Sentence examples for bit of the population from inspiring English sources

Some attention to where he is headed — and where he is taking quite a bit of the population — would have been appropriate.

"The Dream Act was piecemeal; it was sort of saying: here's a little bit of the population that can go ahead, but we know that there are so many families that need this.

So I'm not going to boycott but I'm going to continue to bitch, as I have, all year round because I'm tired of seeing movies where no one is represented except a bit of the population".

Each bit of the population is randomly mutated with a fixed probability.

Although the Tories need a huge psephological swing to win, they are making gains in the parts of the country and bits of the population (such as the lower-middle and skilled working classes) that they need to conquer.In a way, Mr Cameron's background has helped.

Even so, it is still fair to say that the total of buyers and/or receivers of regional daily and local weekly newspapers represents a healthy slice of the British (and a little bit of the Irish) population.

By 2006, when Max Brooks published his novel "World War Z" (from which the movie is very loosely adapted), the worst has already happened: the zombies have been vanquished, but only after destroying a good bit of the world's population.

Hamas commands the support of a bit more than a quarter of the population, Fatah a bit less.

Literacy reached its highest levels in the late 1990's, at a little bit more than 40percentt of the population, Mr. Jaraah said -- 55percentt of men but only 23percentt of women.

In C-C communities, chemotaxis was found to result in a bit more expressed differentiation of the population size under starvation (Additional file 1 fig. S13) - Pmax/Pmin ratios are 1.77 (chemotaxis is off, Additional file 9 ) and 1.97 (chemotaxis is on, Additional file 10).

The over-85s are the fastest-growing bit of America's population, says Debra Cafaro, the boss of Ventas, a REIT with a portfolio of nursing homes and private housing communities for the elderly.