Example sentences of "account for [adv] [conj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , LIFFE still trades derivatives in US T-bonds and eurodollars , but these account for less than 5 per cent of the exchange 's total business . |
| 2 | Today US-registered vessels make up only one-third of the fleet , and account for less than 16 per cent of the total number of dolphin deaths . |
| 3 | More than 40 per cent of the world population lives in China , India , Eastern Europe and South America , which account for less than 10 per cent of our sales today . |
| 4 | Grain Whisky : United Distillers ' grain whisky distilleries account for more than one third of total industry production . |
| 5 | Will my right Hon. Friend confirm that the authority 's detailed proposals will be published before the summer , and will those proposals include advertising campaigns on tobacco and alcohol abuse , which account for more than 100,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom ? |
| 6 | With sterling now at a considerably lower rate against the Deutschmark , French franc , the currencies of the Benelux countries and the dollar , which together account for more than 50 per cent of Scotland 's export trade , the impact will be significant . |
| 7 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 8 | Hence , Britain 's five biggest supermarket groups now account for more than 60 per cent of all grocery sales . |
| 9 | The national brewers account for more than 90 per cent of total lager production . |
| 10 | The latest crime figures show that burglaries , theft and handling stolen goods now account for more than 90 per cent of the total . |
| 11 | Power stations and road traffic are the major sources of nitrogen oxide , together accounting for more than 80 per cent of the UK total . |
| 12 | The US was the largest investor in Scotland , accounting for more than 44 per cent of electronics jobs . |
| 13 | With nationalized industries accounting for more than 25 per cent of the country 's non-housing investment ( compared with less than 10 per cent in the United States and Japan ) , the efficiency of the public sector had a considerable impact throughout the whole of the economy . |
| 14 | Production now accounts for more than five per cent of the national pig kill . |
| 15 | This means , in a year , car crime accounts for more than five million pounds in Milton Keynes . |
| 16 | That managed competition may increase in time but it is stretching credibility a long way to suggest that a company that accounts for more than 96 per cent . |
| 17 | Rape , for example , accounts for less than 1.5 per cent . |
| 18 | It should be pointed out , however , that the results of the Forster and Olbrei experiment do not provide evidence for a constant effect of syntactic analysis since a correlation coefficient of.65 accounts for less than 40 per cent of the variance in processing times . |
| 19 | ANC sources said the funds of the ANC Department of Social Welfare , which she heads , had been frozen on the orders of the movement 's treasurer-general after she failed to account for more than 400,000 Rand ( £80,000 ) that is missing . |
| 20 | Mr Hobbs said the loss of the Chicago service was a ‘ real blow ’ for Stansted , although it accounted for less than two per cent of the airport 's traffic . |
| 21 | The land tax accounted for the lion 's share of total government revenue throughout the 1870s and 1880s , and it was only towards the end of the century that it accounted for less than 50 per cent of tax income . |
| 22 | Few industrial occupations ( apart from the printing trade ) accounted for more than two to three hundred women , and in many single trades the total in the city was less than 100 ( see Tables 4b and 4c , and for percentages , Table 1 ) . |
| 23 | While Damascus observers commented that most of the changes were within the context of a regular rotation of minor posts , one of the more significant changes was the appointment of Nadir Nabulsi , the chairman of Al-Furat Petroleum Company which accounted for more than 60 per cent of Syria 's crude oil production , as Oil and Mineral Resources Minister in place of Antonios Habib . |
| 24 | Bairds of Hamilton and Hourstons of Ayr , which together accounted for more than 50 per cent of group turnover , were sold as going concerns to JT Morgan & Co ( Swansea ) and its associated company , Omnibreck Holdings , respectively . |
| 25 | In most developed countries , cooking would account for less than 5 per cent of national energy consumption . |
| 26 | Contemporary observers were quite clear that the modest decline in marriage around 1870 could not account for more than 10 per cent of the fall in births ( Yule 1906 ) . |
| 27 | As regards content , the convention established that , where practicable , a majority of European works should be screened ; as regards advertising , it established that advertisements should not account for more than 15 per cent of daily transmission time . |
| 28 | Holdings of unlisted shares must not account for more than 15 per cent of total investment . |
| 29 | Twenty years ago lager accounted for less than 10 per cent of total beer sales . |
| 30 | In total , the upper castes accounted for less than 20 per cent of the country 's total population , but their members constituted a closed political and economic elite . |