Example sentences of "[num] accounted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1982 75% of Digital installations were in Europe , where sales in 1985 accounted for 30% of global revenue . |
| 2 | Thus , in 1982 the top 100 quoted companies accounted for well over half the turnover , profit , and capital employed of the top 1000 companies , and within the top 100 , the top 10 accounted for over a quarter of turnover and capital . |
| 3 | A large proportion of this increase was also accounted for by the new offence of failing to send children to school , which in 1920 accounted for nearly one-quarter of all criminal cases . |
| 4 | As a result , remand prisoners in 1999 accounted for 22 per cent of the total population in custody , compared with just under 12 per cent in 1976 . |
| 5 | Expressed as a percentage of the gross national product ( GNP ) , total taxes in Britain in 1978 accounted for 39% of the GNP . |
| 6 | Modular catering cars retained an orthodox grill for that perennial favourite , the Great British Breakfast , which in 1987 accounted for 630,000 out of the total of 1.1 million main meals served . |
| 7 | Net immigration during the 1880s accounted for only about 17,000 of the total increase of about 49,000 , and during the last decade of the century all the net gain of about 24,000 people was accounted for by natural growth . |
| 8 | In the 1960s , the under-twenties accounted for only 5 or 6 per cent of total unemployment : in April 1985 , the figure was 15.6 per cent and this was not untypical of the early 1980s . |
| 9 | Thus reduction in pH of saliva from pH 8.2 to 7.2 accounted for a 2.2% reduction in amylase detection ( p=0.004 ) . |
| 10 | The range of problems on which solicitors are consulted is quite narrow , and of 27 categories adopted in the survey , seven accounted for over 80 per cent . |