Example sentences of "account [prep] [det] than [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to reduce the ranks of the young unemployed who now account for more than half the nation 's two million jobless and to give them an added skill which will help them find work when the training is over . |
| 2 | In the last 15 years there has been an enormous increase in the volume of frozen chips being consumed , even although straight-cut chips for frying still account for more than half the chips bought . |
| 3 | The plan is to create a market of 190m people , accounting for more than half the GDP of Latin America and the Caribbean . |
| 4 | Thus quantified , the environmental cost of oil comes to 5.56p per kilowatt-hour ( kWh ) , with corrosion and damage to buildings accounting for more than half the total and damage to crops from pollution for just under a fifth ; " old " coal burned in conventional power stations without emission controls has a cost of 5.00p/kWh ; " new " coal 1.18p/kWh ; combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations 0.45p/kWh ; nuclear pressurized-water reactors ( PWR ) between 0.32p and 0.37p/kWh ( not including effects on plants and animals ) ; and solar , wind and hydroelectric power between 0.04 and 0.07p/kWh ( not including visual impact or disruption caused by construction of dams , etc ) . |
| 5 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |
| 6 | The energy exporters are likely to account for more than half the growth in demand to the year 2000 and their share of consumption will increase to almost 50% . |
| 7 | It accounted for more than half the structures at Chalton but at Bishopstone , where the extent of erosion was even greater and the excavation not total , there is less evidence of such planning although traces of fence lines attached to buildings were located . |
| 8 | The number has increased gradually from 1,087,000 in 1968 , though natural increase ( excess of births over death ) accounted for more than half the rise in 1979-1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 9 | Geoffrey Hillcoat , Durham County Council group traffic manager for road safety , said incidents in Darlington accounted for more than half the total cycling accidents in County Durham last year . |
| 10 | 5 No subdivision of the X -axis should account for more than half the range of the X -values found in the data . |
| 11 | The water issues accounted for more than half the business on the heaviest days trading since January . |
| 12 | In 1982 crude oil accounted for more than half the total cost of imports . |
| 13 | Trade union-sponsored MPs , who in the 1935 Parliament had accounted for more than half the party , were now less than a third of the total . |
| 14 | In 1987 the Long Gilt future accounted for more than half the trades on LIFFE but , while still trading strongly , it had been relegated to third place by 1990 , having been outstripped by both the new German Government bond ( " Bund " ) contract and the Short Sterling contract in importance . |