Sentence examples for over a proportion from inspiring English sources

The Browne review has sought to curb very high fees by proposing a system under which institutions that charge more than £6,000 must hand over a proportion of their income to government.

Tax collecting in the kingdom had been effectively sub-contracted to a series of agents, who bought the right to be tax collectors and turned over a proportion of what they raised to central government.

That is easier said than done on an island where an estimated 70% of commercial establishments hand over a proportion of their earnings to the Mafia.One that does not is the Antica Focacceria di San Francesco, which sells traditional Sicilian street food in eight Italian cities and at Fiumicino airport, near Rome.

Reports emerged yesterday of Isis militants beheading captives after taking over a large proportion of the camp.

In parallel, Tory eagerness to avoid state investment has led them to invite the Chinese to take over a significant proportion of the electricity supply, along with the sewers under London streets.

Hooper was determined to spend enough money to ensure that the publication would be really up-to-date, while Jackson wanted to carry over a high proportion of articles from the ninth and 10th editions.

The Kremlin is not proposing to conduct all  government business through electric typewriters – £10,000-worth of typewriters is not going to take over a large proportion of government communication.

During the composer's lifetime a number of prominent musicians dedicated albums to his compositions; the soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy went further and gave over a great proportion of his career to the deep exploration of Monk's music, like some medieval scholar engaged in a study of theological texts.

In addition, greater hip width at the level of the greater trochanters would result in the gluteal tendons wrapping over a greater proportion of the greater trochanter, leading to an increased area of compression.

Women, first generation students and low-income students are sizeable proportions of the student population and, as is typical of our institutional classification, are over-represented as a proportion of the students enrolled (as compared with more selective institutions).

A second consideration is that adherence to supervised aerobic training 4 d.wk-1 may be over burdensome for a proportion of women with breast cancer.