Sentence examples for worrying proportion from inspiring English sources

A worrying proportion of those who do graduate are barely educated.

By the mid-1990s, there were 117 pandas living in captivity in China, a worrying proportion of them descendants of a single, libidinous male called Pan Pan.

Of the millions of homes being financed, a worrying proportion was bought by people who had no hope or intention of repaying their loans.

The main reason why a small but worrying proportion of families and young people is falling behind is that schools are failing to give them the skills they need to get and hold a job.

A worrying proportion of Cambodian men apparently think it's okay to use Valentine's Day as an excuse to rape their dates.

If a study released a couple of weeks ago is to be believed, a worrying proportion of Cambodian men think it's OK to use Valentine's Day as an excuse to rape their dates. .

Last year Americans using oDesk's platform found over 2m hours of freelance work.Given all this, it is worrying that the proportion of start-ups in Silicon Valley founded by immigrants has fallen from 52% to 44% since 2005, according to the Kauffman Foundation, a think-tank.

Yet the labour market position of Bulgarians in the Netherlands can be described as worrying because a high proportion of even those migrants who came in order to work report that they do not have a job in the Netherlands.

The proportion worried about car fumes has almost halved to 28% in the past ten years.

There was also an increase in the proportion worried about rising prices, reflecting official figures for November that showed manufacturers faced the sharpest rise in their costs for five years.

Particularly worrying was the extremely low proportion of all women who knew that HIV could be transmitted vertically.