Example sentences of "accounted for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the growth of Brighton accounted for some of this expansion , most of the burden fell on an economic base too narrow to cope adequately , there being few alternatives to agriculture . |
| 2 | ICL Plc has been been ringing the changes , not only with boardroom shuffles ( CI No 2,125 ) , but with a push towards what it calls more ‘ autonomous business groupings ’ and a greater emphasis on software and services , the area which accounted for some 60% of UK sales in 1992 . |
| 3 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 4 | The major spending services of the Metropolitan counties ( police , fire , public transport and probation ) , which accounted for some 70 per cent of their expenditure , were transferred to such joint boards ( notably Fire and Civil Defence Boards , Police Boards , Transport Boards ) . |
| 5 | EC Industry Ministers failed on Dec. 22 , 1989 , to reach agreement on measures to liberalize the systems for public procurement in the EC , regarded as one of the most important aspects of the single market process , since it accounted for some 15 per cent of total gross national product ( GNP ) of the 12 member countries . |
| 6 | The economic problems of Trinidad and Tobago were , however , temporarily relieved by the Gulf crisis which boosted the petroleum sector which accounted for some 80 per cent of foreign exchange earnings . |
| 7 | The overwhelming majority of Serbs , who accounted for some 31 per cent of the population , boycotted the referendum on the grounds that they had already made clear their preference in local referendums for Bosnia-Hercegovina remaining within Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | University Statistical Record figures indicate a decline in the financial priority of the library from 1980/81 , when the library accounted for some 4% of institutional expenditure , to 1989/90 , when the expenditure was 2.89% . |
| 9 | Neither was there the more deadly flak which confronted the interdiction or pre-Invasion attacks on railway centres , which accounted for some of our best PFF crews . |