Example sentences of "accounted for [adv] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the K1,200 million recurrent budget , debt servicing accounted for slightly less than one-third . |
| 2 | In 1991 , another bumper year , the bonuses accounted for as much as 80 per cent of the money earned by brokers , traders and investment bankers . |
| 3 | In the past , IBM sales have accounted for as much as 30% of the Marlborough , Massachusetts-based firm 's business . |
| 4 | Nor must one forget the imperial estates , which could have accounted for as much as fifteen per cent of the 1and , ii for which there is evidence in Britain . |
| 5 | Some companies never go to the new issues market , and it has been calculated that ‘ in the past decade , in no single year have ordinary share issues accounted for as much as 10 per cent of the sources of capital funds , and the average has been less than half that amount ’ . |
| 6 | President Mauno Koivisto of Finland visited Moscow on June 24-25 for talks with Soviet politicians including President Gorbachev and Russian President-elect Boris Yeltsin ; talks centred on trade , the Soviet Union having accounted for as much as 25 per cent of Finland 's foreign exports in the 1980s but for only 12 per cent in 1990 and an expected 5 per cent in 1991 . |