Example sentences of "accounting for only " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 2 | Photo-Me 's identity card venture is still at an embryonic stage , accounting for only 2 ½%; of turnover . |
| 3 | Such a move is opposed by the Serbs , who , although accounting for only one third of Bosnia 's population , have laid claim to more than two thirds of the republic 's territory . |
| 4 | British-made goods were hit particularly hard , accounting for only 1,815,670 of the 2,863,302 articles hallmarked — a drop of 14.1 per cent . |
| 5 | May and June are the driest months , together accounting for only about 10% of the annual rainfall , while more than 12% falls in December alone . |
| 6 | Even with oil accounting for only 35% of total demand , net imports of oil will still be over 400 million tonnes per year by the end of the century and including coal and gas imports the actual amount of energy imports will rise between 1983 and the year 2000 by some 200 million tonnes to represent 45% of consumption . |
| 7 | Only one Japanese factory ship remains in operation , and one Japanese whaling company is left , accounting for only a fraction of the income that once was earned from whale products . |
| 8 | Britain has the smallest private-rental sector of any industrial economy , accounting for only 7% of all tenure , compared with 45% in Germany and 33% in America . |
| 9 | As this was a population study the results on lung function and respiratory illness depended on the majority of children who were term babies and had normal birth weight , with low birth weight or premature infants accounting for only a minority . |
| 10 | The citation only of India , ranked 27th in US overseas markets and with a bilateral trade surplus of $850,000,000 , accounting for only 1 per cent of the US deficit , was seen by most observers as evidence that the administration was anxious not to create ill feeling which might jeopardize the " Uruguay Round " of the multinational trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |