Sentence examples for portion of children from inspiring English sources

Children love sweets (a fair portion of children, at least).

Obesity and its health sequelae affect a significant portion of children in the United States.

Separately, opponents of standardized testing, who have been some of the most vocal critics of the mayor's new promotion rules, charged yesterday that the third-grade reading test was set up to guarantee that a substantial portion of children would fail.

Personal samples were collected from nonsmoking adults and a portion of children living in the target homes.

We now conjecture that a portion of children in this group voluntarily delayed school entry to avoid being disadvantaged by their younger age positions.

A large portion of children with mild head injuries are seen by their primary care doctors, avoiding unnecessary visits to emergency rooms.

The government also reimburses a significant portion of child-care costs and offers tax benefits.

As disturbing as such crimes are, they represent a robust portion of child homicides in the United States.

But every month, after I wrote checks for the mortgage, utilities, and my portion of child-care costs, only a few hundred dollars remained for everything else.

Under this program, parents would be given vouchers, or certificates, by the states that could be used to pay for all or a portion of child care.

Are an undocumented parent raising a child who is an American citizen: The House bill would require at least one parent to have a Social Security number to claim the refundable portion of child tax credit.