Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adv] a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotch Whisky accounts for over a third of UK food and drinks exports , and its contribution limited the total food and drink ( F&D ) trade deficit to £4 bn in 1991 . |
| 2 | Japanese industry now accounts for nearly a third of sales . |
| 3 | The latest move comes at a time when ICI 's £1.2bn a year pharmaceutical division , which accounts for around a fifth of group trading profits , is set to emerge from a relatively fallow period . |
| 4 | But it 's the establishment front runner in the US , where Dell pioneered the direct marketing of PCs , which now accounts for almost a third of the total market . |
| 5 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 6 | Overhauling an industry that consumes $100 billion a year and accounts for about a seventh of the national economy merits delay . |
| 7 | Total investment , which includes spending on all types of capital goods by firms , accounts for about a fifth of total expenditure in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Social security accounts for about a third of total public spending in most western states . |
| 9 | Groundwater accounts for about a third of the public water supplies in Britain ; in the south and east of England dependence on supplies from groundwater is locally much greater . |
| 10 | But Keebler , the troubled biscuits and snack maker , which accounts for about a third of UB sales , has been caught short by price competition in a recession-stricken US market . |
| 11 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |
| 12 | And one of the things that we do need to look at is , that is almost every salesman that I 've ever measured and almost every bit of research I 've ever seen , suggested that every salesman in the world , spends at least a third of his time driving about in his car . |
| 13 | Thus just one granule absorbs at least a 500th of a drop . |