Sentence examples for shocking proportion from inspiring English sources

A shocking proportion of Florida fraud is conducted by Cuban exiles, just-arrived and penniless, who quickly amass vast fortunes.

In every parliament, the midterm polls show, as they did this weekend, that the party was losing a shocking proportion of previous support.

A shocking proportion of the fruit crop in the state of Victoria is left to rot because there are not enough fruit pickers.

In doing this, "Bye Bye 2011" is no exception: a shocking proportion of Quebec's Francophone broadcast and print media gives the rest of Canada only an occasional sideways glance.

But the formal front doors and a chunk of the ground floor had been hacked away in a renovation of shocking proportions.

BAGHDAD — Iraq has been so inured by years of war, terrorism and sectarian strife that what would be a horrific crime of shocking proportions in most countries has gone barely noticed here.

"This is a tragedy of staggering proportion and shocking that it's happening in the middle of our country," the Oscar winner said.

As in previous months, a big part of the explanation lies in a shocking fall in the proportion of the working-age population that is working or looking for work.

A Guardian analysis of newly released government figures has revealed a shocking increase in the proportion of ethnic minority children and young people being held in the youth justice system.

"Donald Trump's election was a shocking mistake of historical proportions.

It was a borderline decision and easy to see why Kuipers would show red but the reaction of Chelsea's players was out of all proportion and a shocking show of mass dissent, captain John Terry almost doing a war dance of fury seconds after the tackle.