Sentence examples for constituting close to from inspiring English sources

The spotted hyena has a proportionately large heart, constituting close to 1% of its body weight, thus giving it great endurance in long chases.

The benefits of screening the high risk group of men with a PSA concentration ≥2 ng/mL, constituting close to a quarter of the population, are large, whereas for men with a PSA concentration <1 ng/mL at age 60, PSA screening will lead to overdiagnosis without a mortality benefit.

It constitutes close to a third of total government expenditure.

Yet New York City residents pay more per kilowatt-hour than almost any other American electricity customers; taxes and other government charges, most of which are not enumerated on electricity bills, can constitute close to twenty per cent of the cost of power for residential and commercial users in New York.

It can be seen that lignin constitutes close to 30%% of the total biomass composition making it the second most abundant compound in loblolly pine.

It's radically less than 1% of total GDP, and yet the companies it supports currently constitute close to 20% of GDP, maybe more now.

As opposed to the situation in Europe and the United States, where diabetic nephropathy constitutes close to 50%% of patients on ESRD programs, the predominant causes of ESRD in Africa are essential hypertension and chronic glomerulonephritis [9].

Jews constituted close to one-half of Vilnius's population, according to the German census of 1916, and many victims of fighting and subsequent repression in Vilnius were Jews.

Curation of the CA dataset in fact might constitute close to the ideal situation, where ontologies are fully provisioned and no new terms are required.

Although neonatal deaths constitute close to 40% of all inpatient paediatric deaths in such regions, neonatal illness did not feature prominently in the development of the said chart.

With military conscription being mandatory and participation enforced by law in the period investigated, included participants constitute close to the entire Swedish male population.