Example sentences of "for [adv] 50 per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the while public expenditure was rising with direct and transfer payments together accounting for nearly 50 per cent of GDP by the mid 1970s . |
| 2 | In the years between the Restoration of Charles II and the middle of the eighteenth century , textile trades provided employment for almost 50 per cent of the freemen . |
| 3 | Time deposits form the largest item , accounting for around 50 per cent of the total . |
| 4 | Production for the international market is concentrated in the most powerful capitalist state : the United States accounts for around 50 per cent of world grain exports . |
| 5 | Primary and extractive industries ( now accounting for over 50 per cent of gross social product ) are displacing manufacturing industries in relative importance , as investment is harnessed to the tasks of developing energy resources , ore and mineral deposits . |
| 6 | By 1981 328 companies accounted for over 50 per cent of manufacturing employment , and a mere 66 companies for 30 per cent . |
| 7 | Of this total , UK company securities accounted for over 50 per cent , and overseas securities , by far the greater part of which are also company shares , accounted for 13 per cent . |
| 8 | 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 . |