Example sentences of "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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the final , Ogawa accounted for another talented youngster , the 23-year-old Cuban , Francesco Moreno , who had earlier defeated the European champion , Rafael Kubacki , of Poland . |
| 4 | In an £8m programme AMI is doubling the resources in its psychiatric division , which accounted for just under 5 per cent of group sales last year . |
| 5 | They accounted for a tiny fraction of that year 's death toll . |
| 6 | Last year it accounted for 48% of the 178,000 cars sold in Indonesia and 57% of the 289,000 motorbikes . |
| 7 | Until recently Germany accounted for a fifth of its total sales . |
| 8 | Domestic loans a year ago accounted for only 35% of life-assurance companies ' ¥116 trillion in assets ; they expect to allocate up to 60% in the present financial year . |
| 9 | The formation of U.S. Steel in 1901 was Morgan 's biggest deal , forging together 11 firms that accounted for half America 's steel industry . |
| 10 | It received net interest and dividends in the 1990 fiscal year that accounted for more than 20% of its operating profits . |
| 11 | Holding started it with a blistering over of flat-out speed that accounted for Boycott , after which no one passed 26 and they were all out for 122 , with Croft again the leading wicket-taker . |
| 12 | Was it the prosperity of an acquisitive society prepared to forsake children , or the depression which accounted for the inter-war population trends ? |
| 13 | The three schools of Eton , Harrow and Winchester accounted for twenty governors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He wants the Slavs , who accounted for a quarter of the 4.4 million population , to stay , to help keep the wheels of industry and the civil service running . |
| 16 | Last night the Meningitis Trust , based in Stroud , Gloucestershire , welcomed moves towards a vaccine against a strain which accounted for 82 of 246 meningitis deaths in England and Wales in 1989 . |
| 17 | The SNP needs a swing of nearly 9 per cent but the polls show the Nationalists gaining ground in Scotland and Labour and the Liberals — who accounted for more than a quarter of the vote in Galloway last time — are likely to be squeezed . |
| 18 | It accounted for any number of recognisable types . |
| 19 | The UK accounted for the largest downward revision for GDP in 1991 , from a 0.5 per cent rise to a 2 per cent fall , noted Freeman . |
| 20 | When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister , in 1937 , he had as the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , a very able minister of considerable repute , which fact probably accounted for the fact that he remained as Foreign Secretary despite the clear differences of opinion that became apparent between them . |
| 21 | By the 1980s , indeed , they commonly accounted for 70 per cent of the Lake Victoria catch . |
| 22 | Out of the married women sector , who accounted for about a third of abortions in 1980 , about 3% were because of Reason Four . |
| 23 | What accounted for this stubborn resistance of nationalities to the predicted assimilation ? |
| 24 | In 1947 it accounted for 9 per cent of the secondary-school population , but in 1967 for only 5.5 per cent — made up by 1.4 per cent in Public Schools narrowly defined , and 3.9 per cent in other independent schools . |
| 25 | All through the 1960s the package holiday market had grown and by the early 1970s they accounted for nearly half of all overseas travel . |
| 26 | It is estimated that business travel ( both national and international ) accounted for 750 million trips worldwide in 1989 and was probably worth about $320 billion . |
| 27 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 28 | In 1983 HEP accounted for 27% of energy demand . |
| 29 | Taiwan accounted for 29 per cent of aggregate demand in 1991 , and this will decrease to 26 per cent by 2000 , while South Korea will show strong growth through slower movement of the manufacturing base and increased engineering polymer penetration into automotive applications . |
| 30 | The immediate causes of anger could be divided into the following categories , which accounted for the vast majority of incidents reported : |