Sentence examples for make up a big proportion from inspiring English sources
For many private schools costly fees make up a big proportion of their income.
Single urban mothers living on welfare still make up a big proportion of the poor, but, since the dramatic welfare reforms of 1996, these mothers are much more likely to be working.
Accounts year to 31 August 2014 Total income: £62m (£56m - 2013) Expenditure: £59m (£55m) Gross school fees: £44m (£42m) Fee remission: £5.8m (£5.2m) Fee reductions: 21% of pupils (20%) Number of pupils: 1,300+ (aged 13-18) Like many private schools, Eton's fees make up a big proportion of its total income.
Borrowing less will also allow you to access more competitive mortgages because your deposit will make up a bigger proportion of the purchase price.
Here is how the numbers break down in charts: Women make up a bigger proportion of those that reporting working on zero-hours contracts (55%) compared with other people in employment (47%).
[On Wednesday, the Nikkei edged up slightly and then fluctuated, with a gain of 0.3percentt as of mid-afternoon.] Stocks are counted in the capital base of Japanese banks, and they make up a bigger proportion of banks' capital now than ever before, said Craig Chudler, an equity strategist at Nikko Salomon Smith Barney.
Thanks to the explosion of mobile games that have drawn in the crossword and Sudoku crowd, adult women now make up a bigger proportion of gamers (37 percent) than do boys 17 or younger (13 percent), according to a study by the Entertainment Software Association.
She based her calculations on the cost of food, which, at the time, made up a big proportion of household budgets.
Household spending makes up a big proportion of the Philippines' economy because spending on infrastructure and industry has for years lagged behind the country's peers in Southeast Asia.
You would struggle to find one artist in our scene of any racial background, which I'd say makes up a big proportion of what people consider UK Urban Music today who would agree with this.
But with real wages stagnating, deposits are making up a bigger proportion of buyers' incomes.
