Example sentences of "[vb base] for [adv] half [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Though French brands still account for nearly half of the luxury market , German , British , Italian and even a few Japanese and American brands are showing up on the shelves .
2 Windows-based applications now account for nearly half of all PC-software sales .
3 Those aged 65 + account for approximately half of all expenditure on the NHS .
4 The appendices alone account for about half of the book .
5 Mergers account for about half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK .
6 Nearly two thirds of the EOE 's clients are private investors who account for about half of the trading volume .
7 But reduced East-West tension has made this even more difficult , clobbering defence sales , which account for roughly half of Deutsche Aerospace 's revenues .
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