Example sentences of "a large proportion " in BNC.
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| 1 | A larger proportion of Labour supporters favour a deal with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 2 | The random and unrestrained building of pre-planning times is over , of course , and the National Trust owns a larger proportion of the coastline than any other part of the country . |
| 3 | The Mediterranean countries employ a larger proportion of their population in agriculture , they have much lower per capita incomes and less well-developed manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 4 | The specialist team closed a larger proportion of cases within six months , and the specialist worker kept open a strikingly larger number of cases beyond nine months . |
| 5 | This would be represented in the diagram by moving from point A to point C. The converse is true because if a school loses pupils ( represented by moving from point A to point B ) it is not that the school spends any more on fixed costs but because of the reduction in pupils and hence funding , fixed costs take a larger proportion of the available budget . |
| 6 | However , if age specific rates of disability remain constant , average levels of disability are likely to rise as a larger proportion of the elderly population reaches extreme old age . |
| 7 | Poorer households are known to spend a larger proportion of their income on essentials such as food and fuel for heating . |
| 8 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 9 | The British Government should press for all agricultural development plans , which are likely to be broadened in their scope and available to a larger proportion of ( particularly smaller ) farms , to be agreed with conservation authorities before they can be adopted . |
| 10 | Many schemes are funded for three to five years and , although some tapering mechanisms may allow continued but limited funding thereafter , in the long run local authorities may have to bear a larger proportion of total expenditure if schemes are to continue . |
| 11 | It is interesting to compare the weights used in 1975 with those used in 1985 : note , for example , that a smaller proportion of household expenditure went on food and tobacco in 1985 than in 1975 , but a larger proportion went on housing and transport and vehicles . |
| 12 | Harold ( Never Had It So Good ) Macmillan , Minister of Housing and Local Government , introduced a scheme in 1954 to help people buy houses through building societies who were allowed to advance a larger proportion of the price , now rapidly soaring , than hitherto . |
| 13 | Lose weight more quickly than ever before , because a larger proportion of the calories you consume will remain undigested ; |
| 14 | The second difficulty is the inevitable paradox that lenders with the strictest criteria can afford to offer cheaper credit than those whose looser criteria demand higher rates to pay either for a larger proportion of bad debt or ( more often ) for costlier instalment collection procedures . |
| 15 | The Equal Opportunities Commission ( 1980 ) found three times as many women as men were carers but a later study of informal care discovered a larger proportion of male carers ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | When the six LEAs in the Rampton survey were studied again for the Swann Report , a larger proportion of Afro-Caribbean pupils were obtaining academic qualifications : the percentage of such pupils obtaining five or more higher grades at O level and CSE and those obtaining one or more passes at A level had doubled in the period from 1979 to 1982 . |
| 17 | Thus , the achievements of white working class pupils — children whose parents are manual workers — are much closer to those of Afro-Caribbean pupils , and it is arguable that the findings of Rampton , Swann and similar investigations can be explained by the fact that a larger proportion of Afro-Caribbeans than whites are working class , and are likely to be earning less and living in worse housing than whites , as documented earlier in this chapter ( Brown , 1984 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | These generally had a larger proportion of advertising , and the higher the circulation , the greater was the amount of classified rather than display ads , which was the opposite of the nationals . |
| 19 | Tadpole currently spends a larger proportion of hardware research and development money on board design , not on the Sparcbook , although most of its software development efforts go into the notebook version of Unix . |
| 20 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 21 | A larger proportion of labour with continuous tenure means a significant rise in labour costs to firms , and over the past decade Japanese companies have either found ways of flattening the wage profile or have ‘ encouraged ’ labour transfers into subsidiaries or satellite firms . |
| 22 | It goes without saying that old birds can , equally , be used for potting , but they are much less delicate , need very long slow and thorough cooking , a larger proportion of fat ham ( or pickled pork but not smoked bacon ) , and must be carefully drained of their cooking juices before they are prepared for chopping and pounding , otherwise sediment seeps through , collects at the bottom of the little jars and causes mould . |
| 23 | So , not only are more families drawing family credit than FIS , but a larger proportion of this group pays tax and insurance on each additional £1 of earnings , as well as losing part of the family credit payment . |
| 24 | The self-employed form a larger proportion of the workforce in services ( 8.2 per cent in 1975 ) compared with manufacturing ( 1.6 per cent ) . |
| 25 | They found that of those males who reported acute sickness or chronic sickness without any limiting effect on activity , a larger proportion of the lower than the higher socio-economic groups consulted their doctors ; there was no consistent trend in the case of the females . |
| 26 | This would be a severe difficulty in the United Kingdom , where a larger proportion of the population would be excluded than in the United States ; indeed the method is probably suitable only in countries where a very substantial number of people own telephones . |
| 27 | However , women receive lower redundancy payments than men and a larger proportion of them are ineligible for payments altogether . |
| 28 | During 1988–91 , 38% of infants were referred to our hospital after pyloric stenosis had been diagnosed , a larger proportion than during 1974–7 ( 13% ) . |
| 29 | A poll tax takes a larger proportion of poor people 's pay , but does least ‘ damage ’ to the ‘ efficient ’ allocation of labour . |
| 30 | According to the doctor : ‘ It ( Montpellier Pleasure Gardens ) furnished a larger proportion of stinking gas than any other well in town . ’ |