Example sentences of "accounted for [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesbian representation accounted for just 0.06 per cent of total television and radio output — 25 minutes out of 688 hours of broadcasting . |
| 2 | The fact that Scottish-sourced network TV accounted for just 1.5 per cent of the national output and 0.8 per cent of the radio programming suggested to the task force it seems , that there should have been more money available for commissioning north of the border . |
| 3 | By 1981 328 companies accounted for over 50 per cent of manufacturing employment , and a mere 66 companies for 30 per cent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The importance of manufacturing increased steadily from the beginning of the Meiji period but until the late 1920s agriculture accounted for over 25 per cent of net domestic production . |
| 6 | Overtime pay has accounted for approximately 6 per cent of average earnings since the mid-1970s and this too varies with firm size due to differences in the length of scheduled working hours . |
| 7 | At the end of 1988 UK and overseas ordinary shares accounted for around 67 per cent of total net assets ( Table 7.8 ) . |
| 8 | In the period 1965–83 , encouraged by tax incentives , 470 cattle ranches with an average size of 23 000 ha were established in Amazonia which , according to Repetto ( 1988a ) , accounted for c. 30 per cent of the total deforestation apparent from remotely sensed data collected between 1973 and 1983 . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , therefore , whereas in 1949–50 means-tested benefits accounted for only 12.7 per cent of the social security budget , they now command over a quarter of all social security expenditure ( Reform of Social Security : Background Papers , Cmnd. 9519 , pp. 28–9 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ National ’ brewers accounted for only 18 per cent of all beer production , and their brands were nearly all bottled ales , since these were more easily transported and had a longer life than cask-conditioned draught beer . |
| 11 | Part-time workers accounted for only 7 per cent of the employed population in France and between 10 and 12 per cent in the former FRG during the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 12 | In 1990 around 58 per cent of exports went to EC countries and 74 per cent of imports came from the EC , while the country 's five EFTA partners accounted for only 7 per cent of trade . |
| 13 | In 1981 , the union 's position was even weaker : UMW mines accounted for only 44 per cent of national coal production ; again , there were large stockpiles of coal ; and generally , there was a more conservative , anti-union climate : |
| 14 | Of world biotechnology patents recently documented , patents obtained by Europeans accounted for only 19 per cent of the total compared to 41 per cent for the US and 36 per cent for Japan . |
| 15 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 16 | Since 1979 there has been a loss of over 1.5 million manufacturing jobs ; by 1987 manufacturing accounted for only 22 per cent of the British workforce , ‘ a figure more typical of countries with large fishing or agricultural sectors ’ . |
| 17 | Adult males accounted for only 17.7 per cent of employees in cotton mills in Lancashire in 1816 and 18.4 per cent in Notting-hamshire . |
| 18 | It has been estimated that in a narrow clinical sense the Famine probably accounted for under 15 per cent of the extra mortality recorded at the height of the disaster in Saratov in 1921–2 : but in a broader sense , including deaths due to severe malnutrition and other causes , the Famine contributed to most of the rise in mortality that took place before the 1922 harvest . |
| 19 | In 1970 building societies accounted for almost 35 per cent of total personal sector liquid savings . |
| 20 | Czechoslovakia 's trade with EFTA countries accounted for almost 9 per cent of total exports in 1991 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | In 1990 , trade with Asia and the West accounted for about 5 per cent ( approximately US$120,000,000 ) of Mongolia 's total trade . |
| 23 | The thirty or so largest groups accounted for about seventy per cent of the total population in the 1948 census . |
| 24 | Moors accounted for about five per cent of the population of Sinhala Sri Lanka . |
| 25 | Nuclear power then accounted for about 20 per cent of total CEGB generation capacity . |
| 26 | These accounted for about 60 per cent of local jobs in 1981 , but only half that figure by 1987 . |
| 27 | This reveals that these companies accounted for about 40 per cent of manufacturing industry 's net assets , employment , and inward direct investment from overseas ( excluding oil company investment ) , 40–50 per cent of visible exports , 70 per cent of expenditure on industrial scientific research and development , and about 75 per cent of direct investment by UK companies ( excluding oil ) in manufacturing overseas . |
| 28 | The advance in age at marriage , and in its popularity , accounted for about 30 per cent of the increase in annual fertility rates from the 1930s to the 1950s which comprised the ‘ baby boom ’ . |