Sentence examples for shocking percentage from inspiring English sources

A shocking percentage of Dubai citizens are diabetic, the result, apparently, of having too much to eat and too little incentive to bestir themselves.

I'm not just talking about the NSA converting our private lives to data or the prison system absorbing a shocking percentage of our population.

In 2008, the last year of the Bush Administration, at least one child was reported killed in a third of all C.I.A. drone strikes in Pakistan, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism — a shocking percentage, if it is accurate.

A shocking percentage of apps are never even opened.

The members of some Zambezi River tribes, I had been told the day before, believe that crocodiles are their reincarnated ancestors and that the shocking percentage of people who meet their maker every year via crocodiles are individuals who were unkind to their parents.

Studies are revealing that a shocking percentage of food in wealthy nations is thrown away -- perhaps the ultimate disrespect of the animal's sacrifice.

If you question the value of "weak ties," how about job networking, dating (a shocking, to some, percentage of new relationships start online), advice/recommendations, or opportunity of any kind?

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Iain Ferguson, the environment manager at Co-op, said: "It is shocking that such a small percentage of plastic packaging is being recycled, especially materials that are already easy to recycle like plastic bottles.

Shocking moment to shocking moment.

While the 55 cents a day threshold may be shocking, or the rapidly dropping percentages worldwide uplifting, such numbers, devoid of context, are somewhat meaningless.