Example sentences of "for about [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain and in the Netherlands it accounts For about 10 per cent of the total consumption of sugar , in Ireland for 8 per cent , in Germany and France for about 5 per cent . |
| 2 | In 1990 , trade with Asia and the West accounted for about 5 per cent ( approximately US$120,000,000 ) of Mongolia 's total trade . |
| 3 | The thirty or so largest groups accounted for about seventy per cent of the total population in the 1948 census . |
| 4 | In Britain and in the Netherlands it accounts For about 10 per cent of the total consumption of sugar , in Ireland for 8 per cent , in Germany and France for about 5 per cent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Manufacturing output increased by around 10 per cent , and manufactures now accounted for about 80 per cent of all exports ( compared with about 33 per cent in 1980 ) . |
| 9 | Altogether , United 's brands account for about 4.5 per cent of all beer and 15 per cent of lager sales . |
| 10 | Moors accounted for about five per cent of the population of Sinhala Sri Lanka . |
| 11 | International cargo carriage now accounts for about 75 per cent of airfreight movements . |
| 12 | The evidence for this is derived from reported clinical and autopsy data in which macrovascular disease accounts for about 75 per cent of all deaths in diabetics , compared to approximately 50 per cent in the non-diabetic population ( Ganda , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | Interbank deposits regularly account for about 70 per cent of the market 's gross size . |
| 14 | The former Spurs full-back , whose Wimbledon team were among the originators of the direct approach , complained : ‘ Leeds hoofed the ball about 50 times further than we ever did and relied on John Lukic knocking it on to Lee Chapman 's head for about 70 per cent of their attacks . ’ |
| 15 | Visitors from the UK account for about 70 per cent of Scotland 's tourism market . |
| 16 | Tass said Ukraine , which depends on Russia for about 70 per cent of its gas needs , owed 165 billion roubles ( $286 million ) for gas supplied up to February 19 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nitrous oxide is also responsible for about six per cent of the greenhouse effect . |
| 19 | Walker is British Steel 's largest single customer , accounting for about 7 per cent of its total output of 13.1 million tonnes . |
| 20 | Your brain accounts for about two per cent of your body weight . |
| 21 | Broadleaved trees now account for about 46 per cent of all planting , encouraged by higher grant rates . |
| 22 | The harsh measures of the transitory period are expected to lower the standard of living for about 20 per cent of the population . |
| 23 | Nuclear power then accounted for about 20 per cent of total CEGB generation capacity . |
| 24 | It was known that fees in secondary schools would shortly be abolished , that grammar-school education would be developed for about 20 per cent of the population , and assumed that secondary modern schools would be provided for the rest . |
| 25 | Private investors account , on average , for about 20 per cent of the equity of privatised companies — scarcely more than the market norm . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Of the instrumental daily living activities jobs involving cleaning pose problems for about 20 per cent , while cooking is a problem for less than 10 per cent . |
| 28 | These foreign-owned firms were responsible for about 20 per cent of UK manufacturing output — a slightly lower proportion than in France , West Germany or Italy , but becoming more diverse as investment from the EC , Japan and other industrialized countries increased while that of the USA declined . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |