Example sentences of "account [prep] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , retail sales account for only 40 per cent of consumer spending . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Unmarried mothers — of all ages — account for only one third of the total number . |
| 4 | Joint ventures account for only a small part of Hungary 's company start-up boom . |
| 5 | LTOM has failed to entice private clients , who account for only 20% of its business but are the lifeblood of options markets overseas . |
| 6 | Until now Japan has been the rich world 's youngster : people 65 and over still account for only 11.5% of the population . |
| 7 | Biocontrol agents , dominated by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis , even now account for only ca 1 per cent of this market . |
| 8 | Women aged over 38 years account for only 3% of mothers , but carry 23% of all Down 's babies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since these two countries account for only 1.2% of the HLCA expenditure in the EEC , the UK 's position is anomalous . |
| 11 | Political polls account for only six per cent of the research industry 's business , but they are its most visible — and accountable — manifestation . |
| 12 | The railways account for only 7.5% of passenger travel in Britain ; their share of the freight market is 8% . |
| 13 | According to Dr Mobius , over 75% of the world 's population lives in such countries , which currently account for only 11% of the world 's GNP and less than 5% of the capitalisation of the world equity markets . |
| 14 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 15 | American and European paintings , prints and sculptures , account for only a fraction of the museum 's 100,000 objects which range from American Indian material , African art , and musical instruments , to Nabataen sculpture from Jordan , Egyptian and classical antiquities , Asian art , costumes , and 300 American , English and Continental portrait miniatures . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As fans of shortening point out , bills account for only one-quarter of the marketable debt , down from a third a decade ago . |
| 18 | Is it not the pride of the industry that although sales in Britain account for only 8% of the world total , British recordings account for 22% ? |
| 19 | In Jersey City , where non-Hispanic whites account for only 35% of the population , a 34-year-old Wall Street anti-tax whizz-kid runs for mayor against the local machine . |
| 20 | Pupils from ethnic minorities account for only 4 per cent of the school roll . |
| 21 | The 20 to 30 per cent discounts offered by the superstores account for only around half of the US/UK price differential . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Fixed contract workers , on the other hand , are predominantly men : women account for only 37 per cent . |
| 24 | Mature medical students ( defined as over 23 ) account for only 2% of the medical school population . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | While this represents an important development in Parliament 's powers of scrutiny , non-departmental bodies account for only a small part of the work of these committees which are quite unable to exercise anything like detailed oversight . |
| 27 | Although anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide account for only half of the total global emission , they tend to be very concentrated . |
| 28 | However , the particles in even the most opaque Cytherean clouds account for only a tiny fraction of the atmospheric volume occupied by the cloud , and therefore the cloud particles , as on the Earth , are minor atmospheric components . |
| 29 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
| 30 | We believe that book clubs and other mail order outlets account for only about 10% of the total sales of the books which are the cause of concern . |