Example sentences of "account [prep] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accidents and external causes of injury among the children of the subgroup of unoccupied families account for nearly 60% of deaths , twice the proportion in the rest of the population . |
| 2 | Desulfovibrios account for approximately 66% of all colonic sulphate reducing bacteria , while Desulfobulbus spp. constitute about 16% . |
| 3 | Like Japan 's economic future , it does not depend on basic manufacturing : assembly costs account for just 5% of its sales . |
| 4 | The company admits that it is disappointed with its returns from Spain , which have so far produced sales which account for just 3% of its total European total : the company had expected 10–15% . |
| 5 | Our results confirm the constant prevalence of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine , which together account for over 60% of all phospholipis identified in human gastric mucosa . |
| 6 | Such contracts so far account for around 15% of most institutes ' funds . |
| 7 | Malignant bile duct strictures are mainly the result of cancer of the ampulla of Vater , pancreas , or bile duct and account for about 75% of patients presenting with extrahepatic bile duct obstruction . |
| 8 | Spider monkeys ( A teles geoffreyi ) on Barro Colorado Island eat leaves , which account for about 20% of their fresh weight intake and provide most of their protein , notable being the protein-rich young shoots of Poulsenia armata ( Moraceae ) and Ceiba pentandra ( Bombacaceae ) , which has 25.3% dry weight protein , and Cecropia leaves , especially their petioles , which have high mineral content . |
| 9 | Between them , the two account for almost 90% of Italy 's television audience . |
| 10 | Responses were received from 109 companies that , in total , account for almost 70% of the total R&D expenditure reported by companies in the 1992 R&D scoreboard . |
| 11 | 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% ? |
| 12 | LTOM has failed to entice private clients , who account for only 20% of its business but are the lifeblood of options markets overseas . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 15 | Women aged over 38 years account for only 3% of mothers , but carry 23% of all Down 's babies . |
| 16 | In theory it would be possible to significantly reduce the incidence of Down 's Syndrome , remembering that women aged 38 years or over account for only 3% of births , but 23% of Down 's births . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mature medical students ( defined as over 23 ) account for only 2% of the medical school population . |
| 20 | IBM Japan Ltd reported net profit for 1992 down 44.8% to the equivalent of $268m ; turnover slipped 1.6% to $10,750m ; the company says service business including systems integration showed double-digit growth from the previous year but that hardware sales turned in a double-digit drop ; ‘ We are still in the midst of changing course to become a service company , ’ the company said — ‘ Along with the severe state of the economy , that resulted in lower sales and profits ; ’ systems integration , accounting for just 8% of sales , grew by 40% and IBM Japan plans to increase staff there by half this year ; hardware sales accounted for 53% of the total , but the ratio could reverse this year ; the company plans to cut operating costs per employee by about 10% , further reducing headquarters staff by a quarter , reducing the number of top executives by a quarter and slashing executive bonuses in half . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , therefore , the UK fertilizer industry is oligopolistic in structure , with four firms ( ICI , Norsk Hydro , UKF , and Kemira ) accounting for over 80% of market share in 1987 . |
| 22 | the service secor is vitally important , accounting for over 50% of GNP ; |
| 23 | But Ernst & Young , Deloitte & Touche and KPMG Peat Marwick , all of which rely on their auditing and accounting for over 50% of total earnings , saw revenue fall in real terms . |
| 24 | The Netherlands will be a major energy importer by the year 2000 with oil and gas imports probably accounting for over 40% of total demand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 28 | In 1970 New York City handed over the management of its clinics and hospitals ( accounting for about 20% of all general care discharges at that time ) to a new Health and Hospitals Corporation , with the purpose of freeing the management of the system from city bureaucracy , and enhancing its ability to raise revenue from Medicaid , Medicare , and private health insurance . |
| 29 | Firstly , French Label Rouge poultry producers now accounting for about 20% of poultry consumption in France are required to provide trees for shade in order to qualify for the label . |
| 30 | A median of 118.6 µmol/hour of salivary bicarbonate was swalloed ( 95% CI 63.5–206.2 ) , accounting for about 25% of all bicarbonate within the oesophageal segment ( Fig 3 ) . |