Example sentences of "for [adv] [n mass] of " 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 | But coal accounts for only 19% of Soviet energy production . |
| 5 | At that stage , the tigers accounted for only 19% of the money flowing into these countries . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nuclear power accounted for only 1% of demand in 1983 yet there is no lack of enthusiasm for its development . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Britain 's exports to the EC account for only 15% of its GDP . |
| 12 | Manufacturing accounts for only 15% of GDP , compared with 20% in Finland and Sweden . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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% ? |
| 15 | LTOM has failed to entice private clients , who account for only 20% of its business but are the lifeblood of options markets overseas . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Simultaneous food and acid reflux occurred for only 0.95+5.2/-1.2% of the time . |
| 21 | By 1988 bank borrowing accounted for only 53% of their external financing ; debt equalled only 63% of their assets . |
| 22 | Finding that a third of the track and half the stations accounted for only 2% of traffic , he began a drastic programme of closures . |
| 23 | At P&G , where 25% of its 2,300 brand varieties account for only 2% of sales , old brands like Puritan cooking oil and White Cloud toilet paper are being scrapped . |
| 24 | Mature medical students ( defined as over 23 ) account for only 2% of the medical school population . |
| 25 | Domestic loans a year ago accounted for only 35% of life-assurance companies ' ¥116 trillion in assets ; they expect to allocate up to 60% in the present financial year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In Jersey City , where non-Hispanic whites account for only 35% of the population , a 34-year-old Wall Street anti-tax whizz-kid runs for mayor against the local machine . |
| 28 | Even so , the Japanese government 's Fair Trade Commission reckons that the average firm even within the former zaibatsu relies on other group members for only 13% of purchases and 15% of sales . |
| 29 | All three patients after vagotomy and pyloroplasty had negative provocation tests and average gastric sodium concentrations were above 100 mmol/l for only 16% of the study . |
| 30 | Women aged over 38 years account for only 3% of mothers , but carry 23% of all Down 's babies . |