Sentence examples for startling proportion from inspiring English sources

A startling proportion of older people report that they've experienced discrimination: 63 percent, in a study recently published in Research on Aging.

In the decades since Lucy threw her first tantrum, the anger of TV writers, and their frustration at TV's limitations, has inspired a startling proportion of TV's best comedies.

What does it mean when a candidate must spend a startling proportion of his time glad-handing the wealthiest Americans just to keep the pump primed, the campaign rolling along?

Inequality of wealth and income has reached startling proportions, not just in the US, where Elysium is set, or in South Africa, where Blomkamp is from, but also in Britain.

As Anthony, Daniel Boys (a contestant in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Any Dream Will Do) was simply a black hole where a performer should have been, a charisma-free zone of startling proportions.

The rates of depression, PTSD and suicide are reaching startling proportions among soldiers and veterans.

Since then, SOCOM has grown into a combined force of startling proportions.

The article is anchored by the startling infographic above, which shows the proportion of different types of traffic on the Internet.

One of the most startling differences in intake between countries is the significantly lower proportion of Polish subjects (16%) meeting the recommended intakes for polyunsaturated fats compared to the Czech (60%) and Russian subjects (65%).

And it's startling that the richest third of donors in Britain give less, as a proportion of their income, to charity than the poorest third.

The ring's outsize proportions make her large fingers looks smaller, she said, and its startling look goes far in dressing up an otherwise simple outfit.