Example sentences of "[verb] for over [num] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social services costs account for over 70 per cent of the amount spent in the public sector . |
| 2 | In a survey of more than 200 port operators ( which collectively account for over 70 per cent of all UK traffic movement ) 59 per cent of respondents reported an increase in competition since July 1989 ( 1 ) . |
| 3 | Nowadays , imports account for over 20 per cent of the UK carpet market and this percentage is increasing . |
| 4 | Investment accounts have offered competitive rates in the late 1980 's and now account for over 22 per cent of the total assets portfolio . |
| 5 | Advances are the major profit-earning asset for the banks and account for over 60 per cent of their sterling assets . |
| 6 | Notably Kent , whose player costs soared by 27 per cent between 1990 and 1991 and account for over 40 per cent of its total costs , have been forced to cut to 20 . |
| 7 | Together these two industries account for over 90 per cent of the exports generated . |
| 8 | The country 's economic troubles are rooted in a string of global crises : specifically the oil crisis of the 1970s and the steep drop in copper prices , a commodity upon which Zambia depends for over 80 per cent of its foreign earnings . |
| 9 | This survey , conducted in the mid 1950s when differences between US and Japanese culture were even greater than they are now , found a positive correlation of .87 between these two samples ' dreaming rates for the 34 topics — accounting for over 75 per cent of the variance . |
| 10 | With retail businesses accounting for over 60 per cent of Whitbread 's turnover , the company can offer a number of opportunities for career development within the Restaurants & Leisure Division . |
| 11 | Primary and extractive industries ( now accounting for over 50 per cent of gross social product ) are displacing manufacturing industries in relative importance , as investment is harnessed to the tasks of developing energy resources , ore and mineral deposits . |
| 12 | This accounts for over 70 per cent of the combined reduction in annual surpluses , so if revenues fail to grow it is obvious where the axe will have to fall . |
| 13 | The other notable high cost function is ‘ connect parts ’ which accounts for over 60 per cent of the total . |
| 14 | The other notable high cost function is ‘ connect parts ’ which accounts for over 60 per cent of the total . |
| 15 | Although the peasantry continued to account for over 80 per cent of the population , discontent among the urban poor and especially the industrial working class was of scarcely less significance than the unrest in the countryside . |
| 16 | Repairs to lexical choice , in fact , appear to account for over 40 per cent of the repairs found in the speech of two- and three-year-olds ( Clark , 1982b ) . |
| 17 | The range of problems on which solicitors are consulted is quite narrow , and of 27 categories adopted in the survey , seven accounted for over 80 per cent . |
| 18 | So-called " dollar bananas " from Costa Rica , Honduras and Panama and also from Colombia , Ecuador and Guatemala accounted for over 50 per cent of EC banana imports according to World Bank figures . |
| 19 | Traditionally , the C2 and D groups were the so-called ‘ mass market ’ , and they accounted for over 60 per cent of adults until the late seventies . |
| 20 | Expenditure was set at KD3,600 million ; revenue KD2,400 million ( of which oil would account for over 85 per cent ) ; the budget deficit was estimated at KD1,200 million . |
| 21 | Family doctors treat and care for over 95 per cent of all mental disorder . |
| 22 | By 1981 328 companies accounted for over 50 per cent of manufacturing employment , and a mere 66 companies for 30 per cent . |
| 23 | Of this total , UK company securities accounted for over 50 per cent , and overseas securities , by far the greater part of which are also company shares , accounted for 13 per cent . |
| 24 | The importance of manufacturing increased steadily from the beginning of the Meiji period but until the late 1920s agriculture accounted for over 25 per cent of net domestic production . |