Sentence examples for it constitutes only about from inspiring English sources

Although agriculture employs about four-fifths of the country's workforce, it constitutes only about one-fifth of Mozambique's gross domestic product.

In both patients and controls it constituted only about 40% during the early phase and then gradually increased to around 50% during both passive and active motion.

Although the NIPC/PDC population constitutes only about 0.1% of the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), each cell has the capacity to produce as many as 109 IFN-α molecules in 12 hours.

However, transposons constitute only about 0.7% of the C. merolae genome (by assuming that the average gene size of RT- and transposase-related elements are 4 kbp and 3 kbp, respectively).

Protein-Cr-DNA cross-links constitute only about 0.1% of total adducts immediately after Cr VI) exposures, but their relative amounts are likely higher at later postexposure times due to delayed formation 67) and slower repair 66) relative to those of small Cr-DNA adducts.

According to this analysis (data not showed), Δ κ ¯ i n s (2 ) is positive but its absolute value constitutes only about 10% of that of Δ κ ¯ i n s (1 ) so that on a semiquantitative level Δ κ ¯ i n s (2 ) can be neglected.

In this context it is interesting to note that although the adult human brain constitutes only about 2% of body weight, it consumes about 20% of the body's oxygen and glucose for the production of energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) [ 3].

Although DHA in the aqueous humour constitutes only about 10% of total reduced ascorbic acid, it is DHA which appears to be preferentially transported into the lens [ 45].

Lack of forests, permanent meadows, or pastures places a heavy burden on the available arable land, which constitutes only about 3 percent of the total area.

Some nine-tenths of the population lives within a narrow strip of land along the U.S.-Canadian border an area that constitutes only about one-tenth of Canada's total land area.

Federal support for fundamental plant science research has been even less: The amount awarded on a competitive basis to academic and research institutions constitutes only about 2% of extramural spending for life sciences research ($382 million out of $17 billion in 2005).