Example sentences of "accounting for [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most patients with effortful , poorly articulated speech will have ungrammatical speech output with good speech comprehension , but not all — any two of these symptoms can exist without the third , so one can not offer a single theory accounting for all three symptoms at once . |
| 2 | The fish harvested in the Eastern Mediterranean totalled 135 000 tonnes in 1964 , the last year in which floodwater reached the sea unimpeded , with sardines accounting for 15 000 tonnes . |
| 3 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 4 | Agriculture contributed 11 per cent of GDP , with tobacco ( the main cash crop and export ) , sugar , maize , beef and cotton accounting for some two-thirds of the sector 's production . |
| 5 | As well as the qualitative benefits brought about by greater accuracy and timeliness of information , the efficiency of the system meant that it was possible for the integration of the personnel records and wages departments to be achieved with a 40 per cent reduction in staff , natural wastage and redeployment within the organisation accounting for some 20 individuals . |
| 6 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 7 | The chemical firm Du Pont was the leading polluter , accounting for 343.6 million pounds , and the state of Texas absorbed the most pollutants , 799.7 million pounds . |