Example sentences of "accounts for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINCE the second world war , a handful of Chinese families have reigned over Bangkok 's economy , which accounts for over half of Thailand 's output . |
| 2 | Under Venezuela 's five year plan for 1984–1989 the profile of debt payments allows for annual growth of 2.5 — 5.5% but whether this can be achieved is highly dependent on oil prices and quotas since oil accounts for over 90% of exports . |
| 3 | Since oil still accounts for over 25% of foreign exchange earnings and some 65% of total revenue the effect of the past five years has been almost cataclysmic . |
| 4 | We shall examine how they arrived at an indicator of relative need for non-psychiatric hospital in-patient services ( which accounts for over half of the total NHS budget ) . |
| 5 | This accounts for over 70 per cent of the combined reduction in annual surpluses , so if revenues fail to grow it is obvious where the axe will have to fall . |
| 6 | Michael Silverman himself , who handles assignments in the firm 's property sector — which now accounts for over a quarter of its business — has also established a reputation in the retail industry . |
| 7 | The other notable high cost function is ‘ connect parts ’ which accounts for over 60 per cent of the total . |
| 8 | The other notable high cost function is ‘ connect parts ’ which accounts for over 60 per cent of the total . |
| 9 | In the US alone there are 300,000 deaths annually ; this number accounts for over half of all cardiovascular mortality . |
| 10 | SOFFEX also launched an options contract on the Swiss Market Index ( SMI ) in 1988 which has proved to be highly successful and accounts for over half of the exchange 's annual turnover . |
| 11 | Scotch Whisky accounts for over a third of UK food and drinks exports , and its contribution limited the total food and drink ( F&D ) trade deficit to £4 bn in 1991 . |
| 12 | NEUE MITTE is in the centre of the town of Oberhausen ( population 225,000 ) , which is itself in the state of North Rhine Westphalia , the largest of the German states both in population ( 17.5 million ) and economic power , where it accounts for over a quarter of Germany 's gross national product . |
| 13 | Antibiotics account for two-thirds of Beecham 's business and Tagamet , an anti-ulcer drug , accounts for slightly less than one quarter Of SmithKline 's sales . |
| 14 | Clapham , indeed , accounts for nearly half the 77 fatalities of the last ten years : compare that with the 5,000 deaths and 300,000 injuries every year on the roads . |
| 15 | Japanese industry now accounts for nearly a third of sales . |
| 16 | Poland accounts for nearly 50% of Eastern Europe 's production while the GDR and Czechoslovakia are both major producers . |
| 17 | THE biggest domestic culprit for wasting water is the toilet cistern , which accounts for nearly one third of household consumption . |
| 18 | The single occupational group of secretaries and receptionists itself accounts for nearly one in four of all such workers . |
| 19 | Car crime , principally by young males , accounts for nearly 30 per cent . |
| 20 | An efficient port transport system is vital to Britain 's economy as trade accounts for nearly 60% of national income and over 90% of all imports and exports pass through the nations ports . |
| 21 | Domestic demand for fuel is an important subject as regards both the economy in aggregate and the welfare of individual households : the domestic sector accounts for nearly 30% of total final energy use in the UK . |
| 22 | This market accounts for up to 70 per cent of the ECM 's gross ( total ) size . |
| 23 | We thus have a general sociobiological theory that accounts for both altruistic and selfish social behaviour . |
| 24 | This accounts for both oligo I and III . |
| 25 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 26 | In Brunei oil and gas accounts for well over 90% of exports . |
| 27 | Syntactic structure accounts for well and ill-formedness . |
| 28 | Wider coverage accounts for well over half of the increase in the proportion of output devoted to welfare provision during the 1960s . |
| 29 | The South accounts for approximately 10 per cent of world manufacturing capacity at present , and the Report 's objective was to raise this to 25 per cent by the year 2000 . |
| 30 | The merger has also increased the size of our livestock pig activity , which accounts for approximately £100 million of the total turnover . |