Example sentences of "now [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkinson 's Royal Berkshire side went on to beat Raynes Park and now qualify for next Saturday 's final at the Puma Centre in Welwyn . |
| 2 | With little promotional support , cask ale sales are rising and now account for 20 per cent of the total beer market . |
| 3 | In modern Britain , a mere six publishers now account for 80 per cent of all daily , Sunday , and local newspaper sales ( Coxall and Robins , 1989 , p. 312 ) . |
| 4 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 5 | Hence , Britain 's five biggest supermarket groups now account for more than 60 per cent of all grocery sales . |
| 6 | He said that imports through European Community countries now account for half of cocaine seizures , and ‘ the practical reality is we can not afford to have open frontiers with countries like the Netherlands , because the consequence is that drugs in increasing numbers come into our countries . ’ |
| 7 | Between them , Hong Kong , Taiwan and South Korea now account for 6.2% of world trade . |
| 8 | Biocontrol agents , dominated by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis , even now account for only ca 1 per cent of this market . |
| 9 | Lone parents now account for 14% of families with dependent children ( it was 8% in 1971 ) . |
| 10 | In Java , homegardens have increased in extent in the last 50 years and now account for c. 18.5 per cent of agricultural land . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They were both introduced in 1979 and now account for 30 per cent of sales in the US of Z80-type microprocessors . |
| 13 | Trimphones were introduced in the 1960s as an alternative to the conventional type of ‘ phone , and now account for almost 6 per cent of all Britain 's telephones . |
| 14 | More trusts now account for dividend income on an xd basis rather than when the cash is received . |
| 15 | Employment problems now account for more claims than any other factor , according to LPG , who in one recent case picked up a £13,000 legal costs bill for an accountant dismissed by Lambeth Council . |
| 16 | Keeping up appearances at work is paying off — a recent survey has revealed that women now account for 26% of managerial posts — a figure that 's trebled since the late 1970's . |
| 17 | They now account for forty per cent of sales . |
| 18 | Thirteen of the Pacific nations — the US , Canada , Japan , Australia , New Zealand , Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore , Indonesia , Thailand , Brunei and the Philippines — now account for half of the world 's growth . |
| 19 | The company , which made its name with the Microdata Reality version of Pick , running on machines built in-house , has been moving over to software and services , which now account for 58% of total business , and on the hardware side , the company now buys in its machines . |
| 20 | It has won an important contract with Eurodisney and has substantially increased its exports which now account for over three-quarters of its sales . |
| 21 | Revenues generated from repeat business now account for 74% or £5.9m of total Rolfe sales . |
| 22 | Own-label products now account for more than 20% of sales in some European supermarkets ( see chart ) . |
| 23 | Windows-based applications now account for nearly half of all PC-software sales . |
| 24 | Compacts now account for almost all the Dutch market , four-fifths in Sweden and about 30% in Europe overall . |
| 25 | Raima 's appeal is to technical users writing complex applications rather than the packaged market , and Unix sales now account for 20% or so of business in the UK . |
| 26 | Specific grants have increased in importance since 1974 and now account for approximately a quarter of current grants ( excluding the housing benefit scheme ) from central government to local authorities . |
| 27 | The latest crime figures show that burglaries , theft and handling stolen goods now account for more than 90 per cent of the total . |
| 28 | The net result is that enterprises with some form of linkage to the global market now account for the largest part of the global production structure — in raw materials , manufactures and services . |
| 29 | It is noticeable , however , that whereas the G-5 countries now account for 75 per cent of the world 's FDI flow , their position as the five major exporters is a much less concentrated 45 per cent . |
| 30 | Publisher 's themed series now account for a significant part of the market , but are too many thought up by designers and marketing departments rather than horticulturalists ? |