Sentence examples for surprising percentage from inspiring English sources

Yet it turns out that a surprising percentage of those who follow fashion occupationally are sports obsessed.

Chinese students, and a surprising percentage of all Chinese citizens, yearned for democracy and for the freedom to learn about everything in the world — without censorship.

July 23 2010 July 23: Wesleyan grads make for a surprising percentage of quirky Brooklyn rockers, with MGMT, Extra Life, Das Racist, and Santigold counting themselves as Cardinals.

But it's my experience that a surprising percentage of otherwise normal people have gone berserk in recent years as airlines have begun charging for checked bags.

Yes, we can trace a surprising percentage of our basic everyday speech back to the vocabulary and grammar of those invaders 1,500 years ago, but no, a hundred times no, there was no inevitability about it.

The legacy of Francoism provides the book's structure, but its true subject is the people of this quirky young democracy, a surprising percentage of whom would prefer to be Basque or Catalan and not Spanish at all.

Mr Reed has since merely said that if he had known then what he knows now, he wouldn't have taken the work.In this section Of gambling, grannies and good sense A tangle of troubles Mr Bush's first veto A doctors' revolt Broken Reed Hot and hotter ReprintsMr Reed's loss by a surprising 12 percentage points is no great win for left-wing America.

WASHINGTON -- A new poll of Massachusetts voters that shows a surprising 9 percentage point lead for Republican Sen. Scott Brown against Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren used an unorthodox ordering of questions that drew criticism even from Brown's pollster.

Thus, it is not surprising that the percentage of lying down movements with collisions were correlated positively with the percentage of lame cows (rs = 0.45, P < 0.001), but also with the duration of lying down movements (rs = 0.46, P < 0.001), the percentage of cows with at least one lesion (rs = 0.33, P = 0.003), and the percentage of cows with mastitis (rs = 0.38, P = 0.001).

Economists say this is surprising because the percentage of people in the work force usually drops as unemployed workers grow discouraged and stop looking for work in a recession.

Given these perceptions, it is not surprising that the percentage of females working in computer fields actually declined from 34 to 27% between 1990 and 2011 (Landivar 2013).