Similar words: account, accounting, on account of, accountability, take into account, country, county, count on. Meaning: v. 1. be the reason or explanation for 2. give reasons for.
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31. His boss called him to account for failing to meet the deadline.
32. She modestly suggests that "sex, or at any rate gender, may account for the difference".
33. North American sales account for 40% of the worldwide market.
34. It will take her fifteen years in prison to account for such horrible crime.
35. I'd like to open a bank account for my son.
36. The social services account for a substantial part of public spending.
37. Oil exports account for nearly 80% of the country's foreign earnings.
38. Catering may now account for close on a quarter of pub turnover.
39. How do you account for the fact that the box has disappeared?
40. How do you account for all the accidents in series?
41. The President and the President alone must account for his government's reforms.
42. How do you account for losing five games in a row?
43. I couldn't account for the lump in my throat as I told him the news.
44. Six big brewers account for about 75% of total beer sales in the UK.
45. Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?
46. We must account for every penny we spend during a business trip.
47. We have to account for every penny we spend on business trips.
48. The balance in our account for June includes £5000 carried over from May.
49. Together they account for less than five per cent of the population.
50. I want you to account for each sum of the money you spent.
51. The mate observed regretfully that he could not account for that young fellow's whims.
52. But a fuller account for whom?
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53. Open a bank account for yourself.
54. And house burglaries and car thefts account for more than half all crimes reported.
55. As you can see from Table 16.2, they account for a tiny fraction of total assets.
56. The company said it will write off $ 80 million in inventory to account for the expected lower selling prices.
57. The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter's departure from its initially predicted orbit.
58. Social Security benefits are adjusted to account for inflation and are guaranteed for life.
59. The national brewers account for more than 90 percent of total lager production.
60. The problem, therefore, was to account for the apparent motion of the heavenly bodies given these two assumptions.
More similar words: account, accounting, on account of, accountability, take into account, country, county, count on, count out, counter, discount, counterpart, developing countries, accompany, tobacco, according, mount, accord with, accommodate, according to, accomplishment, amount to, council, accomplishments, counselor, in accordance with, counseling, round and round, but for, act for.