Example sentences of "which account for [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older people are more expensive for the state to care for — not only are they eligible for state pensions , which account for 13 per cent of public expenditure in Britain and 22 per cent of the federal budget in the United States , they are also the most costly group for public health services since they are likely to require expensive operations and long stays in hospital . |
| 2 | Doctors will be able to use the kit for regular screening for lung and gastric cancers , which account for 70 per cent of cancers treated in the western world . |
| 3 | The new parent wants to concentrate on rail traction vehicles for railways , industry and mining , which account for 90 per cent of LEW 's sales . |
| 4 | The position is less clear in the case of the 3,000 miles of inter-urban routes , which account for 60 per cent of Regional Railways ' track . |
| 5 | Evidence has emerged that mahogany which has been logged illegally in Brazilian Indian reserves is being exported to Western countries , much of it to the UK , which accounts for 52 per cent of Brazilian mahogany . |
| 6 | It does not include a ruling on methyl chloroform which accounts for five per cent of depletion and carbon tetrachloride which is responsible for eight per cent . |
| 7 | The rise was achieved mainly through increased circulation revenue , including a cover price rise , which accounts for 46 per cent of total newspaper income . |
| 8 | The two major forms of housing tenure in Britain are owner-occupation , which accounts for 51.5 per cent of the population , and local authority ( or council ) housing , which accounts for 33.4 per cent of the population , with housing associations , co-operatives and the private rented sector making up the remaining 15 per cent ( CSO , 1979 , p. 146 ) . |
| 9 | Within the company 's warehousing and distribution operation , which accounts for 75 per cent of the company 's employees , the majority opted to stay in London . |
| 10 | The two major forms of housing tenure in Britain are owner-occupation , which accounts for 51.5 per cent of the population , and local authority ( or council ) housing , which accounts for 33.4 per cent of the population , with housing associations , co-operatives and the private rented sector making up the remaining 15 per cent ( CSO , 1979 , p. 146 ) . |
| 11 | Paranapanema , a mining company which accounts for 60 per cent of the country 's mineral exports , is trying to gain control over all the gold mines in the Yanomami territory , and dozens of other companies are seeking mining concessions . |
| 12 | The two major components of insect cuticle are the carbohydrate chitin , which accounts for 25–60 per cent of the dry weight of various cuticles , and a number of proteins . |
| 13 | Reasons for exclusions ranged from physical abuse on staff , which accounted for 1.2 per cent of cases , to drugs ( 4pc ) , theft ( 5.5pc ) , ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ ( 17pc ) , verbal abuse to peers ( 14.9pc ) , verbal abuse of staff ( 12pc ) , and bullying , fighting or assault on peers ( 30.1pc ) . |
| 14 | There were fears that an extended war in the Gulf would add to Malta 's economic problems by raising oil prices and by reducing the tourist trade ( which accounted for 27 per cent of GNP and employed one-third of the workforce ) . |
| 15 | Redundancies , which accounted for 37 per cent of job losses , dismissals , which accounted for nearly 15 per cent , and voluntary resignations , which accounted for another 37 per cent , were all more important . |
| 16 | The recession in other European countries was tempered in the Netherlands by strong exports to newly unified Germany , the Netherlands ' largest trading partner , which accounted for 27.6 per cent of exports in 1990 . |
| 17 | The level of failures in the construction industry , which accounted for 30 per cent of all failures , compared with 20 per cent in 1983 , was three times higher than in the third quarter of 1988 . |
| 18 | While this figure represented only 46.15 per cent of total export earnings as against 52.23 per cent in 1989 , it was believed to be linked to a rise in the export of machinery and transport equipment which accounted for 32.3 per cent of total export earnings . |
| 19 | This has been achieved through the introduction of unleaded petrol in 1975 for use in cars equipped with catalytic converters ( lead ‘ poisons ’ the catalyst ) and which accounted for 89 per cent of all petrol sales in 1989 . |
| 20 | In the metal , engineering and shipbuilding trades , which accounted for 12 per cent of the male workforce , 20 per cent of all men over the age of twenty earned less than 22/ and 30.6 per cent less than 25/ , while the notoriously poorly paid male agricultural labourer received an average of 18/4d a week . |
| 21 | The government 's financial planning had been badly affected by an economic crisis brought about by the slump in the world price of coffee — which accounted for 90 per cent of Rwanda 's export earnings — following the collapse of the International Coffee Agreement in July [ see pp. 36836 ] . |
| 22 | He reported that export earnings in 1989 had reached only $92,000,000 , down from $102,000,000 the previous year , mainly due to a fall in world prices for prawns and cashew nuts , which accounted for 67 per cent of export revenues . |
| 23 | Kasonde predicted that inflation , which ran at 118 per cent in 1991 , would be reduced and indicated that government subsidies on various commodities , which accounted for 25 per cent of state expenditure , would be further reduced and ultimately ended [ see also p. 38666 ] . |
| 24 | The Gulf crisis also contributed to a fall in revenue from tourism , which accounted for 9 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) ; UK and US visitors in particular brought less income , although hoteliers also blamed the government for the damaging effect of a highly valued peseta and for not investing more heavily in tourist infrastructure , especially in improved coastal sewerage systems . |