Example sentences of "continue to account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet this high-tech portfolio looks strange beside pots and pans , which continue to account for 28% of its sales . |
| 2 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 3 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 4 | Although the gas industry retained the larger market share for cooking overall , more than a quarter of consumers had electric cookers by 1958 and electricity for cooking continued to account for a fifth of domestic electricity sales . |
| 5 | Although the peasantry continued to account for over 80 per cent of the population , discontent among the urban poor and especially the industrial working class was of scarcely less significance than the unrest in the countryside . |
| 6 | It found that " industrial production actually declined , as the steel sector , beset by falling world demand and heightened competition from abroad , was one of the weakest spots of the economy " ( although it continued to account for 7-8 per cent of GDP ) . |
| 7 | But the works of Lloyd Webber himself continued to account for some 85 per cent of the group 's earnings . |