Sentence examples for a startling proportion from inspiring English sources

A startling proportion of older people report that they've experienced discrimination: 63 percent, in a study recently published in Research on Aging.

In the decades since Lucy threw her first tantrum, the anger of TV writers, and their frustration at TV's limitations, has inspired a startling proportion of TV's best comedies.

What does it mean when a candidate must spend a startling proportion of his time glad-handing the wealthiest Americans just to keep the pump primed, the campaign rolling along?

As Anthony, Daniel Boys (a contestant in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Any Dream Will Do) was simply a black hole where a performer should have been, a charisma-free zone of startling proportions.

Since then, SOCOM has grown into a combined force of startling proportions.

Inequality of wealth and income has reached startling proportions, not just in the US, where Elysium is set, or in South Africa, where Blomkamp is from, but also in Britain.

The rates of depression, PTSD and suicide are reaching startling proportions among soldiers and veterans.

Or will it assume a startling new dimension?

She sobs--a startling, terrible sound.

Hanson's broader aim is to focus attention on what seems to him a startling fact: "a small percentage of Americans," he says, are "committing violent crimes at rates far exceeding their proportion of the general population".

This is a startling development.