Example sentences of "for [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 2 | ‘ Although these groups presently account for only 7 per cent of Aids cases in the UK they represent a reservoir from which the spread into the general heterosexual population can occur . |
| 3 | Part-time workers accounted for only 7 per cent of the employed population in France and between 10 and 12 per cent in the former FRG during the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 4 | In 1990 around 58 per cent of exports went to EC countries and 74 per cent of imports came from the EC , while the country 's five EFTA partners accounted for only 7 per cent of trade . |
| 5 | THE hostile £290 million takeover bid by Airtours for its rival holiday operator , Owners Abroad , lapsed yesterday , as the bidder received acceptances for only 35.18 per cent of the target . |
| 6 | In 1981 , the union 's position was even weaker : UMW mines accounted for only 44 per cent of national coal production ; again , there were large stockpiles of coal ; and generally , there was a more conservative , anti-union climate : |
| 7 | ‘ National ’ brewers accounted for only 18 per cent of all beer production , and their brands were nearly all bottled ales , since these were more easily transported and had a longer life than cask-conditioned draught beer . |
| 8 | As Table 2.5 shows , some 70 per cent of agency workers are in eight narrowly defined occupations — systems analysts and programmers , nurses , draughtsmen , clerks , secretaries and receptionists , office machine operators , telephonists , and bus and lorry drivers — which account for only 18 per cent of total employment . |
| 9 | At present local taxation accounts for only 14 per cent . |
| 10 | Departments have also generally found it easier to establish objectives for administrative costs ( which account for only 13 per cent of departmental expenditure ) than for programme costs ( 87 per cent of departmental expenditure and , therefore , offering potentially much greater scope for savings ) ( Public Accounts Committee , 1986–7c , para. 30 ) . |
| 11 | In fact for only 13 per cent was it not much of a whole-school effort , suggesting that mostly it did operate in the way intended . |
| 12 | Instead of local taxation in Scotland accounting for only 11 per cent . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , therefore , whereas in 1949–50 means-tested benefits accounted for only 12.7 per cent of the social security budget , they now command over a quarter of all social security expenditure ( Reform of Social Security : Background Papers , Cmnd. 9519 , pp. 28–9 ) . |
| 14 | The citation only of India , ranked 27th in US overseas markets and with a bilateral trade surplus of $850,000,000 , accounting for only 1 per cent of the US deficit , was seen by most observers as evidence that the administration was anxious not to create ill feeling which might jeopardize the " Uruguay Round " of the multinational trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Pentland Crown accounts for only two per cent of the commercial market , but is still popular with gardeners because of its hardiness and resistance to disease . |
| 17 | In a sample of 5-year-olds in 1975 , only 8 per cent of children with fathers in class I had no pre-school experience , compared to 43 per cent of children with fathers in class V. In 1980 there were places in all these institutions , plus childminders , for only 4 per cent of the 0 — 4 age-group . |
| 18 | Pupils from ethnic minorities account for only 4 per cent of the school roll . |
| 19 | and the Arts Council 14 per cent. , but the Minister went for only 4 per cent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Political polls account for only six per cent of the research industry 's business , but they are its most visible — and accountable — manifestation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Fixed contract workers , on the other hand , are predominantly men : women account for only 37 per cent . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | of Britain 's deterrent in return for only 2 per cent . |
| 26 | At present bicycles are used for only 2 per cent of journeys in the UK , compared to 30 per cent in the Netherlands and 20 per cent in Denmark . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The remaining 80 per cent of the records are also equal in update frequency , but account in total for only 20 per cent of transactions . |
| 29 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 30 | Since 1979 there has been a loss of over 1.5 million manufacturing jobs ; by 1987 manufacturing accounted for only 22 per cent of the British workforce , ‘ a figure more typical of countries with large fishing or agricultural sectors ’ . |