Sentence examples for proportion pick from inspiring English sources

By contrast, a third say the scale of government debt is a risk, and almost the same proportion pick the rise of Islamist terrorism.

In a survey asking Japanese firms to rate the best countries to invest in over the next three years, the proportion picking China fell from 91% in 2004 to 77% in 2006.

Not content with calculating the number of cigar-ends thrown away each week (30,000) and guessing at the proportion picked up by the cigar-end finders (a sixth), he continues by explaining how this "refuse tobacco" is made into new cigars; "or, in other words, they are worked up again to be again cast away, and again collected by the finders, and so on perhaps, till the millennium comes".

A low proportion of viewers believed that they were in the Mask condition (Question 3) and a low proportion picked the mask out from an array of real face photos (Question 4).

Rising from the tiny pedestal in front of the bank, Holloway's otherwise modest sculpture grows to gargantuan proportions, picking up momentum as it bends and twists through space until it seems to travel with the force of an unstoppable train of thought.

We understand why but sometimes people blow it out of proportion by picking out one number".

A smaller proportion of voters picked those as important issues than picked "moral values" on the National Election Pool questionnaire, and they split almost evenly between Bush and Kerry.

The proportion who said picking up money found in the street was never justified dropped from almost 40% a decade ago to less than 20% - while just one in three were prepared to condemn lying in their own interests.

The automated score was defined by two components: the proportion of pixels picked out in the difference image relative to the reference and the overall intensity (median) of these pixels in the difference image.

I'm guessing that a healthy proportion of people who pick up the book don't even get beyond page 51.

Today's pick: a proportion-changing heel from Walter Steiger.