Sentence examples for accounting for half from inspiring English sources

Provigil sales were about $1 billion in 2008, accounting for half of Cephalon's revenue.

It has made automakers rich, accounting for half of Ford's profit by the late 1990's.

Tui has 13 hotels in Sharm el-Sheikh, with the resort accounting for half of its business in Egypt.

But, with foreigners accounting for half of all trades through July, that is no longer the case.

There were 385 such deaths last year and 378 in 2000, with pedestrians accounting for half the total each year.

The cause of death profiles were similar in both settings with infectious diseases, haemorrhage and malaria accounting for half the deaths.

We focus on the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, which is the smallest and most abundant microbe in ocean ecosystems — sometimes accounting for half the total photosynthetic biomass.

Twenty countries, accounting for half the world's output, have been or are in recession, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, told Labour Party delegates on September 30th.

With a pension accounting for half of their retirement income, the couple may have more room for error than other retirees.

According to HSBC, Asia continued to be an "absolute powerhouse" for the bank's growth, accounting for half of pretax profit in the second quarter.

Global steel manufacturing has soared, with China accounting for half the world's production, compared with 15percentt in 2000, although the United States imports relatively little from China.