Example sentences of "[art] high percentage [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The resulting pellets are termed Type 90 reflecting the high percentage of hop material present compared to water and foreign matters .
2 Salsburg says this was never done for the NCI test , which throws doubt on the high percentage of compounds found to cause cancer .
3 Then , while the vapour condensed into oceans the high percentage of CO 2 would have caused a runaway greenhouse effect .
4 The largely working-class suburbs pay higher rates for shared services to make up for the high percentage of Detroit residents who default .
5 Thus the high percentage of now elderly women who never married is not related to ageing ; it is not an age effect .
6 However , the difficulties are highlighted by the high percentage of other land shown in the table , 17.4 per cent , which is largely accounted for by swamp , desert and bare rock .
7 Smith and Frawley explain this feature by suggesting that ‘ the high percentage of negative additive conjunctions … indicates a tendency toward falsification , the most consistent method of proof ’ ( 1983 : 358 ) .
8 The high percentage of enquiries to the CABx concerning consumer , trade and business affairs demonstrates the particular need for specialist advice in the field .
9 However , setting this aside and taking parent-authorisation at face value , the high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage perceived to be casual or persistent truants .
10 The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows .
11 This may indicate early referral by our rheumatology department in keeping with the high percentage of these patients in our study .
12 The decrease in mortality in the Minnessota study may relate to the high percentage of colonoscopies performed rather than the faecal occult blood testing per se and if so , lends support to the concept of endocsopic screening as proposed by Atkin .
13 Everybody , now you 've also got to accept the high percentage of having nay got a clue , eh what they 're doing , even after a week or a couple of weeks and it should n't er be here , but if you get somebody , nice er Michelle or Cathy , eh , or eh Adel
14 Many of the CDU votes went instead to the ultra right-wing Republicans who polled over seven per cent in the bigger cities with problems of unemployment , the housing shortage and a high percentage of foreign immigrants .
15 This spray-on waterproof contains a high percentage of silicone and is suitable for use on fabric , suede and leather .
16 The Plym has never fished so well and enthusiasts report catches of up to eight fish per session with a high percentage of 2 lb plus specimens .
17 ‘ We are getting a high percentage of the available jobs .
18 A cow or calf lost can reflect a high percentage of the total income from the farm .
19 Again , there was a high percentage of part-time farmers ( in Bavaria something like 48% ) but most of them had urban employment as opposed to rural off-farm employment , as found in the other countries .
20 There is general agreement that Chlamydia trachomatis is the pathogen responsible for a high percentage of cases of NSU , but the best isolation rates still remain below 70 per cent of cases and are more usually in the region of 40 to 50 per cent .
21 A high percentage of the homosexuals who are found to be positive , practise fellatio and , in particular , allowed ejaculation to take place in the mouth and then swallowed the semen .
22 For numerous studies have shown that a high percentage of the population have committed criminal offences , in particular high proportions of juveniles , and it is difficult to believe that they are all different or abnormal .
23 A higher proportion of female labour , almost 80% of a total of 140 , was possible on the machining than on the forging , and a high percentage of the female staff were part-time workers .
24 Calor Gas and the electricity companies have found areas with a high percentage of people ‘ employed in agriculture ’ are almost certain not to be served by mains gas .
25 Quite a high percentage of bar codes could only be read in after several attempts , and a not insignificant percentage simply would not read in at all .
26 Even where food is plentiful , societies accustomed to a diet containing a high percentage of cereal foods , fruit and vegetables , all rich in natural fibre , do not become overweight .
27 The best sources of all are those foods which have a high percentage of fibre and tend also to be consumed in reasonably large quantities … without providing too many calories , if you are slimming !
28 The fact that the area is an expanding and highly mobile community with a high percentage of nominal church-goers means that it is relatively easy to bring them into church services .
29 A high percentage of businesses fail because of the collapse of a major customer or a specialist supplier .
30 And a high percentage of these companies died before their second or third birthday .
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