Sentence examples for it a proportion from inspiring English sources

The union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, drew attention to the fact that less than one-third of the people who initially applied to take the exam have taken or will take it, a proportion that is smaller than the historic average of about half of all applicants showing up on test day.

It happens that Willan is interested in inference about a parameter that can itself be considered as a probability (although we believe it would be more helpful to call it a proportion, i.e. the proportion of patients in the population with positive individual INBs).

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So the best way to look at government expenditure, revenue or, in this case, debt over time is to look at it as a proportion of GDP.

The GLMM used a binomial distribution for FPG (as it is a proportion) and a Poisson distribution for TFG.

"It is purely a proportion issue," he said.

Measured as a proportion, it quantifies the risk of an occurrence in a given time period.

Then it measures their reliability as a proportion of this.

However, it has been "halved" as a proportion of the UK's GDP.

It's a small proportion, but it's still 20,000 people".

It is a small proportion, but an extremely aggressive form of the disease.