Example sentences of "is a high proportion " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a higher proportion of fluency work including , for instance , coverage of short answer forms , the uses of ‘ get ’ , and other idiomatic expressions . |
| 2 | There is a higher proportion of fluency work with a greater emphasis on vocabulary development . |
| 3 | There is a higher proportion of people from poor rural backgrounds in prisons than in the general population . |
| 4 | There is thus a broad spatial division of labour within which control functions are concentrated in London , scientific and technical functions concentrated in the south and east , and production , while it occurs throughout the country , is a higher proportion of economic activity in the regions of the north and west . |
| 5 | The Government spend about £3 billion a year on research and development , which is a higher proportion of gross domestic product than Japan spends , but I hear what my hon. Friend says . |
| 6 | In the first place , there is a higher proportion of owner occupation and private furnished renting . |
| 7 | That is a higher proportion of beds in relation to population than in England . |
| 8 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 9 | It is fair to assume also that there is a high proportion of black sportsmen who come from single-parent families , but , in absolute terms , there are huge numbers of black kids who are reared in broken homes who do not enter sport in any serious way . |
| 10 | OUP has the Oxford Dictionary of Business English , but from the one page I have seen there is a high proportion of defining as opposed to explaining , as in ‘ AAR ( Against all Risks-insurance/shipping ) ’ . |
| 11 | There is a high proportion of jobs that overlap and there is relatively simple division of labour . |
| 12 | Women are disproportionately represented among income support recipients for two main reasons : first , there is a high proportion of elderly and disabled women in the population ; and second , lone parenthood is increasing and the proportion of lone parents dependent upon state benefits has also increased ( by 1986 about 40 per cent of the income of lone parents came from state benefits ) . |
| 13 | There is a high proportion of female employees , many part time and temporary workers , unusual shift systems and , particularly since the change in the Scottish Licensing Laws , a significant amount of unsocial hours within the working week . |