Example sentences of "[adj] for [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | MANUFACTURING industry was responsible for nearly 13 per cent of all start-ups in 1992 at 59,150 — the highest share for the sector since 1980 . |
| 2 | Customs sources claimed that the alleged ring laundered some £19 million in drug profits for Colombia 's Madellin Cartel , believed to be responsible for nearly eight per cent of the cocaine smuggled into the US . |
| 3 | Brazil is responsible for nearly 12 per cent of carbon emissions in the world , according to the director of the National Institute for Space Research , Volker Kirchhoff . |
| 4 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 5 | The £5 billion UK packaging industry consumes six per cent of total energy but claims to be responsible for just one per cent of waste . |
| 6 | According to Wang Yangzu , deputy director of the agency , these businesses account for only 4 per cent of polluters but are responsible for over 60 per cent of the total industrial pollution caused . |
| 7 | Created in 1968 to give Dick Crossman a new and senior job , the Department of Health and Social Security was responsible for over 40 per cent of all public spending . |
| 8 | Also , UK-based artists have been regularly responsible for over 30 per cent of the world 's record business . |
| 9 | In 1972 the US had by far the biggest fleet , with 98 of the largest class of tuna seiners , and was responsible for almost 90 per cent of the dolphin kill . |
| 10 | Certainly , because those very small farms contribute so little to agricultural productivity — just 29,000 farmers out of about 120,000 commercial holdings are responsible for almost 60 per cent of farming output — many people within the industry query whether or not the very small farm should be legitimately classed as a farm . |
| 11 | Nitrous oxide is also responsible for about six per cent of the greenhouse effect . |
| 12 | These foreign-owned firms were responsible for about 20 per cent of UK manufacturing output — a slightly lower proportion than in France , West Germany or Italy , but becoming more diverse as investment from the EC , Japan and other industrialized countries increased while that of the USA declined . |
| 13 | It is responsible for around 79 per cent of deforestation , 72 per cent of arable land expansion , and 69 per cent of growth in livestock numbers … some 4.5 million square kilometres of additional wildlife habitat will have to be converted to human uses — equivalent to four-fifths of the total area of nature reserves in the world in 1990 . ’ |
| 14 | Conversely , if the absent parent has a high income , the lone mother and the children will not share in this because , once the maintenance bill is met , the absent parent is liable for only 25 per cent more of any additional income . |