Example sentences of "for [adv] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 2 | Files from Warrington , for example , were sent to Glasgow for only a sixth of the cost by road . |
| 3 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 4 | Consider financial services , for example , which already account for nearly a third of GDP . |
| 5 | Japanese industry now accounts for nearly a third of sales . |
| 6 | European turnover was $100m for the year , which accounted for nearly a third of Sequent 's total sales . |
| 7 | Officially responsible for nearly a third of the 150,000 divorces granted annually . |
| 8 | Overhauling an industry that consumes $100 billion a year and accounts for about a seventh of the national economy merits delay . |
| 9 | In the first Whitehall study risk factors such as age , smoking , systolic blood pressure , height , and plasma cholesterol and blood glucose concentration accounted for about a fifth of the twofold to threefold grade differences in mortality from coronary heart disease . |
| 10 | Total investment , which includes spending on all types of capital goods by firms , accounts for about a fifth of total expenditure in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |
| 12 | Social security accounts for about a third of total public spending in most western states . |
| 13 | Out of the married women sector , who accounted for about a third of abortions in 1980 , about 3% were because of Reason Four . |
| 14 | The thematic map work , accounting for about a third of staff effort , was commissioned by the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) . |
| 15 | Groundwater accounts for about a third of the public water supplies in Britain ; in the south and east of England dependence on supplies from groundwater is locally much greater . |
| 16 | In the Whitehall II study , differences between subjects in health , health related behaviours , psychosocial aspects of the work environment , and social circumstances outside work accounted for about a third of the threefold to sixfold differences in sickness absence by grade . |
| 17 | And it is a a very important pathogen responsible for about a third of the cases of meningitis in in this country almost exclusively in children . |
| 18 | Keyboard studies remain paramount for about a third of music college undergraduates although opportunities are provided for the learning of a second instrument or singing . |
| 19 | Each partnership authority has a different spending pattern , but overall expenditure on social projects such as recreation and personal social services accounts for rather more than two-fifths of the total ; that on economic projects , such as site works , accounts for about a third ; and that on environmental projects , such as restoration of derelict land and housing , for a quarter . |
| 20 | Voluntary schools in England account for about a third of primary schools and a fifth of secondary schools ( see Figure 6.9 ) . |
| 21 | But Keebler , the troubled biscuits and snack maker , which accounts for about a third of UB sales , has been caught short by price competition in a recession-stricken US market . |
| 22 | IT IS NEARLY TWO YEARS SINCE ICI Chemicals & Polymers was formed on New Year 's Day in 1987 as a new group within ICI responsible for about a third of the Group 's total assets and turnover . |
| 23 | And a Campaign For Real Ale spokesman warned : ‘ You are talking about 10p for about an eighth of an inch more liquid instead of froth . ’ |
| 24 | Nothing stops a British government removing or reducing the Opposition 's freedom to attack the government for roughly a third of the parliamentary session except the belief that this would be undesirable and would hamper both parties in the long run . |
| 25 | Of the total 2,550 million rupees ( £100 million ) earned by Indian software firms in 1988-89 , exports accounted for almost a third . |
| 26 | For almost a third of the clients for whom the development officers provided a service they obtained or increased cover from other services . |
| 27 | Motor vehicles , which accounted for almost a third of the UK trade deficit in 1988 , are closing the gap — thanks partly to the Sunderland factory established by Nissan . |
| 28 | But it 's the establishment front runner in the US , where Dell pioneered the direct marketing of PCs , which now accounts for almost a third of the total market . |
| 29 | The NCC survey found that external hacking posed much less of a threat to systems than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff , who were responsible for almost a third of all logical security failures and breaches . |
| 30 | Their success in winning this load ( which formed the bulk of domestic sales ) explains why domestic consumers accounted for almost a third of the Area Boards ' sales in the first ten years , rather more than was typical in other industrialised countries . |