Example sentences of "that the proportion [prep] [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |