Sentence examples for under fifty per cent from inspiring English sources

Even in Highland, home to the fiery army that defeated the English at the Battle of Bannockburn, in the fourteenth century, the "yes" vote was under fifty per cent.

If he could be kept under fifty per cent, though, his Presidential hopes, such as they are, would vanish in a Christie-style traffic jam — which would be fine with the W.F.P., which barely tolerates Cuomo as governor and has no desire to see him nominated for President.

Lumina seeks to drive the rate of college completion in the United States from its current level of just under forty per cent to sixty per cent.

After all, in the second quarter of the year the Gross Domestic Product had expanded at an annualized rate of almost three per cent — and the unemployment rate was under six per cent.

The payroll figure came in at 171,000, and the unemployment rate stayed under eight per cent.

Louisiana is another state where President Obama's approval rating is under forty per cent.

By 1966, it had fallen to just under fifteen per cent.

In the "least developed countries," as denoted by the report, Internet penetration remains under ten per cent.

That's consistent with the evidence from national polls taken since last Friday, which have shown Trump polling at just under forty per cent.

Two months later, an updated filing disclosed the existence of an investment by a sovereign wealth fund, the State Investment Company of China; it agreed to pay $3 billion for a non-voting stake of just under ten per cent.

Since the beginning of the crisis, the U.S. has borrowed more than five trillion dollars, and the interest rate on the ten-year Treasury bills is under two per cent.