to only 3 in 10 on adult households with children and whereas 9 in 10 of the two adult households with children have a telephone , this is true for only 6 in 10 of the one adult and children households |
| 28 | They are generally younger , on average 25 years and with fewer ( an average of 1.3 ) and younger ( 6 in 10 are under 5 years ) children . |
| 29 | In West Germany , up to one in 10 of the population is said to suffer . |
| 30 | And while the teenage millions may be breathing a sigh of relief at Jason Donovan 's deliverance , the implications of the verdict were greeted with less satisfaction by the homosexual millions — variously estimated at anything from one in 100 to one in 10 of the male population of this country . |