Sentence examples for very substantial proportion from inspiring English sources

Mr Allen points out that although Loyalists were a minority in the end perhaps no more than one-fifth of the colonists in many places they were a very substantial proportion of the population of the colonies.

"Do we think it is appropriate in 2009 for somebody to explain away the use of a word which is deemed by a very substantial proportion of the public to be hugely offensive as a joke?

Recent data showing that peripheral Treg recirculate back to the thymus and that they represent a very substantial proportion of thymic Treg in adult mice (Cowan et al., 2016; Thiault et al., 2015), however, urge for a reinvestigation of this issue.

Finer details of the plan have not yet been revealed, but Labor says that "a very substantial proportion" of the targeted homes will be in regional and country Australia.

It is estimated that 19% of the targeted beneficiaries were reached by this project, which is very substantial proportion in the Indonesian context.

On the other hand, agroecology targets a very substantial proportion of grassland-based livestock systems and plays an important role in biodiversity conservation (Veen et al., 2009).

Haplogroup A2 shows a star-like phylogeny and is very diverse with a substantial proportion of mtDNAs (45%; sequence range 16090 16365) still unobserved in other American populations.

Our results taken in the context of what is known about the biological role of ATM in protecting the genome suggest that it is very likely that a substantial proportion of breast cancers, which have lost ATM expression at the protein level, are in fact deficient also in ATM function [ 34].

As this is not what we observed, it seems very likely that a meaningful, substantial proportion of CNVs are associated with intellectual functioning.

During the SARS epidemic, the reported prevalence of face mask use when having ILI while traveling abroad was not very high, indicating that a substantial proportion of the general population was not practicing behaviors directed towards protecting others [ 10].

63 64 In view of the very high risk of EC, the substantial proportion of women who will die from the disease, the morbidity associated with treatment and the effectiveness of prophylactic surgery, there is agreement that the option of prophylactic hysterectomy should be discussed with mutation carriers who have completed their family.