Sentence examples for hefty proportion of from inspiring English sources

The generation before us bought up a hefty proportion of British property and are now either sitting on it or leasing it to us for astronomical monthly fees.

The GIB has huge potential to leverage in a hefty proportion of the private sector investment needed for the UK's low carbon economy to flourish.

As if Carmina Burana has met High School Musical, the work has been almost impossibly sanitised – the equivalent of pulling a hefty proportion of its teeth.

If you're very worried about Brexit, you might want to take a look at your portfolio for a handful of stocks that have British subsidiaries that generate a hefty proportion of the parent company's revenue.

The study suggests that a hefty proportion of clients are going hungry for longer than the nine-to-15 days that three Trussell food parcels would be expected to last.

In the closing years of the last century, newspapers and broadcasters reported extensively on a program known as Echelon, under which the N.S.A. and allied intelligence agencies used satellite receivers, underseas-cable taps, and powerful computers to download and search a hefty proportion of the world's electronic traffic.

And, given the alarming rise in obesity, telling fat people to eat less will alienate a hefty proportion - forgive the expression - of the electorate.

Transposon derived sequences account for at least 45% of the human genome, a hefty proportion when compared with the 1% given over to protein coding regions (Jordon et al. 2003).

American issuers like Ford Motor Company and Philip Morris have brought large new issues to the European market recently, and a large proportion of this years hefty new-issuance calendar in Europe reflects European demand for American names in the single-A universe.

Britain is one of the worst recyclers in Europe and councils face hefty fines if they fail to increase the proportion of domestic waste recycled from 27%to40%0% by 2010.

Every year, SGP's organisers give a hefty chunk of their profits back to attendees who want to create interactive "art experiences", a significant proportion of which appear to involve getting naked.