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be the reason or explanation for
The recession accounts for the slow retail business -
give reasons for
Can you account for all these absences?
How To Use account for In A Sentence
- The material you choose for surfaces including counters, backsplashes and floors can also account for variations in price.
- Measurement Intangible assets, such as knowledge and learning, account for a large part of a company's value.
- Genetic factors, scientists believe, account for 70% of cocaine addiction, making it as heritable as schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
- Wrist, arm or ankle fractures account for 50 percent of injuries.
- But my eyesight," I asked, "how do you account for its unusual penetrativeness? Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch
- Inbreeding may account for the fact that far fewer than half of all breeding mares foal each year.
- He was unable to account for the error.
- To account for the possibility of false negatives, a test should be done more than 3 months after exposure.
- A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world ... Boing Boing: February 9, 2003 - February 15, 2003 Archives
- Other rules would account for glide insertion and consonant sharing.