Sentence examples for proportion was more from inspiring English sources

As recently as 1990, the proportion was more than a third.

For Omnicom the proportion was more than 25% of $2.6 billion in sales.Direct marketing is a fuzzy thing to measure.

By 1900 advertisements might form up to 50 percent of its contents; by 1947, the proportion was more often 65 percent.

The impact of immigration was not confined to these two centres; whereas the overseas-born population accounted for about one-third of the total for Sydney and Melbourne at the start of the 21st century, the national proportion was more than one-fifth and rising.

This last proportion was more than twofold greater than the one observed in the HIV-negative Italian population.

Only one-third of women with MM and with occupational exposure to asbestos filed for compensation; the proportion was more than double for men (Table 1).

In Syria, the proportion is more than 60%.

For electronics, the proportion is more than 30%, and for cars just over half.

In some parts of western Sydney, that proportion is more than half.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation FAOO), a third of fish stocks in the oceans are over-exploited; some estimates say the proportion is more than half (see chart).

Half of all drug takers seeking treatment in Japan have problems with meth; in South Korea the proportion is more than 90%.