Example sentences of "they accounted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 they accounted for more than a quarter of BR 's total charter-train revenue — and the trend is ever upwards . |
| 2 | They accounted for a tiny fraction of that year 's death toll . |
| 3 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 4 | All through the 1960s the package holiday market had grown and by the early 1970s they accounted for nearly half of all overseas travel . |
| 5 | Between them , they accounted for 36 per cent of the 955 fault types , with carpenters and joiners not very far behind at 27 per cent . |
| 6 | Although the Sinhalese were the largest ethnic group in the city of Colombo , in 1911 they accounted for only forty-four per cent of the municipality 's population . |
| 7 | They accounted for nearly one-third of the £20 billion lost through absenteeism . |
| 8 | Insolvency practitioners may have been the butt for the majority of jokes in this year 's Christmas caption competition — they accounted for 20% of the record number of entries — but David Murphy , an Irish Institute industry student based at The Queen 's University of Belfast , has become this year 's triumphant winner without mentioning any of them . |
| 9 | Although the Orcs and Goblins were beaten they accounted for only a small part of Skarsnik 's horde . |
| 10 | In the first few months of this year , they accounted for 20% of those applying for asylum in the main European countries . |
| 11 | It 's the application side of the equation which the company most wants to grow , as operating systems — VME , Unix and MS-DOS — continue to show a slow decline : they accounted for 51% of software sales in 1990 . |
| 12 | At that time they accounted for nearly two thirds of our production . |
| 13 | In 1986 they accounted for 34 per cent of all admissions and 37 per cent of first admissions compared with 22 per cent and 27 per cent respectively in 1976 ( DOH 1989c ) . |
| 14 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 15 | By 1986 , they accounted for one-third of total exports of manufactured goods , mainly in transport equipment , machinery and chemicals . |
| 16 | Traditionally , the C2 and D groups were the so-called ‘ mass market ’ , and they accounted for over 60 per cent of adults until the late seventies . |
| 17 | The latter can be very influential , since in 1981 they accounted for about four-fifths of home loans outstanding and made some two-thirds of net advances for house purchases ( table 5. 1 ) . |
| 18 | They accounted for 80% of the prenatal diagnoses in mothers under 35 and 25% of such diagnoses in older women , for whom maternal age is still the most common indication although in these the use of serum screening is increasing . |
| 19 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 20 | Prior to that Meath had come off best when they accounted for Down in the 1990 league decider . |
| 21 | In total they accounted for less than 1% of the market value of government bonds outstanding at end-September , 1991 . |
| 22 | The latter , although they accounted for only one in ten ( 11.5% ) of all issues , accounted for half ( 49.8% ) of all items in need of repair . |