Sentence examples for decades a large proportion from inspiring English sources

During the last several decades, a large proportion of the planet's terrestrial surface has transformed from natural ecosystems to human-dominated systems.

While unemployment rates hovering around 10% actually mean that the vast majority of people seeking a job have found one, real wages have declined over recent decades, a large proportion of those employed are employed for lower salaries than they once hoped for or perhaps once earned, and large numbers of potential workers have given up on seeking a job.

During the past few decades, a large proportion of the population has moved within Sweden, especially from rural to urban areas and from the north to the south of Sweden.

But suppose, for a moment, that it's accurate and that within a decade a large proportion of homes have become smart.

Over these three decades, a larger proportion of women received PET (57.8% (N=616)) when compared with surgery (42.2% (N=449)).

Our study suggests that vaccination may need to be re-evaluated in a few decades' time, when a large proportion of the population will consist of susceptible elderly persons – the age-group with the greatest risk of developing severe complications following infection.

Although the board does not keep records of principal experience from past eras, veterans recall a time a decade or two ago when a large proportion of principals had been working as principals for 10 years or more.

The UNICEF Representative for Thailand, Tomoo Hozumi, said the survey's results confirm that Thailand's remarkable economic progress over recent decades has brought many social benefits to a large proportion of the population.

At the beginning of the 21st century, more than four decades since Rio ceased to be the national capital, a large proportion of federal employees were still based there, along with tens of thousands of state and city workers.

Over the entire decade, however, the economy was sluggish and investors lost a large proportion of their money.

"In Asia, urban air pollution in many cities rivals the levels that existed during the first decades of the 20th century in Europe and North America and account for a large proportion of global health burden in relation to air pollution," she says.