Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [adv] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social security accounts for about a third of total public spending in most western states . |
| 2 | Scotch Whisky accounts for over a third of UK food and drinks exports , and its contribution limited the total food and drink ( F&D ) trade deficit to £4 bn in 1991 . |
| 3 | Groundwater accounts for about a third of the public water supplies in Britain ; in the south and east of England dependence on supplies from groundwater is locally much greater . |
| 4 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |
| 5 | Thus just one granule absorbs at least a 500th of a drop . |