Sentence examples for proportion has dropped from inspiring English sources

Then almost 30% of households reported that they had experienced hunger in the past year; the proportion has dropped sharply, to 13% in 2012.

Since the long recession set off by that crisis took hold, that proportion has dropped to about one in eight, according to the CUNY report.

Here in the Boston region, only about 59percentt of families own their homes, and the proportion has dropped a little during the last five years of rapid price gains.

The share of households made up of two parents and their children the traditional nuclear family fell from 45% in 1960 to only 23.5% in 2000, the first time the proportion has dropped below a quarter.This decline has partly been caused by young singles moving out of the nest.

By 2004 the proportion had dropped to 64%.

In 1960 more than three-fourths of Vermonters were native-born; by 2000 this proportion had dropped to about three-fifths.

In 1937, 56 percent of the population was recorded as engaged in agriculture or forestry; by 1958 that proportion had dropped to 42 percent, very largely as a result of Stalin's policies.

In 1947 more than one-third of the state's employed population was in manufacturing, but by the early 21st century that proportion had dropped to only about one-tenth of the total.

More than half the country was forested in the 1940s, particularly the north and east, but by the end of the 20th century, the proportion had dropped to nearly one-fifth.

By 2011 this proportion had dropped to 18percentt.

By 1989-1995, the proportion had dropped to less than 1percentt.