At the same time, the proportion of successful applications is very low.
At the same time, the proportion of private renters in work and claiming housing benefit increased from 14% to 18%.
At the same time, the proportion of blacks attending these institutions dipped, from 18.4percentt of all black college students in 1976 to 14.5percentt in 1997.
For the first time the proportion of parents who are cohabiting is equal to that of married couples, according to a report commissioned by Co-operative Legal Services.
He published an study in 2011 that identified for the first time the proportion of cancers that were due to 14 different factors.
This is surely why the thesis that over time the proportion of men and women will naturally continue to level out fails to hold water.
At the same time, the proportion of borrowers who dropped out rose to nearly 30 percent for the 2003 enrollees, compared with 23 percent for the 1995 enrollees.
A-level results are out and it is the first time the proportion of students being awarded A* to E has dropped in 32 years - although by just 0.1 percentage points.
The increasing availability of degree courses means that for the first time the proportion of working age people with a university or college qualification, now 41% of the total, outnumbers the 37% who finished their education at 16 or 18.
At the same time, the proportion of the population comprised of individuals disinclined to have many kids, and encouraged by their social environment not to do so either, increased rapidly.
At the same time, the proportion of loans in existing securitizations that were delinquent, which had seemed to decline in the spring of this year, began to rise again.
