Sentence examples for record proportion from inspiring English sources

Thanks to our reforms, a record proportion of top graduates are entering the profession.

Warner Bros reports that 89% of Gravity tickets were sold in 3D (includes IMAX 3D), a record proportion for any blockbuster released this year.

Americans have not been as worried about the future since 1978, it found, with a record proportion expecting their incomes to fall.

A27 BUSINESS DAY C1-22 $183 Billion Phone Deal Vodafone AirTouch of Britain, the world's biggest wireless telephone company, negotiated the acquisition of the German telecommunications giant Mannesmann in an all-stock transaction of record proportion.

With a record proportion of the UK population tuning into radio each week, four other BBC stations had their highest number of listeners since Rajar's methodology was introduced in 1999.

Then, 18 percent of those who voted were under 30 — just one percentage point more than in recent elections, contrary to the widespread belief that young voters made up a record proportion of the electorate.

But for the Open to take such measures took a retirement rate of record proportions.

The story line inverted, from what seemed like an impending Knicks flop to a lopsided win of nearly record proportions.

It appeared that the non-Republican turnout reached record proportions for a Republican primary, partly because of local ballot issues in some places.

To help pay for it, the G.O.P. budget hawks of yore, born again now as deficit spenders of record proportions, will soon have to raise the national debt limit by almost a trillion dollars from the current $6.4 trillion.

As Americans gorge on imported cars, electronics, clothing and a long list of other goods from abroad, the nation's trade deficit has swollen to record proportions, leaving economists and policy makers increasingly troubled.