Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adv] [art] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Consider financial services , for example , which already account for nearly a third of GDP . |
2 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
3 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
4 | These account for around a fifth of live births in this group of handicaps , but due to the limited life-expectancy , they are not present in the community . |
5 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
6 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
7 | Voluntary schools in England account for about a third of primary schools and a fifth of secondary schools ( see Figure 6.9 ) . |
8 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
9 | With the naked eye , or with binoculars , it is possible to distinguish between two stars which differ by only a tenth of a magnitude . |
10 | Now we come to probably the last of the Bishops to use Halling Palace . |