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The phrase "accounted for only" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a number that is a portion of a total. For example, "The sales from the west coast accounted for only 10% of the total."
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The last two accounted for only a few cases.
Donations accounted for only 8percentt of the growth.
Consumer health care accounted for only 18percentt.
Last year, it accounted for only 13percentt.
The Commonwealth connection accounted for only part of the transformation.
But he found that they accounted for only 25percentt of the warming since 1900.
By then, however, satellite interception accounted for only a small part of the network traffic.
In 1904, cigarettes accounted for only 5percentt of the domestic tobacco market.
For men, such occupations accounted for only 20% of employment gains.
Latin America, the Middle East and Africa together accounted for only 5%.
Counting directors alone, women accounted for only 9% – the same figure as in 1998.
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