Sentence examples for drop in the proportion from inspiring English sources

The last time there was a year-on-year drop in the proportion getting the top grade was in 1991, when there was a 0.1% fall.

There has been a drop in the proportion of this age group who think drinking is acceptable for someone of their age.

There was a two percentage point drop in the proportion of entries awarded C or higher – the biggest fall since GCSEs began in 1988.

The study also noted a drop in the proportion of nonelderly adults who have visited a dentist in the past year, a possible indicator of declining dental insurance.

"Protected" is a misnomer in that even a real terms settlement represents a significant drop in the proportion of science funding as a percentage of GDP.

Ministers glossed over a marked drop in the proportion of pupils passing English on Thursday as they welcomed figures showing an overall increase in the GCSE pass rate.

Also, although not statistically significant, there was a drop-off in the proportion of children with viralogical and immunological failures at 6 months and at 12 months.

Compared to functional classification of A909 genes, this analysis revealed a dramatic drop in the proportions of genes involved in mobile and extrachromosomal functions (that reflects the loss of most genomic islands) and in cellular processes, including the pathogenesis subcategory.

In the same time frame there were statistically significant drops in the proportion of diagnostic and level IV studies (P < 0.01) (Table 1).

The bureau has documented a notable drop in the civilian proportion of drone casualties, to 16 percent of those killed in 2011 from 28 percent in 2008.

Although denser taxon sampling will be needed for a more exact estimate of the prevalence of ecology-based diversification within the Higher Nematinae, the marked drop in the inferred proportion in the age-adjusted analysis suggests that phylogenetic time corrections would be useful also in surveys of other insect herbivore taxa.