Example sentences of "account for only [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Table 2.5 shows , some 70 per cent of agency workers are in eight narrowly defined occupations — systems analysts and programmers , nurses , draughtsmen , clerks , secretaries and receptionists , office machine operators , telephonists , and bus and lorry drivers — which account for only 18 per cent of total employment . |
| 2 | Political polls account for only six per cent of the research industry 's business , but they are its most visible — and accountable — manifestation . |
| 3 | Pupils from ethnic minorities account for only 4 per cent of the school roll . |
| 4 | According to Wang Yangzu , deputy director of the agency , these businesses account for only 4 per cent of polluters but are responsible for over 60 per cent of the total industrial pollution caused . |
| 5 | Rawsthorne points out that Lawrence is more about sexuality than specific acts of sex which account for only two or three sections of the 600-page novel . |
| 6 | Unmarried mothers — of all ages — account for only one third of the total number . |
| 7 | Women account for only one in four junior managers and at senior management this drops to one or two per hundred . |
| 8 | ‘ Although these groups presently account for only 7 per cent of Aids cases in the UK they represent a reservoir from which the spread into the general heterosexual population can occur . |
| 9 | Fixed contract workers , on the other hand , are predominantly men : women account for only 37 per cent . |
| 10 | Departments have also generally found it easier to establish objectives for administrative costs ( which account for only 13 per cent of departmental expenditure ) than for programme costs ( 87 per cent of departmental expenditure and , therefore , offering potentially much greater scope for savings ) ( Public Accounts Committee , 1986–7c , para. 30 ) . |
| 11 | However , retail sales account for only 40 per cent of consumer spending . |
| 12 | As fans of shortening point out , bills account for only one-quarter of the marketable debt , down from a third a decade ago . |
| 13 | British-made goods were hit particularly hard , accounting for only 1,815,670 of the 2,863,302 articles hallmarked — a drop of 14.1 per cent . |
| 14 | The citation only of India , ranked 27th in US overseas markets and with a bilateral trade surplus of $850,000,000 , accounting for only 1 per cent of the US deficit , was seen by most observers as evidence that the administration was anxious not to create ill feeling which might jeopardize the " Uruguay Round " of the multinational trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 15 | Such a move is opposed by the Serbs , who , although accounting for only one third of Bosnia 's population , have laid claim to more than two thirds of the republic 's territory . |
| 16 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 17 | Photo-Me 's identity card venture is still at an embryonic stage , accounting for only 2 ½%; of turnover . |
| 18 | The first act accounts for only one third of the two-and-a-quarter-hour running time , and details the series of intrigues whereby Diocletian ( John Straiton ) , a common legionary , ascends to the position of Caesar following the murder of his predecessor , Aurelius . |
| 19 | Pentland Crown accounts for only two per cent of the commercial market , but is still popular with gardeners because of its hardiness and resistance to disease . |
| 20 | The best fitting second order polynomial accounts for only 0.056 percent of the variance in this case , no improvement on the fit given by a straight line ( r(46)=0.24 ) . |
| 21 | At present local taxation accounts for only 14 per cent . |
| 22 | It now accounts for only 20 to 25 per cent . |
| 23 | Even when the results of Studies 2 and 3 are combined the best fitting quadratic function accounts for only 0.096 percent of the total variance across these 60 points , scarcely an improvement on the 0.043 percent obtained from the simple linear correlation coefficient . |
| 24 | Although the Sinhalese were the largest ethnic group in the city of Colombo , in 1911 they accounted for only forty-four per cent of the municipality 's population . |
| 25 | In the 1960s , the under-twenties accounted for only 5 or 6 per cent of total unemployment : in April 1985 , the figure was 15.6 per cent and this was not untypical of the early 1980s . |
| 26 | To take just one more example , the central urban township of Sheffield accounted for only one-twentieth of the 22,370-acre parish which stretched from the industrial villages of Attercliffe and Darnall in the east to isolated farms in the west . |
| 27 | This suggests that migration 's role in swelling the South 's labour force is restricted to non-manual workers , for whom the South provided 61 per cent of the movers ' destinations , while it accounted for only 52 per cent of points of departure . |
| 28 | The latter , although they accounted for only one in ten ( 11.5% ) of all issues , accounted for half ( 49.8% ) of all items in need of repair . |
| 29 | Equally important in setting the force apart was the strong representation of Malays , who accounted for only 0.3 per cent of the population , but for nearly one-third of policemen . |
| 30 | Work by Chris Gordon on elderly people surveyed by the New Survey of London Life and Labour in 1929–31 showed that only 7.3 per cent of the 2,286 elderly people in his sample were in receipt of any direct financial support from their family , and this accounted for only 2 per cent of the overall income of this elderly population ( as shown in Table 3.1 ) . |