Example sentences of "that the proportion of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comment is made that the proportion of accidents in school is high , considering the relatively small part of total time spent there . |
| 2 | which is such that the proportion of members of your sex who can comply is considerably smaller than the corresponding proportion of members of the opposite sex ; |
| 3 | NIN ( 29 November 1987 ) claims that the proportion of Albanians in Kosovo has now reached 85 per cent , which would imply that the proportion of Serbs and Montenegrins has fallen to about 11 per cent . |
| 4 | A new survey says , rather precisely , that the proportion of Indians below the poverty line fell from 48.3% in 1977–78 to 29.2% in 1987–88 . |
| 5 | We can now introduce another meaning for that verb ‘ to explain ’ : in this situation , many researchers say that the proportion of females in a job ‘ explains ’ the relationship between the status of the job and absenteeism , in the sense that it accounts for it entirely . |
| 6 | The annual General Household Survey has only included questions on cohabitation since 1979 and estimates suggest that the proportion of women aged 18 to 49 years cohabiting has doubled from 3 per cent in 1979 to 6 per cent in 1987 . |
| 7 | which is such that the proportion of people of the victim 's racial group who can comply is considerably smaller than the proportion of the people not of that group who can comply ; |
| 8 | It has always been puzzling enough that the proportion of men in gynaecology is higher than in any virtually any other specialty , as if detachment were an advantage in this field . |
| 9 | Thus the Newsom Report , which examined secondary schooling for children of average or less than average ability , concluded that the proportion of schools in slum areas which were seriously inadequate was twice as high as the proportion of all schools in the sample . |