Sentence examples for prevailing figure from inspiring English sources

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 1% of children across the country have some form of autism — 20 times the prevailing figure in the 1980s.

Meanwhile the ONS based its 0.6% estimate of services growth on a 0.1% contraction on the month in the sector in June (latest prevailing figures were for May).

And the prevailing frame that pro-choice advocates now use, that abortion be "safe, legal and rare," doesn't figure here either.

"We put this wet finger up to the prevailing winds to figure out what we should be eating.

Long caricatured as the consummate upper-class conservative -- his "Masterpiece Theater" air, his unabashed intellectual self-confidence and his supply of words from the Oxford English Dictionary have made caricature all too easy -- Buckley is a more complicated figure than his prevailing image suggests.

The heritability of genetic traits is no doubt the prevailing factor affecting RE (Figure 2), however at the moment, there is limited research examining specific genotypes related to better economy [11,12].

In general, the magnitude of the excitability index change produced by GABA (30 µM) or muscimol (30 µM) increases with increasing basal stimulus rate, i.e. as the prevailing excitability index decreases (Figure 3C & 5D).

Results of statistical tests and a figure of prevailing range sizes were generated with the software R vers.

According to the general ten-year wind data (Figure 2), the prevailing wind direction is from the south (30.8%), followed by calm (17.2%) and northerly wind direction (12.60%).

Sluter, an innovator in art, moved beyond the prevailing French taste for graceful figures, delicate and elegant movement, and fluid falls of drapery.

The 3 percent figure is well below prevailing rates for 30-year mortgages, now hovering between 4.5 and 5 percent.