5 sentences with 'accounted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word accounted and other words derived from it.
• « The drop in homicides in New York City alone accounted for one-third of the nationwide decline since 1990, but other cities have also made great strides in the war on crime. »
• « The Italian cities, clustered in the north, accounted for about 10% of Italy's total population. »
• « In general, the nobility as a whole accounted for no more than 4% of the total population (with peculiar exceptions such as Poland and Hungary, which had large numbers of nobles, most of whom were barely richer than peasants). »
• « He managed to drag one of his comrades out of the burning vehicle just as another fighting vehicle accounted for the enemy tank. »
• « Many American miners, often profligate, resented their presence and discriminated against them, believing that the Chinese, who accounted for about 8% of the nearly 300,000 who arrived, deprived them of the opportunity to earn a living. »