Example sentences of "account for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in a number of cases the variables on the right-hand side of equation ( 6.5 ) account for rather a small proportion of the variance of the left-hand side variable , suggesting that some important influences on have been omitted from the estimating equation . |
| 2 | Consider financial services , for example , which already account for nearly a third of GDP . |
| 3 | PC superstores account for nearly a quarter of the total market in the US , and they 're beginning to make inroads into the UK market as well with the likes of PC World and the Business Superstore . |
| 4 | Japanese companies already account for nearly a quarter of the 5,000 foreign-based companies operating in New York . |
| 5 | New York , New York : Japanese companies already account for nearly a quarter of the 5,000 foreign-based companies operating in the city |
| 6 | Specific grants have increased in importance since 1974 and now account for approximately a quarter of current grants ( excluding the housing benefit scheme ) from central government to local authorities . |
| 7 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
| 8 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 9 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 10 | These account for around a fifth of live births in this group of handicaps , but due to the limited life-expectancy , they are not present in the community . |
| 11 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 12 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 13 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 14 | Voluntary schools in England account for about a third of primary schools and a fifth of secondary schools ( see Figure 6.9 ) . |
| 15 | Joint ventures account for only a small part of Hungary 's company start-up boom . |
| 16 | American and European paintings , prints and sculptures , account for only a fraction of the museum 's 100,000 objects which range from American Indian material , African art , and musical instruments , to Nabataen sculpture from Jordan , Egyptian and classical antiquities , Asian art , costumes , and 300 American , English and Continental portrait miniatures . |
| 17 | While this represents an important development in Parliament 's powers of scrutiny , non-departmental bodies account for only a small part of the work of these committees which are quite unable to exercise anything like detailed oversight . |
| 18 | However , the particles in even the most opaque Cytherean clouds account for only a tiny fraction of the atmospheric volume occupied by the cloud , and therefore the cloud particles , as on the Earth , are minor atmospheric components . |
| 19 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
| 20 | As yet , these schools account for only a small amount of annual expenditure — 3 million in 1989–90 — but the government 's expenditure plans provide for this sum to increase ( to 20 million by 1991–2 ) as more schools choose to ‘ opt out ’ of LEA control and financing ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ) . |