Example sentences of "account for a much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chart 15 , from Karen Wruck at the Harvard Business School , shows part of the answer why : in a highly leveraged firm , default is triggered by the inability to meet payments to claimants accounting for a much larger proportion of the firm 's value than in a firm with more equity ; and the loss to creditors of failing to agree on new terms is thus potentially bigger . |
| 2 | Statistically the chemical industry is responsible for just a fraction of dioxin ‘ production ’ from combustion with domestic fires accounting for a much larger chunk . |
| 3 | The fall in investment was so large that it was , by a considerable margin , the most important cause of the decline in aggregate demand , even though it accounts for a much smaller fraction of demand than consumer spending . |
| 4 | For spirits , cross-border trade within the Community accounts for a much higher proportion of production than is the case for wines and beers ( Figure 5.2 ) and is dominated by the UK which accounts for 51% of all intra-EC trade in spirits ( Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 5 | But as well as having a novel structure , the theory has an explanatory power quite unlike that of classical economics : for while the latter attempted to explain economic systems as a response to individual needs , Marx accounted for a much wider range of social phenomena in terms of the part they played in a totality . |
| 6 | Bank loans and , particularly , credit cards may account for a much greater volume of spending than the total debt outstanding on them might suggest . |
| 7 | Very little food was imported up to World War I , and even after 1918 imports of foodstuffs accounted for a much smaller proportion of total imports than in some other industrial nations , particularly Britain . |