Example sentences of "[vb base] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today US-registered vessels make up only one-third of the fleet , and account for less than 16 per cent of the total number of dolphin deaths . |
| 2 | Yet foreign banks still account for less than 3% of Italian banking assets . |
| 3 | More than 40 per cent of the world population lives in China , India , Eastern Europe and South America , which account for less than 10 per cent of our sales today . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , LIFFE still trades derivatives in US T-bonds and eurodollars , but these account for less than 5 per cent of the exchange 's total business . |
| 5 | The national brewers account for more than 90 per cent of total lager production . |
| 6 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 7 | The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists . |
| 8 | Hence , Britain 's five biggest supermarket groups now account for more than 60 per cent of all grocery sales . |
| 9 | While exchanges will show the fastest growth at 18% , commercial banks and capital markets still account for more than 75% of total spend . |
| 10 | Own-label products now account for more than 20% of sales in some European supermarkets ( see chart ) . |
| 11 | The latest crime figures show that burglaries , theft and handling stolen goods now account for more than 90 per cent of the total . |
| 12 | Will my right Hon. Friend confirm that the authority 's detailed proposals will be published before the summer , and will those proposals include advertising campaigns on tobacco and alcohol abuse , which account for more than 100,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom ? |
| 13 | Grain Whisky : United Distillers ' grain whisky distilleries account for more than one third of total industry production . |
| 14 | With sterling now at a considerably lower rate against the Deutschmark , French franc , the currencies of the Benelux countries and the dollar , which together account for more than 50 per cent of Scotland 's export trade , the impact will be significant . |
| 15 | Young people from working-class backgrounds , for instance , are more likely to spend time with a boy/girl-friend whereas young people from G middle-class backgrounds continue to move around in mixed sex groups for a longer period , perhaps anticipating an extended period of dependence on parents as they head for further or higher education . |
| 16 | I do n't know what we want for tonight but we might go down my sister 's this afternoon so we want something easy for when we come back . |
| 17 | Yet they count for little when balanced against his blindness to the cultural ferment which was agitating educated Germany by the later decades of his reign and his ignorant contempt for most of the greatest German writers and scholars of the age . |
| 18 | But also there you can ministers because minis er churches they count for more than two years stop being central funds and therefore , if we had too many |
| 19 | The inquiry , which started two weeks ago , is due to continue in Northallerton until June 19 , break for more than two weeks and reconvene at Marton , Middlesbrough , on July 7 . |
| 20 | And look for long and , like one of Cézanne 's views of the Mediterranean , the water seems as much a vertical blue screen as a horizontal lake . |
| 21 | Orders from other market segments remained firm with demand patterns clear for more than two years , he said . |
| 22 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
| 23 | The Commission 's draft Directive proposes that laws on the minimum wage and paid holidays in the country where a worker is being contracted out should apply solely to workers whose assignments last for more than three months . |
| 24 | If you can possibly afford it , opt for more than one bedroom . |
| 25 | If we now divide by the total concentration and substitute for then or |
| 26 | We rode the bus back , and buses take for ever and are full of drunks and screaming children … |
| 27 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 28 | Many interviewers , however , work for more than one company , which makes it hard for any individual company to implement standards different from the rest . |
| 29 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
| 30 | Make- up artists are brought in to transform the faces of these girls ; their hands are slapped away from beige foundation , and the sleek colours of Chanel bring the glow of affluent youth to faces that have for more than twenty years caused most men to avert their gazes in dismay . |