Example sentences of "[vb past] for [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the Arts Council 14 per cent. , but the Minister went for only 4 per cent . |
| 2 | In 1986 this accounted for nearly 12 per cent of revenue raised by expenditure taxes and 4 per cent of total government revenue ( see Godfrey and Maynard 1988 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The range of problems on which solicitors are consulted is quite narrow , and of 27 categories adopted in the survey , seven accounted for over 80 per cent . |
| 5 | So-called " dollar bananas " from Costa Rica , Honduras and Panama and also from Colombia , Ecuador and Guatemala accounted for over 50 per cent of EC banana imports according to World Bank figures . |
| 6 | Traditionally , the C2 and D groups were the so-called ‘ mass market ’ , and they accounted for over 60 per cent of adults until the late seventies . |
| 7 | Index linked National Savings Certificates were popular up until the early 1980's , but with a fall in inflation they have tended to be eclipsed by the popularity of fixed interest certificates which accounted for about 16 per cent of total assets in 1990 . |
| 8 | Instead they pointed to the growth in development funds contributed from abroad , which accounted for about 80 per cent of the development budget at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 9 | The NRA estimates that oil and sewage sources each accounted for about 20 per cent of the total reported incidents with farm and industrial incidents accounting for about 10 per cent each . |
| 10 | This latest outbreak of sectarian fighting , momentarily stilled by a government-mediated ceasefire on July 21 , came as Sunni groups voiced opposition to the government 's apparently conciliatory approach to the Shias ( who accounted for about 20 per cent of the country 's population ) . |
| 11 | The government 's programme to clear more land for agricultural production and to boost timber exports , which accounted for almost 7 per cent of GDP in 1989 , also provoked a crisis in September 1989 when environmentalists backed aboriginal Penans in Sarawak in disrupting logging operations . |
| 12 | Nickel was affected in 1989 by sharp cuts in orders from stainless steel manufacturers who accounted for almost 60 per cent of its consumption . |
| 13 | Investment commitments had mainly been in the electronics industries , which accounted for almost 49 per cent of the total , and in chemicals , which had almost 29 per cent . |
| 14 | Although the Sinhalese were the largest ethnic group in the city of Colombo , in 1911 they accounted for only forty-four per cent of the municipality 's population . |
| 15 | This suggests that migration 's role in swelling the South 's labour force is restricted to non-manual workers , for whom the South provided 61 per cent of the movers ' destinations , while it accounted for only 52 per cent of points of departure . |
| 16 | Equally important in setting the force apart was the strong representation of Malays , who accounted for only 0.3 per cent of the population , but for nearly one-third of policemen . |
| 17 | Work by Chris Gordon on elderly people surveyed by the New Survey of London Life and Labour in 1929–31 showed that only 7.3 per cent of the 2,286 elderly people in his sample were in receipt of any direct financial support from their family , and this accounted for only 2 per cent of the overall income of this elderly population ( as shown in Table 3.1 ) . |