Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For children born in the late 1950s and early 1960s this could have accounted for perhaps 5% of cases ; as Gardner et al showed it does not explain the increased incidence in Seascale . |
| 2 | In 1991/92 , spirits accounted for 35% of all excise duties on alcoholic drinks , which totalled £5bn , but for only 24% of consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks . |
| 3 | Nuclear power accounted for only 1% of demand in 1983 yet there is no lack of enthusiasm for its development . |
| 4 | Modern paintings accounted for only 15% of Drouot 's business in 1992 and only twenty-five paintings , old or new , sold for more than FFr1 million . |
| 5 | Manufacturing accounts for only 15% of GDP , compared with 20% in Finland and Sweden . |
| 6 | Last year , the businesses earmarked for ICI Bio accounted for only 34% of group turnover , but generated 69% of trading profits ; pharmaceuticals alone were responsible for 12% of sales and 52% of trading profit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Finding that a third of the track and half the stations accounted for only 2% of traffic , he began a drastic programme of closures . |
| 9 | At P&G , where 25% of its 2,300 brand varieties account for only 2% of sales , old brands like Puritan cooking oil and White Cloud toilet paper are being scrapped . |
| 10 | Even so , the Japanese government 's Fair Trade Commission reckons that the average firm even within the former zaibatsu relies on other group members for only 13% of purchases and 15% of sales . |
| 11 | In theory it would be possible to significantly reduce the incidence of Down 's Syndrome , remembering that women aged 38 years or over account for only 3% of births , but 23% of Down 's births . |
| 12 | Women aged over 38 years account for only 3% of mothers , but carry 23% of all Down 's babies . |
| 13 | With oil consumption in the Middle East accounting for only 3% of world demand , or 15% of home production this region remains the world 's major energy exporter as well as being OPEC 's power base , through Saudi Arabia , Iran , Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 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 | It plans to boost public investment again , but this is unlikely to make much difference : public investment accounts for only 7% of GNP . |
| 16 | That is , for approximately 85% of words for which alternatives were available , the correct word was selected by the analyser . |
| 17 | Blair et al reported that circulating gastrin accounted for approximately 90% of acid secretion in response to eating . |
| 18 | IBM Japan Ltd reported net profit for 1992 down 44.8% to the equivalent of $268m ; turnover slipped 1.6% to $10,750m ; the company says service business including systems integration showed double-digit growth from the previous year but that hardware sales turned in a double-digit drop ; ‘ We are still in the midst of changing course to become a service company , ’ the company said — ‘ Along with the severe state of the economy , that resulted in lower sales and profits ; ’ systems integration , accounting for just 8% of sales , grew by 40% and IBM Japan plans to increase staff there by half this year ; hardware sales accounted for 53% of the total , but the ratio could reverse this year ; the company plans to cut operating costs per employee by about 10% , further reducing headquarters staff by a quarter , reducing the number of top executives by a quarter and slashing executive bonuses in half . |
| 19 | IBM , which markets the Stratus line as its System/88 series , says sales of the boxes dipped by 56% in the third quarter , and accounted for just 7% of Stratus ' revenues for the same quarter . |
| 20 | According to a recent report from the Consumers Association , a dose of only 3g of iron is enough to kill a toddler , yet few vitamin and mineral supplements are sold in child-resistant packs , so it 's vital to keep them out of the reach of children . |
| 21 | It has been estimated by the CBI that in the period 1979–91 an average of only 40% of firms were working at full capacity . |
| 22 | First , if the economy in general and industry in particular are operating substantially below capacity , how can the existence of a current account deficit of approximately 2% of GDP be explained ? |
| 23 | SCIAF 's director , Duncan MacLaren , who leaves for Somalia today , said the campaign was the most ambitious undertaken by the charity , following on from its pledging of nearly £500,000 of relief to eight African countries . |
| 24 | ( Price 1979 quotes a figure of nearly 73% of papers receiving only one citation . |
| 25 | Had the conservatives prevailed completely , there could have been a reconciliation with Rome after the death of both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in 1536 , when the occasion of the dispute was thus ended . |
| 26 | Infants suffering these events are more likely to be anaemic , and its correction has been reported to reduce the frequency and severity of both apnoea of prematurity and cyanotic breath holding . |
| 27 | What Lanham describes as ‘ perpetual immanent metamorphosis ’ comes in Verbivore to infect the coherence of both point of view and plot structure . |
| 28 | The usual coiled electrical flexible cable consists of about 5m of cable , with a plug on one end and the socket mounted on a reel at the other end . |
| 29 | The Norwegian cattle breeding system has resulted in a national herd average of about 6400kg of milk , with the best herds averaging over 10,000kg , and some individual cows reaching 15,000kg . |
| 30 | Alpharetta , Georgia-based Digital Communications Associates Inc has now completed its acquisition of Computer Logics Ltd for about $8m cash and repayment of about $4m of shareholder debt ; an earn-out agreement means that the total price can rise to as much as $12m . |