Example sentences of "[adv] account for about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To underline the point I thought I 'd show you this four year average one thing that the exercise shows is that between them our book , entertainment and fine china businesses normally account for about seven percent of Pearson 's annual profit in their first half and for about thirty three percent of our profit in the full year . |
| 2 | Taking the donor agencies as a whole , about 9,000 evaluations of individual projects have been made since 1970 , probably accounting for about 12 per cent of all projects launched since that time . |
| 3 | Broadleaved trees now account for about 46 per cent of all planting , encouraged by higher grant rates . |
| 4 | International cargo carriage now accounts for about 75 per cent of airfreight movements . |
| 5 | Manufacturing output increased by around 10 per cent , and manufactures now accounted for about 80 per cent of all exports ( compared with about 33 per cent in 1980 ) . |
| 6 | Interbank deposits regularly account for about 70 per cent of the market 's gross size . |
| 7 | Nuclear power then accounted for about 20 per cent of total CEGB generation capacity . |