Example sentences of "[verb] for a far [num] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Death during transport and in quarantine account for a further 20 per cent of each batch .
2 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors spokesman Peter Miller called for a further one per cent reduction on the stroke of midnight on New Year 's Eve .
3 The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic .
4 Among the groups that have increased , the largest single cause of the increase was divorce , 60 per cent ; an increase in the numbers of single mothers accounted for a further 34 per cent , lone fathers just over 3 per cent and separated women just under 2 per cent .
5 Direct-grant schools , formally independent but associated with the maintained system , accounted for a further 1.5 per cent .
6 In both cities men of £40-£99 accounted for a further 16–19 per cent .
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