Example sentences of "for almost [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC1 accounted for almost 39pc of viewing in the last quarter of 1990 , but that figure had dropped to 34pc a year later . |
| 2 | Between them , the two account for almost 90% of Italy 's television audience . |
| 3 | This figure accounts for almost 5% of Grampian 's total exports , and is significantly higher than the national figure of 2% . |
| 4 | This general picture of IS demand is confirmed by records kept in the school library , which show children referred to the school library in IS lessons between November 1983 and July 1984 to account for almost 80% of the referrals logged . |
| 5 | Function words take up only 4% of the vocabulary , or about 30% if weighted by frequency , yet they are accountable for almost 50% of the errors . ’ |
| 6 | The banking and finance sector has grown more than 20 times in real terms over the past 30 years so that it now accounts for almost 20% of GDP , compared with 5% in 1960 . |
| 7 | Responses were received from 109 companies that , in total , account for almost 70% of the total R&D expenditure reported by companies in the 1992 R&D scoreboard . |