Example sentences of "account for about [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top 100 account for about four-fifths of sales and employment . |
| 2 | Stillbirths account for about two-thirds of the perinatal deaths in Japan . |
| 3 | The appendices alone account for about half of the book . |
| 4 | Mergers account for about half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 5 | Nearly two thirds of the EOE 's clients are private investors who account for about half of the trading volume . |
| 6 | Cairns group members — which include Australia , Brazil , Argentina , Indonesia , Canada , the Philippines and Thailand — account for about one-quarter of world agricultural trade . |
| 7 | Scotch , Canadian and American whiskies combined account for about one-half of the distilled spirits sold in the United States . |
| 8 | Customs duties and related levies were more important , accounting for about one-third of government proceeds . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Most have been found in graves especially at Faversham which accounts for about two-thirds of all such beads found in England . |
| 12 | The Middle East accounts for about one-third of Western Europe 's imports , just over 10% of the USA 's , 65% of Japan 's and 39% of Latin America 's . |
| 13 | The unfair dismissal jurisdiction accounts for about three-quarters of the business of the tribunals . |
| 14 | Animal protection groups claim that the EC cosmetic industry accounts for about 50000 of the 200000 tests carried out worldwide on animals . |
| 15 | Africa 's main energy consumer is South Africa which accounts for about one-quarter of oil consumption . |
| 16 | Local Government accounts for about one-quarter of all public expenditure in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | Neither the very big and important financial futures business , which accounts for about 155 of the AFBD 's 400 members , nor the equally important oil market , is represented by the nine elected council members . |
| 18 | The average duration of use of heroin by clients of the three agencies is about one to three years , a habit length which accounts for about half to two-thirds of the users known to each agency . |
| 19 | The FDA was quoted as saying that the asthma drug Intal , which accounts for about half of Fisons ' pharmaceutical sales , was still on sale despite ‘ violations ’ only because of its medical necessity . |
| 20 | Initially , most of these sales were made through mail order specialists but retail has become a growing sector and today accounts for about half of current sales . |
| 21 | Capital expenditure on our refineries , including environmental and mandatory investments to improve product quality , now accounts for about half of BP Oil 's capital budget . |
| 22 | The latter can be very influential , since in 1981 they accounted for about four-fifths of home loans outstanding and made some two-thirds of net advances for house purchases ( table 5. 1 ) . |
| 23 | Affiliates of TNCs accounted for about one-eighth of the Third World food processing industry , and about 90 per cent of this was in the branded goods and the export sector . |
| 24 | By the end of the nineteenth century Tamils accounted for about one-third of the population in the Interior area . |
| 25 | For a small firm of solicitors in a market town , conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income . |
| 26 | For a small firm of solicitors in a market town , conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income . |