Sentence examples for extraordinary percentage from inspiring English sources

An extraordinary percentage of the residents -- men, women and sometimes children -- are hooked, entire families pulled under.

In the past 18 months, archeologists have found an "extraordinary percentage of opiates", according to Hughes, in vast dishes found on bronze age sites in Greece.

In the real world, a radiologist who needlessly subjected such an extraordinary percentage of healthy patients to the time, expense, anxiety, and discomfort of biopsies and further testing would find himself seriously out of step with his profession.

Today, one quarter of the roughly 25,000 inhabitants of the district, a collection of seven inhabited islands and 60 uninhabited ones, are Roman Catholic, an extraordinary percentage in a country where Christianity failed to take root.

What sets Bolt apart is the length of his legs and his extraordinary percentage of fast-twitch fibers and his competitive nature — and those are all differences that define the competition in the hundred.

I hope you took some time to savour the many tracts of spectacular parkland around Bear Mountain and to reflect on what an extraordinary percentage of my total land area is guaranteed public and "for ever wild".

Compound a steady growth record over four decades, which these two companies have done, and you get some extraordinary percentages.

The reason Clemens is so close in spite of that is his extraordinary winning percentage.

Between 2000 and 2004, China's national saving rate rose by an extraordinary 12 percentage points of GDP to 50% of GDP.

Its task now is to fight a recession that looks increasingly likely to be the worst since the second world war.The bank's latest move means that the base rate has now fallen by an extraordinary 3.5 percentage points since the start of October (see chart).

In the third of a century since then the fund has averaged a 14% annual return, an extraordinary five percentage points ahead of the MSCI World Index.