Example sentences of "[vb base] for [adv] a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider financial services , for example , which already account for nearly a third of GDP . |
| 2 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
| 3 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 4 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 5 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 6 | Voluntary schools in England account for about a third of primary schools and a fifth of secondary schools ( see Figure 6.9 ) . |