Example sentences of "accounts for [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Venezuela 's five year plan for 1984–1989 the profile of debt payments allows for annual growth of 2.5 — 5.5% but whether this can be achieved is highly dependent on oil prices and quotas since oil accounts for over 90% of exports . |
| 2 | Since oil still accounts for over 25% of foreign exchange earnings and some 65% of total revenue the effect of the past five years has been almost cataclysmic . |
| 3 | Poland accounts for nearly 50% of Eastern Europe 's production while the GDR and Czechoslovakia are both major producers . |
| 4 | Domestic demand for fuel is an important subject as regards both the economy in aggregate and the welfare of individual households : the domestic sector accounts for nearly 30% of total final energy use in the UK . |
| 5 | An efficient port transport system is vital to Britain 's economy as trade accounts for nearly 60% of national income and over 90% of all imports and exports pass through the nations ports . |
| 6 | Three years ago , 90% of BBC 's business was on MS-DOS platforms , 10% on Unix : that 's all changed now and the company says MS-DOS now accounts for just 20% of its revenues . |
| 7 | The S&P500 index , which covers most of the largest 500 firms quoted on the NYSE , accounts for roughly 80% of the market value of all shares quoted on the NYSE . |
| 8 | Manufacturing accounts for only 15% of GDP , compared with 20% in Finland and Sweden . |
| 9 | For an industry which , as Frans Andriessen , the External Affairs Commissioner , has pointed out , accounts for only 5% of EC exports compared to the 25% of the population in industrial work and the even larger percentage in financial services , agriculture is absurdly mollycoddled . |
| 10 | But coal accounts for only 19% of Soviet energy production . |
| 11 | Home shopping as a whole accounts for only 3% of retail spending . |
| 12 | It plans to boost public investment again , but this is unlikely to make much difference : public investment accounts for only 7% of GNP . |
| 13 | Most previous research on economic restructuring has focused on job loss and geographical shifts in investment in manufacturing industry , but manufacturing accounts for only 26% of all employment today and the Thanet area provides an opportunity to examine restructuring processes in an area dominated by the services sector . |
| 14 | ISAM-XA , an X/Open-compliant resource manager for those wishing to access transaction processing monitors from data held in indexed sequential file systems — despite all the noise , relational still accounts for only 10% of data — is held to be the brightest hope for the future . |
| 15 | The banking and finance sector has grown more than 20 times in real terms over the past 30 years so that it now accounts for almost 20% of GDP , compared with 5% in 1960 . |
| 16 | This figure accounts for almost 5% of Grampian 's total exports , and is significantly higher than the national figure of 2% . |
| 17 | Household waste accounts for perhaps 4% of the total waste produced in Britain . |
| 18 | It calculated that the difference between a good school and a bad one accounts for about 20% of the variation in children 's progress ( between the ages of seven and 11 ) in reading , writing and mathematics . |
| 19 | The surface of Mercury , broadly speaking , can be divided into two types of terrain , heavily cratered terrain , which accounts for about 80% of the imaged hemisphere , and smooth plains , which accounts for the remainder . |
| 20 | Europe presently accounts for about 45% of the company 's sales . |
| 21 | According to data collated from International Data Corp , Dataquest and CMP Market Research for 1992 , the dynamic data visualisation tools market accounts for about 49% of the workstation graphical user interface market but is growing at less than 10% a year . |