Example sentences of "for [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Household waste accounts for perhaps 4% of the total waste produced in Britain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The 600dpi printer will provide adequate quality setting for perhaps 60% of all typeset documents — according to the same American report — and many magazines and journals are created in just this way . |
| 4 | Our findings reveal for the first time death rates of babies born before term who survive into late adult life , although duration of gestation was recorded for only half of the men . |
| 5 | Although anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide account for only half of the total global emission , they tend to be very concentrated . |
| 6 | But coal accounts for only 19% of Soviet energy production . |
| 7 | At that stage , the tigers accounted for only 19% of the money flowing into these countries . |
| 8 | At one moment we shall be talking in terms of billions of years and billions of light years ; at the next we shall focus on events that are of importance for only billionths of a second involving particles so small that it is misleading to think of them as material objects . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But Mr Fallon has criticised the county for only budgeting for a five per cent salary increase . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Much of the capital 's road space is used for only part of the day . |
| 13 | In most countries , groundwater flows from aquifers throughout the year but rainfall replenishes them for only part of the time . |
| 14 | Expenditure on education was affected by the same influence , although this accounts for only part of the large decline in its share from 1979 to 1983 . |
| 15 | Gresham chairman Sid Green professed himself ‘ modestly satisfied ’ with the company 's pre-tax profit of £767,000 on sales of £7.25m — last year 's sales were £6.29m but the two companies had been combined for only part of the accounting period . |
| 16 | I have priced the beards and can offer them for only £237.99 plus VAT each . |
| 17 | BBC Good Food readers can obtain this mould for only £16.50 inc p+p . |
| 18 | Nuclear power accounted for only 1% of demand in 1983 yet there is no lack of enthusiasm for its development . |
| 19 | Buy his new Tiger Portrait video for just £14.99 post free , or the video plus his Square Drawing Pack ( RRP £5.95 ) for only £17.95 post free . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To the question , ‘ Do you use headhunters regularly or on specific occasions only ? ’ , respondents admitting regular usage accounted for only 15% of the companies surveyed . |
| 22 | Britain 's exports to the EC account for only 15% of its GDP . |
| 23 | Manufacturing accounts for only 15% of GDP , compared with 20% in Finland and Sweden . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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% ? |
| 26 | LTOM has failed to entice private clients , who account for only 20% of its business but are the lifeblood of options markets overseas . |
| 27 | SCO claims some 550,000 installations of its Unix-based products on Intel computers worldwide , and although its ODT business accounted for only 20% of its revenues in 1991 — ODT 1.0 was launched in 1990 — and 25% so far this year , it believes ODT sales will rocket to account for 60% of its sales by next year . |
| 28 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This may account for the fact that thesis citations in systematic botany accounted for only 5% of the total citations in a recent study ( Delendick ) . |