Example sentences of "they account for [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They account for £734 million , of which more than £400 million is in UK-based funds . |
| 2 | In the United States , for example they account for 7% of all record sales ( compared with 1% in 1975 ) , thus exceeding sales of jazz and classical music . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the first few months of this year , they accounted for 20% of those applying for asylum in the main European countries . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |