Sentence examples for chilling proportion from inspiring English sources
About 40 percent reported cognitive difficulties — a chilling proportion, yet lower than I had expected.
Relatives, neighbors and community activists who gathered on Monday at Ms. Williams's apartment, at 740 Gates Avenue, described the killing as a tragedy of chilling proportions.
Under chilling treatment, the proportion of unsaturated fatty acid in the plasma membrane increased significantly in callus of C. bungeana[ 75].
After this dose of cold stress, direct mortality remained relatively low but a high proportion of insects showed signs of chilling injury.
Finally, a significant proportion of the proteins identified had not been associated with softening, cold storage or chilling injury-altered fruit before; thus, comparative proteomics has proven to be a valuable tool for understanding fruit softening and postharvest.
"With six million households in fuel poverty, rising to over nine million by 2016, and an increasing proportion of our incomes being spent on essential items like energy, this latest news... is chilling".
"With six million households in fuel poverty, rising to over nine million by 2016, and an increasing proportion of our incomes being spent on essential items likeenergy, this latest news, while not surprising, is chilling".
The statistics are chilling.
