Sentence examples for backgrounds got from inspiring English sources

By 2008, a survey showed 70% of those in Balsall Heath felt they could influence what happened in their area, and 86% of Balsall Heath's ethnically mixed population (said to be 57% Asian, 24% white and 10% black) said they felt people with different backgrounds got on well together.

The word spread in her local community, school and mosque and at the first netball session she ran, 35 women from different backgrounds got together to play.

"I agree we have got to make sure people from all backgrounds get into the BBC.

For students who come from less privileged backgrounds, getting to university is already a hurdle.

Meanwhile, children from less privileged backgrounds get the rap without any opera.

We also want to open up equality so that kids from the most disadvantaged backgrounds get access to more funding.

Through his charity work with the NASA Millennium Award Project, Jayson helped children from disadvantaged backgrounds get into science courses at college and university.

Even the standardized tests used for college admissions, like the S.A.T.s, are essentially proxies for income: students from better-off backgrounds get higher scores.

It's important to train more British doctors and I also really like his idea to help more people from disadvantaged backgrounds get into medicine.

To put it simply: two years' worth of undergraduate admissions figures show that UNIQ has been hugely successful helping students from underrepresented backgrounds get into Oxford.

Today, 86% of Newham residents, well above the national average, believe people from different backgrounds get along well in their area.