Example sentences of "accounts for [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | This accounts for over 70 per cent of the combined reduction in annual surpluses , so if revenues fail to grow it is obvious where the axe will have to fall . |
| 2 | The other notable high cost function is ‘ connect parts ’ which accounts for over 60 per cent of the total . |
| 3 | The other notable high cost function is ‘ connect parts ’ which accounts for over 60 per cent of the total . |
| 4 | Car crime , principally by young males , accounts for nearly 30 per cent . |
| 5 | The South accounts for approximately 10 per cent of world manufacturing capacity at present , and the Report 's objective was to raise this to 25 per cent by the year 2000 . |
| 6 | While the Mediterranean accounts for just one per cent of the waters of the world 's oceans , it takes roughly 12.5 per cent of the world 's oil spills . |
| 7 | Greater affluence and improved air travel have also encouraged an increase in tourism to such an extent that it is now the world 's third largest industry and accounts for c. 12 per cent of the world 's GNP ( Geofile No 118 1988 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At present local taxation accounts for only 14 per cent . |
| 10 | Most important , however , is the rate support grant , which accounts for around 75 per cent of the total grant paid to local authorities and is paid over to individual authorities as a block sum . |
| 11 | The capital city , Jakarta , accounts for around 40 per cent of the Indonesian market but there are Guinness drinkers on many of the 13,677 islands in the archipelago and they also need to be served . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With options now available on over 160 NYSE-listed stocks , the CBOE accounts for almost 45 per cent of all US share options trading . |
| 14 | Hong Kong Telecom , which operates the colony 's domestic and international telephone system , accounts for almost 13 per cent of the Hong Kong stock market 's Hang Seng index . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Your brain accounts for about two per cent of your body weight . |
| 17 | International cargo carriage now accounts for about 75 per cent of airfreight movements . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | This accounts for about 30 per cent of all deaths from cancer ; the second largest source of cancer mortality is lung cancer for men ( 33 per cent of all deaths ) and breast cancer for women ( 20 per cent ) of all cancer deaths . |
| 20 | Low-level ozone , so called to distinguish it from the naturally forming ozone in the stratosphere which accounts for about 90 per cent of the ozone in the atmosphere , is created by the action of sunlight on oxides of nitrogen and reactive hydrocarbons ( volatile organic compounds ) emitted by vehicles and industry . |
| 21 | At present the UK accounts for about 1.5–2 per cent of research spending on superconductivity , and NCS wants this to increase to match the UK share of all research ( currently about 5 per cent of the world total ) . |