Sentence examples for constitute a large majority from inspiring English sources
More than 200 African ethnic groups live in Congo; of these, Bantu peoples constitute a large majority of the country's population.
Australian scholar Charles Coppel believes they also constitute a large majority of returned overseas Chinese living in Hong Kong.
These proposals were rejected by the Arabs, both because they constituted a large majority of the total mandate population and therefore wished to dominate the instruments of government and rapidly gain independence and because, they argued, the proposals allowed Jewish immigration, which had a political objective, to be regulated by an economic criterion.
Official marriage records analysed by Jeffreys and Pan (2013: 357) show that women constituted a large majority of the Chinese citizens who registered a marriage to a foreigner, even though their share declined from 97%% in 1979 to 77.3 % in 2010.
After much debate and one failed proposal, 232 members of the 10,000 member assembly, who nevertheless constituted a large majority of those remaining at the meeting, voted to pass a resolution.
18 According to the 2012 World Bank report, Gambia's total adult literacy rate was 45.3% while the adult literacy rate of the female population, which constitutes a large majority of clinical trial participants, was 34.3%.
Diabetic patients whose CV risk factors are well-controlled constitute a large proportion of the diabetic population, with a majority still being widely prescribed unnecessary and potentially hazardous medications such as aspirin [ 50].
Diterpenoids constitute a large class of chemically diverse metabolites that is widely distributed throughout the plant kingdom with more than 12,000 known compounds, the majority of which derives from bicyclic 'labdane-related' diterpene intermediates [ 1].
