factual account

collocation in English

meaningsoffactualandaccount

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factual
adjective
uk
/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
us
/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
using or consisting ...
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account
noun
uk
/əˈkaʊnt/
us
/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition offactualandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffactual account

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Philosophical introductory material leads to six central chapters giving a highlyfactualaccountof growth, production, grazing ecology, sward management and animal husbandry.
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Thefactualaccountis transformed into an individual narrative through which the narrator defines the self and others.
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It is, by and large, a narrative andfactualaccount, focusing upon institutional developments, largely reliant on printed primary and secondary sources, but using some telling manuscript material too.
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It is always a matter of concern when programmes purporting to give afactualaccountof events seem to omit details that might be relevant.
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He said himself it was afactualaccount.
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In a sense, it was afactualaccountof a snapshot for 1993.
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I tried to put afactualaccountin.
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Is that not a parliamentary andfactualaccountof what could have happened?
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I am simply going to give afactualaccountof what happened.
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This document provides afactualaccountof the fuel shortage, the remedial measures taken, and the further economies required from industry and the public.
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I shall therefore begin by trying to give the bestfactualaccountin my own words.
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I am giving afactualaccountof the technical nature of what happened to those switches and links.
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The book is afactualaccountof what happened.
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He gives a purelyfactualaccountof what has arisen.
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That concludes thefactualaccountof the highlights of my involvement.
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Afactualaccountof the timescales of the operation follows.
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He gave us afactualaccount, borough by borough.
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It is afactualaccountof the problems facing us, of what has been clone and of what needs to be done.
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It is afactualaccount, as one would expect, but necessarily it was most incomplete.
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In view of the widespread reports of confusion from all around the country today, can he give afactualaccountof what is happening?
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