Example sentences of "account [prep] more [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners .
2 In 1989 they accounted for more than a quarter of BR 's total charter-train revenue — and the trend is ever upwards .
3 The SNP needs a swing of nearly 9 per cent but the polls show the Nationalists gaining ground in Scotland and Labour and the Liberals — who accounted for more than a quarter of the vote in Galloway last time — are likely to be squeezed .
4 It accounted for more than a third of the overall increase in recorded crime this year .
5 Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any .
6 The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending .
7 Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier .
8 It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period .
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