Sentence examples for surprising proportion from inspiring English sources

But a surprising proportion of manufacturing firms in Britain are nothing like that.

Emmy winners, prominent academics and politicians, and MacArthur geniuses make up a surprising proportion of its tiny pool of alumni.

"A surprising proportion of people don't even take advantage of an offer of free service," he said.

It's true, as Sandbrook points out, that many of the people who voted for McCarthy in New Hampshire favored escalation of the war, and a surprising proportion of them voted in the general election for George Wallace.

Indeed some of this is already recorded in the fossils from Daohugou: of the more weird and wonderful extinct creatures to have come from northeastern China, a surprising proportion are actually from the Daohugou and not the Jehol.

Of the 138 movies analyzed, 49 percent were rated PG-13, 20.5 percent were PG and 7.5 percent were G. "We found that a surprising proportion of movies that were targeted to children and adolescents featured brand appearances," the authors wrote.

For the likes of Rep. Paul Ryan, who is co-sponsoring a new fetal-personhood bill, it's a triumph of surprising proportions.

When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin's trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: "Let's go to the Irish pub!" The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.

We discovered that a surprising large proportion of these genes were differentially expressed (75% at p<0.001 and 95% at p<0.05) (Table S3, Figure 5, S7 and S8).

Intron retention, a form of AS in which the mature mRNA transcript retains entire introns that are eliminated in other transcripts, accounts for a surprising large proportion (above 30%) of recorded AS events in Arabidopsis and rice [ 10].

As 'actions speak louder then words' it is not surprising that the proportion of students using components of the informal curriculum was greater than the proportion using objectives on examination preparation (which is not a problem if these are congruent).