Example sentences of "account for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether , United 's brands account for about 4.5 per cent of all beer and 15 per cent of lager sales . |
| 2 | Steel or ( as they are still called ) ‘ tin ’ cans account for about 10 billion of the 14 billion cans used in the UK every year . |
| 3 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 4 | The top 100 account for about four-fifths of sales and employment . |
| 5 | Interbank deposits regularly account for about 70 per cent of the market 's gross size . |
| 6 | Stillbirths account for about two-thirds of the perinatal deaths in Japan . |
| 7 | Broadleaved trees now account for about 46 per cent of all planting , encouraged by higher grant rates . |
| 8 | The Audit Commission focused on the 20 most common operations , which account for about 30 per cent . |
| 9 | Food products account for about 30 per cent of Third World manufacturing output and more of employment ( Fath , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | In fact , the right-hand side variables in equation ( 6.7 ) account for about 90 per cent of the movements in so this criterion seems likely to be satisfied . |
| 11 | Power plants are responsible for most of the pollution : they account for about 90 per cent of all the emissions of sulphur dioxide , 40 per cent of nitrogen dioxide and around 60-70 per cent of dust . |
| 12 | It has been estimated that tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking account for about three quarters of all oral and pharyngeal cancers [ 4 ] . |
| 13 | The appendices alone account for about half of the book . |
| 14 | Mergers account for about half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 15 | Topham ( 1983 ) notes that in the USA state grants finance about a third of local public expenditure , while in the UK grants-in-aid account for about half the revenue of local authorities . |
| 16 | Nearly two thirds of the EOE 's clients are private investors who account for about half of the trading volume . |
| 17 | Cairns group members — which include Australia , Brazil , Argentina , Indonesia , Canada , the Philippines and Thailand — account for about one-quarter of world agricultural trade . |
| 18 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 19 | External exposures contributed by caesium-137 and short-lived gamma-emitting radionuclides account for about 700 u Gy of the global dose commitment for all tissues . |
| 20 | To underline the point I thought I 'd show you this four year average one thing that the exercise shows is that between them our book , entertainment and fine china businesses normally account for about seven percent of Pearson 's annual profit in their first half and for about thirty three percent of our profit in the full year . |
| 21 | For 400 years the city has been divided between Estonians and Latvians , but today Russian speakers account for about 40 per cent of the population . |
| 22 | Scotch , Canadian and American whiskies combined account for about one-half of the distilled spirits sold in the United States . |
| 23 | Walker is British Steel 's largest single customer , accounting for about 7 per cent of its total output of 13.1 million tonnes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Turnover rose 3.1 per cent to DM 32 520m , with acquisitions accounting for about two thirds of this increase . |
| 26 | Customs duties and related levies were more important , accounting for about one-third of government proceeds . |
| 27 | Taking the donor agencies as a whole , about 9,000 evaluations of individual projects have been made since 1970 , probably accounting for about 12 per cent of all projects launched since that time . |
| 28 | The USA is the largest single economy in the world , accounting for about 40 per cent of the output of all the OECD countries . |
| 29 | Market analysis suggests that inkjet sales , which were virtually zilch three or four years ago , will massively exceed both laser and dot matrix printer sales over the next few years , accounting for about half of the total printer market by 1997 . |
| 30 | Indirect taxation in the form of VAT is a major source of UK tax revenue , accounting for about half of the take from commodity taxation and about 15% of total tax revenue . |