Example sentences of "this accounted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work by Chris Gordon on elderly people surveyed by the New Survey of London Life and Labour in 1929–31 showed that only 7.3 per cent of the 2,286 elderly people in his sample were in receipt of any direct financial support from their family , and this accounted for only 2 per cent of the overall income of this elderly population ( as shown in Table 3.1 ) . |
| 2 | This accounted for the distrust felt for Great Britain in more autocratic states . |
| 3 | This accounted for Washington 's disparaging view of various ‘ zones of peace ’ advocated by Soviet leaders in the 1950s and 1960s , which were intended for regions where the Western states remained militarily preponderant . |
| 4 | Wainfleet had not avoided the slur that Wickham was giving more attention to his private life than his professional and this accounted for the lack of progress in apprehending MacQuillan 's killer . |
| 5 | This accounted for many derivations that are not simply inflections ( e.g. happy , happiness , happily ) . |
| 6 | How is this accounted for ? |
| 7 | In 1986 this accounted for nearly 12 per cent of revenue raised by expenditure taxes and 4 per cent of total government revenue ( see Godfrey and Maynard 1988 ) . |
| 8 | This accounted for 13 per cent of total exports , making France Scotland 's second most important market after Germany . |