If percentage – use fractions! If not exact – estimate!

	THIRDS			Slightly over / Slightly under // A little more / A little less than / Just over / Just under // More than / less than // In the region of / Roughly // More or less / Exactly // Nearly / approximately near, nearly, roughly, close to 10%, in vicinity of 10%, an estimated 10%, hovered at around 10%,   E.g. approximately half, a little over three quarters, slightly less than three fifths. 5% - a small fraction // 52% - a majority // 48% - a minority // 53% - more than a half // 9% - almost 10% // 34% - approximately a third // 4% - a small fraction //42% - in the region of 40% // 64% - around two thirds // 27% - over a quarter // 77% - more or less three quarters // 10% - exactly one in ten // 18% - nearly a fifth // 30% = nearly a third, 52% = over a half of all respondents//a small fraction//exactly 30% of students//roughly a quarter of
33%	a third / one third
66%	two thirds		TENTHS
		10%	a tenth / one tenth
	QUARTERS	20%	two tenths
25%	a quarter / one quarter	30%	three tenths
50%	a half / one half / half	40%	four tenths
75%	three quarters	50%	a half / one half / half
		60%	six tenths
	FIFTHS	70%	seven tenths
20%	a fifth / one fifth	80%	eight tenths
40%	two fifths	90%	nine tenths
60%	three fifths
80%	four fifths

PREPOSITIONS

DIRECTION	TO: The population level in this city rose to a peak of 6 million.
TIME	ON: on Monday. AT: at noon, at night, at midnight, at 6 pm. IN: in October, in 2007, in spring
PERIODS of time	SINCE:Sales had risen since 2003. FOR: Exports fell for three consecutive years. FROM… TO: from 2003 to 2009 FROM… UNTIL: from 1998 until 2007 DURING: during the first half of this decade WITHIN: Sales had risen to become the highest within the last 10 years.
SPATIAL relationships	ABOVE:Sales in Brazil were always above those of the other countries. BELOW:Sales in Argentina were always below all other countries from 1996 onwards.
POSITION	AT:remained at / peaked at / troughed atIN:in Germany / in all 5 Asian countries OVER: Sales were just over $65,000 UNDER: Sales fell by a little under $27,000
TRANSPORT	ON:on footBY:by car / by bicycle / by plane
AMOUNT	BY:Sales fell by $37,000. / Pollution levels rose by 62,500m3. OF: Japan experienced a decrease of $5 million in exports. TO/FROM: Sales increased to US$35,000 from US$18,000. FROM/TO: Exports fell from $6.3 million to $2.7 million.
Prepositions by and to:	Note how these two sentences mean exactly the same: The rate of unemployment rose to 12% in 2010. (from 7%) // The rate of unemployment rose by 5% in 2010.
Prepositions in and of:	This one is harder. We use “in” to describe changes in things and “of” to describe changes in number or amount. For example, There was a rise in the rate of unemployment // There was a rise of 5% in the rate of unemployment.

SURVEY useful sentence starters:

1. 90% of the respondents stated that… 2. The majority of both sexes were shown to have / be…

3. 25% of women questioned felt that… 4. Almost one third of women over 45 replied that…

5. None of the respondents had / were… 6. 16% of the women surveyed had / were…

7. The majority of the women in the survey… 8. None of the respondents held the view that…

9. The majority of both sexes who took part in the research said that… 10. All age groups for both men and women considered___ to be…

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