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Mean birth rates were derived from empirical fecundity data (Kock and Kellermann 1991), reduced by 50% to allow for a 1 1 sex ratio and a further 20% to account for spawning by only a proportion (∼80%) of the total population each year.

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English is the required first foreign language and French is studied by only a small proportion of the school's 690 pupils.

Because touch-screen phones are more expensive than ordinary handsets, however, they are used by only a small proportion of users so far.

So many materials were perishable that scholars have little by which to judge their arts and must, in effect, draw conclusions about a people by only a small proportion of their achievement.

Gaelic, the Celtic language brought from Ireland by the Scots, is spoken by only a tiny proportion of the Scottish population, mainly concentrated in the Western Isles and the western Highlands, with pockets elsewhere, especially in Glasgow.

Which is why the protestations of Ronnie Flanagan of the International Cricket Council (ICC) that corrupt behaviour in his sport is exhibited by "only a tiny proportion of people, some of whom may have a predisposition to it", just don't ring true to me.

An example is the condom, which is generally available but used by only a small proportion of couples.

Finally, worth highlighting is that among physicians, the possibility of working independently in a private doctor's office is mentioned by only a small proportion of cases.

Overall, the treatment costs of psoriasis are mainly generated by only a small proportion of patients who have more severe disease and particularly those that have been hospitalised.

In contrast, another GP felt that emergency supplies were being requested by only a small proportion of the patient population and questioned whether the resource could be justified.

We do not present decomposition results for private hospitals because private hospitals were used by only a small proportion of the population (≤5%); patterns (unsurprisingly) were similar to private clinics which were used by a much higher proportion of the population.

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