Example sentences of "account for nearly [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the very important increase last year , which focused especially on the needs of those in nursing homes in the light of the survey information that we had received , the increase next April will give an additional £15 a week across virtually all the main categories and with an even larger increase , of £20 a week for two residential care categories — the very dependent elderly and the mentally handicapped — which together account for nearly two fifths of all residential care cases on income support . |
| 2 | Together they account for nearly two-thirds of the entire temporary labour force but rather under half of total employment . |
| 3 | Unleaded petrol sales in the United Kingdom currently account for nearly 44 per cent . |
| 4 | In terms of sheer size they are sometimes bigger than the countries in which they operate ; they are estimated to control over a quarter of world output ; and their ‘ inter-firm ’ shipments of goods from one country to another account for nearly one-third of recorded trade ’ . |
| 5 | In terms of numbers of banks the USA is the most heavily represented country , but in terms of market share the Japanese now account for nearly one-third of the market . |
| 6 | Vehicle emissions have been calculated as accounting for nearly 80 per cent of Mexico City 's pollution . |
| 7 | Participants in the Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) make up the largest share of these , accounting for nearly nine per cent of all temporary workers , and participants in the Community Programme ( CP ) together with a small number in the Community Industry programme make up almost all the remainder , accounting for just over four per cent . |
| 8 | According to an IAEA report in January 1990 , the total number of operating nuclear electricity plants worldwide stood at 435 , accounting for nearly 17 per cent of the world 's total electricity production . |
| 9 | All the while public expenditure was rising with direct and transfer payments together accounting for nearly 50 per cent of GDP by the mid 1970s . |
| 10 | According to Sedjo ( 1987 ) , the USA is the world 's largest producer of industrial wood , accounting for nearly one-quarter of global production . |
| 11 | The major element of investment trusts ' asset portfolios is ordinary shares , with UK and overseas ordinary equities accounting for nearly 90 per cent of total assets net of short-term liabilities . |
| 12 | THE biggest domestic culprit for wasting water is the toilet cistern , which accounts for nearly one third of household consumption . |
| 13 | The single occupational group of secretaries and receptionists itself accounts for nearly one in four of all such workers . |
| 14 | Car crime , principally by young males , accounts for nearly 30 per cent . |
| 15 | At that time they accounted for nearly two thirds of our production . |
| 16 | They accounted for nearly one-third of the £20 billion lost through absenteeism . |
| 17 | A large proportion of this increase was also accounted for by the new offence of failing to send children to school , which in 1920 accounted for nearly one-quarter of all criminal cases . |
| 18 | In 1986 this accounted for nearly 12 per cent of revenue raised by expenditure taxes and 4 per cent of total government revenue ( see Godfrey and Maynard 1988 ) . |
| 19 | Redundancies , which accounted for 37 per cent of job losses , dismissals , which accounted for nearly 15 per cent , and voluntary resignations , which accounted for another 37 per cent , were all more important . |
| 20 | Work and associated routine interactions accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total . |
| 21 | Textiles alone accounted for nearly one-quarter of the total . |
| 22 | The result is that in 1981 the cores and rings together accounted for nearly 9 out of 10 of the British population . |