Example sentences of "account for [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publication details major financial losses and fatalities caused by minor events and provides a prescription for reducing these losses , which account for many millions of working days lost each year . |
| 2 | Detailed profit and loss account for last three years |
| 3 | Major constituents account for ninety nine point nine percent of the material dissolved . |
| 4 | Market loans account for some 26 per cent of banks ' sterling assets and are thus a major source of liquidity to individual banks . |
| 5 | Investigation revealed the sale of at least 63 works in the past six months ; yesterday a source close to Charles Saatchi was prepared to concede that the volume of sales was higher than previously stated , and that the works disposed of account for some 10 to 12 per cent of the collection , which suggests a true figure of between 70 and 100 individual sales . |
| 6 | Patients with suspected iron deficiency anaemia account for some four per cent of the patients referred to our gastroenterology clinic . |
| 7 | The figures suggest that some 1200 excess cases of leukaemia may have been caused in Britain by the Windscale accident , since leukaemia deaths account for some 15 per cent of cancers attributable to nuclear accidents , the total toll of cancer deaths suggested is 8000 . |
| 8 | Most patients with effortful , poorly articulated speech will have ungrammatical speech output with good speech comprehension , but not all — any two of these symptoms can exist without the third , so one can not offer a single theory accounting for all three symptoms at once . |
| 9 | The fish harvested in the Eastern Mediterranean totalled 135 000 tonnes in 1964 , the last year in which floodwater reached the sea unimpeded , with sardines accounting for 15 000 tonnes . |
| 10 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 11 | Agriculture contributed 11 per cent of GDP , with tobacco ( the main cash crop and export ) , sugar , maize , beef and cotton accounting for some two-thirds of the sector 's production . |
| 12 | As well as the qualitative benefits brought about by greater accuracy and timeliness of information , the efficiency of the system meant that it was possible for the integration of the personnel records and wages departments to be achieved with a 40 per cent reduction in staff , natural wastage and redeployment within the organisation accounting for some 20 individuals . |
| 13 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 14 | The chemical firm Du Pont was the leading polluter , accounting for 343.6 million pounds , and the state of Texas absorbed the most pollutants , 799.7 million pounds . |
| 15 | Asia accounts for 666 million illiterates , three-quarters of the world 's total . |
| 16 | At the risk of indelicacy , one would suggest that such a condition usually accounts for some five or six days of inactivity . |
| 17 | For the entire period it accounts for some 70 per cent of the year-to-year variation in the rate of change of aggregate union membership . |
| 18 | A report by the Compassion in World Farming ( CIWF ) group on fish farming in Britain--a growth industry which now accounts for some 10 per cent of the country 's total fish consumption--has highlighted some of the practices associated with raising fish in captivity . |
| 19 | It currently accounts for some 10 per cent of ozone loss , but this proportion is likely to rise to 16 per cent if present trends continue , despite the fact that at a meeting of Montreal Protocol signatories last November , it was agreed to freeze use at present levels [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 20 | It accounts for some 8.5 per cent of all take-home lager sales and is also sold in draught . |
| 21 | Certainly its application within the large domestic market of the United States , which alone accounts for some 40 per cent of world air travel , can hardly be considered an unqualified success . |
| 22 | Economic studies of cleaning , however , have shown that manual labour accounts for some 89 per cent of energy costs which themselves account for as much as 96 per cent of the total cleaning bill . |
| 23 | The American firm accounts for some 60 per cent of the world 's annual sales of computers and has a turnover around $30000 million . |
| 24 | Zilog accounts for another 40 per cent of sales and the rest is made up of Z80s manufactured under licence from Zilog by companies like Mostek , SGS and Sharp . |
| 25 | Marriage breakdown accounts for three fifths of increase in one parent families |
| 26 | The government has also failed to account for many hundreds who ‘ disappeared ’ in custody after an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1977 . |
| 27 | So that 's variance of reproductive er success and I mentioned I think last week , I anyway , the most extreme examples of this which is elephant seals where in once again a similar population to this , a closely studied population in California , five percent of the males were found to account for ninety five percent of the offspring in one season . |
| 28 | But the works of Lloyd Webber himself continued to account for some 85 per cent of the group 's earnings . |
| 29 | Indeed variations in profitability were found to account for some three-quarters of the variations in capital stock during this period ( European Economy , 1991 ) . |
| 30 | Livestock is estimated to account for some 15 per cent of global emissions of methane — one of the leading greenhouse gases . |