Sentences with phrase «british than the population»

CNN: British Muslims optimistic and proud, survey finds British Muslims are more proud to be British than the population as a whole, and they are significantly more optimistic about the country's future, a new study released Monday reveals.

British Muslims are more proud to be British than the population as a whole, and they are significantly more optimistic about the country's future, a new study released Monday reveals.

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SMEs are the backbone of the British economy, making up 99 % of the business population and accounting for more than half of all private sector employment.

The new nation which arose to the north of the United States, in British North America, while much smaller in population than its neighbor, had a larger percentage which claimed a church connection.

See for example complaints about the British NHS and understaffing in L&D due to population demographics changing faster than expected.

The study was conducted in British Columbia, a province in Canada with a population of more than 4.4 million.

The coalition is concerned that British constituencies are so radically unequal, with some containing a much higher population than others but all returning one MP.

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

In just over 10 years» time, it is predicted that less than half the population will be white British.

The issue of cousin marriage has been in the headlines since research two years ago showed British Pakistanis were 13 times more likely to have children with recessive disorders than the general population.

He emboldens a passage that says «The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer».

The British territory in the South Atlantic has a population of little more than 4,000.

Erika Eliason, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada, wanted to know whether different populations of Fraser River salmon were better than others at handling the heat.

«If some individuals are better at coping than others in a low - pH environment, we need to know how efficiently that ability can be passed on to that individual's offspring and how quickly this trait will spread in the population», explains Dr. Jennifer Sunday, Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

More than 17 million singles live in the United Kingdom, according to the latest census data, and the Office for National Statistics reports that 2 % of the UK's total population describe their ethnicity as Black, African, Caribbean, or Black British.

Highlights from The British Consumer Index Financial Optimism Index September 2014 • Optimism falls for the second month Optimists outnumber pessimists but the gap is narrowing • Scottish optimism fell sharply in the run up to the referendum • People who respond to on line surveys are more optimistic than the population in general

Crime and thriller writer Abir Mukherjee pointed out that the British Asian population has a higher disposable income than the average and asked «why isn't it being targeted?»

As a result, more than 6m British people living permanently abroad counting for almost one in 10 of the UK population.

It is estimated that there are more than 120,000 Black Bears in British Columbia and over 7000 Black Bears on Vancouver Island making it one of the more dense places in the world for this bear population.

Nature is much wiser than that and if look at the obesity level of Americans and British around one - third of all its population promising to reach half by 2050 there is not much on Carbon spending from modern life to be proud of and to emulate around the world.

Around 54,000 divorces were filed in 2010 - 11 in seven reporting provinces and territories (Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, representing 66 per cent of Canada's population), two - per - cent fewer than the previous year, when about 55,000 divorce files were opened.

British women are more likely sleep in dirty sheets than the UK's male population, according to the latest research from Dunelm Mill.

According to the survey, more than three - quarters of the British population say they focus on speed and attention to cleanliness rather taking their time with a long soak in the tub.