Sentence examples for had been overrepresented from inspiring English sources

Traditionally, particularly in the South, the populations of rural areas had been overrepresented in legislatures in proportion to those of urban and suburban areas.

We also avoided one conspicuous species of ostracod (large-bodied, blue morphospecies) which had been overrepresented in previous analyses.

For many years, notes Alex Piquero, youth of color have been overrepresented at every stage of the U.S. juvenile justice system.

This might seem plausible at a first glance because in most Western countries migrants have been overrepresented among the working class.

Out of 346 patients 152 (44%) had a mean co-medication period of 22.4 out of 52 weeks (see Table 2), which indicates that patients with a severe course of illness were unlikely to have been overrepresented.

Further, since World War I, when the U.S. mobilized Puerto Ricans en masse for the first time, they have been overrepresented in the military.

Moreover, it is possible that animals from some regions have been overrepresented in our sample.

Therefore, counties with a large percentage of small flocks (<20 ewes) may have been overrepresented.

In particular, chronic disease and pregnancy may have been overrepresented among patients presenting for outpatient pathologic analysis.

On the other hand, the experiences of some health departments that did not compile responses might have been overrepresented.

This underlines that in VBM studies with small samples, some subtypes of dyslexia may have been overrepresented or underrepresented.