Example sentences of "[art] proportion of [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all cell types , the proportion of apoptotic cells after 48 and 72h was less than 4% when cultured in DMEM , 10%FCS . |
| 2 | The proportion of stated smokers among male hypertensives fell from an initial 17 of the 25 to eight , and in controls from 17 of 25 to 10 . |
| 3 | With regard to readability , if the proportion of personal pronouns in the text is 5 to 10% , this program thinks the tone is sufficiently warm and friendly . |
| 4 | While the proportion of other women at work has remained between 40 and 60 per cent , the early decades ( Table 3.5 ) showed 10 per cent or less of married females at work , compared with a recent ( 1988 ) figure of 55.7 per cent who were economically active . |
| 5 | In contrast , the proportion of all widows aged 65 or more increased from 38 per cent to nearly 60 per cent , while their numbers rose from 386,000 in 1871 to 1,529,000 in 1951 , doubling between 1871 and 1921 , and almost doubling again during the following thirty years , reflecting increased longevity amongst women . |
| 6 | The proportion of all families with dependent children headed by a lone parent increased from 8% in 1971 to 19% in 1990 . |
| 7 | As can be seen from table 6.6 , the proportion of all families with dependent children which are headed by a single parent increased from just over 8 per cent in 1971 to just under 12 per cent in 1981 . |
| 8 | The proportion of all cases of trisomy 21 diagnosed cytogenetically before birth rose from 321/1077 ( 30% ) in 1989 to 423/1115 ( 38% ) in 1991 . |
| 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 . |
| 10 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 11 | The proportion of Labour identifiers in the electorate has fallen steadily since Labour 's last clear-cut victory in 1966 to scarcely one voter in three . |
| 12 | It too uses a partly graphical presentation of results after the analysis is complete , and while it still references factors such as average sentence and word length , also included is the proportion of certain types of word such as personal pronouns . |
| 13 | Equally , the proportion of temporary workers in sales and lower grade personal service occupations " with part-time jobs is high ( 81 and 85 per cent respectively ) . |
| 14 | There can be little doubt that liberalization ( by which is meant effective restriction of the colonial trade to a larger number of Spanish merchants than under the old system ) greatly increased the volume and the proportion of Spanish goods in the legal trade , and therefore acted as a direct stimulant to industrial and commercial revival . |
| 15 | There has been a tendency for the proportion of non-civil servants in the membership to be reduced . |
| 16 | Establish the proportion of internal/external authors in EJB . |
| 17 | Establish the proportion of internal/external authors in EJB . |
| 18 | Among clearing banks ( the big high-street names ) and insurance companies the proportion of public-school products among directors actually rose from half in 1957 to three-quarters in 1970 . |
| 19 | Twice the proportion of incontinent women aged 60 or over attributed their incontinence to childbirth than women non-sufferers in that age group ( 16% ( 22 ) v 7% ( 52 ) ) thought likely . |
| 20 | The proportion of Roman Catholics in the most senior posts rose to 25% , but in the force as a whole the proportion dropped from 11% to 4% . |
| 21 | The proportion of married women in employment increased from 47 per cent in 1971 to 60 per cent in 1987 . |
| 22 | In temperate plants , it has been shown that the proportion of two-coloured displays of fruits discovered by birds is greater than that of monocoloured , but that the consumption after discovery is greater when the distinguishing features are ‘ natural ’ , e.g. representing different stages of ripeness , rather than differences due , for example , to artificial painting . |
| 23 | The proportion of female members of political parties and of local soviets in these republics is considerably lower than it is elsewhere in the former USSR ( although in 1988 , ironically , the first woman regional party first secretary for many years was appointed in Uzbekistan ) . |
| 24 | It seems safe to predict ( without actuarial analysis ) that the proportion of female members of the profession will continue to grow rapidly . |
| 25 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 26 | Supporters of the legislation point out however that the number of car accident deaths is continuing to decline , even though the proportion of small cars on America 's roads is increasing . |
| 27 | In almost all cases this led to an increase in recall ( the ratio of the number of relevant records retrieved to the total number of relevant records in the catalogue ) without decrease in precision ( the proportion of relevant records in the retrieved set ) . |
| 28 | Conversely , if subject heading terms are too broad , a search will produce high recall , but subject scatter will reduce the proportion of relevant documents in the retrieved sample . |
| 29 | 1978 ) , it was shown that , in 1976 , the proportion of elderly heads of household with net incomes at or below the supplementary-benefit rate increased from 25 per cent at age 65–69 to 47 per cent at age 80 and over . |
| 30 | The proportion of missing values on the five scales ranged from 0.2% to 3.1% and was generally less than 2% . |