Sentence examples for this proportion had from inspiring English sources

These old-growth trees covered around 4% of the central highlands area in 1964 but by 2011 this proportion had shrunk to 1%.

In 1960 more than three-fourths of Vermonters were native-born; by 2000 this proportion had dropped to about three-fifths.

By 2005, when inflation had gone back up again, this proportion had risen to 45%.The authors argue that investors develop strategies to deal with this uncertainty.

As evidence she points out that African-American voter turnout has usually been very low in Cleveland, at only about 25%: this time, thanks to the Democrats' efforts, more than this proportion had already voted by mid-October.

In 1979 one-tenth of the population of Northern Ireland resided in households earning less than 50 percent of the national average income; by 1999 this proportion had grown to one in four.

In 1988 the communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe did around a third of their trade with the EU; by 1998 this proportion had grown to around two-thirds.

This proportion has since fallen slightly to 20% or 198 of the total 1,000.

This proportion has grown steadily over the years; in 1992, it was around 80percentt.

This proportion has remained relatively stable since the year ending 2001 when this data began being collected.

This proportion has remained steady in recent years; efforts to publicise the dangers have been half-hearted.

But with the last few telephone polls, this proportion has dipped below 55%, a trend confirmed in Monday's Guardian survey.