Sentences with phrase «considerable proportion»

This section included the Sadducees, and perhaps quite a considerable proportion of Jews, for theirs was the dominant view reflected in the books of the Apocrypha.

We are not as generous as we once were even if the amount is great it is not a considerable proportion of our own incomes or GDP.

The survey suggests that a considerable proportion of separating and separated fathers seek help on a range of issues, but many do not look for or find the help they need — for example 71 % of respondents did not seek employment advice from anyone in the year before separation, and only 54 % had approached a solicitor on any topic.

However, as the table shows, even the top up system gave Labour a considerable proportion of this extra benefit.

«If the mayor makes his choice and the person the mayor chooses fails to put together a majority, it's a loss to the mayor of considerable proportion and the mayor is going to have to court individual members of the Council more assiduously to move his legislative agenda in the second term,» he continued.

In the longer term, don't forget that a considerable proportion of the Liberal Democrat MPs have a personal interest in the Coalition continuing: 18 of their 57 MPs are salaried ministers or whips, with a handful of others serving as PPSs and others ambitious to get a government job later in the Parliament.

The fact that a considerable proportion of patients are missing doses of these very expensive agents is worrying, as clearly their effectiveness would be reduced.»

Cedric Mims points out that rodents consume a considerable proportion of food crops (4 June, p 34).

In nature, a considerable proportion of Drosophila larvae are killed by enemies, mainly parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs inside the larvae.

Although a considerable proportion of nesting occurs within protected areas in Gabon, a range of illegal activities and external pressures continue to exist highlighting the need for continued conservation efforts.

In this part of the continent a considerable proportion of livestock production takes place in line with the intensive model, as in the case of pig, poultry and a large proportion of cattle livestock.

Moreover, clinical trial data suggest that a considerable proportion of patients receiving anti-TNF-alpha therapy may become resistant to treatment in the first few years.

«Gulf War deployment continues to be strongly associated with increased MSI, affecting a considerable proportion of Gulf War veterans,» write Stella M. Gwini and colleagues of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

With regard to the PRC, a considerable proportion of current emissions result from manufacture for export to the rich world; and more fundamentally, it is arguable that China is now an integral part of the capitalist world - system (although the USSR was not).

There are approximately 1.5 million singles in Ireland, 1 a statistic which suggests that a considerable proportion of the population will be spending this Christmas without a partner.

According to Statistics New Zealand, 23 % of Kiwi households are single occupant, 1 suggesting that a considerable proportion of the population will be spending this Christmas without a partner.

While Stealth was filmed before Ray, this is still an embarrassment of considerable proportions.

A principal working in a school with a considerable proportion of students from low socio - economic backgrounds faces a series of challenges that can undermine the effectiveness of his actions.

The lumpsum has led to the clustering of schools, creating large - scale semi-private organizations, with a thick management layer that consumes a considerable proportion of the lumpsum before the revenue flows to the classrooms — where it is intended to be going.

Many teachers spend a considerable proportion of their instructional time in whole - class discussion or question - and - answer sessions, but these sessions tend to rehearse existing knowledge rather than create new knowledge for students.

Ultimately a considerable proportion of the prisoners were released for want of sufficient evidence that they were Communists.

This was shown in England at Modern Art Oxford and other venues, and although prints from this exhibition were available for purchase, Neville decided that a considerable proportion of any sales be donated to Port Glasgow based charities.

This request will be repeated over the next time, as it seems time not only from an historical perspective, and in honour of the veterans, but also to make the best out of the WWII disaster along which it might be possible to explain antrophogen weather modification and climate change of considerable proportion, as previously discussed at this site (October 2007), and which is reproduce hereafter, with few modification:

The considerable proportion of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation — 17.4 percent annually — must also be taken into account.

The historic carbon loss from 5 billion hectares of degraded agricultural soils is in the order of 175 GtC — a considerable proportion of the 225 GtC anthropogenic carbon remaining in the atmosphere.

Lawford's interest in developing searchable computer databases for legal materials developed in the mid-1960s, and by September 1968, he had entered into discussions with I.B.M. to establish a project of «considerable proportions.»

And it also happens that a considerable proportion of these people happen to have Xbox + Kinect.

In any event, the nominee to head the Patent Office shouldn't be the face of opposition to patent reform that was championed by the White House, passed by a majority of the House, and supported by a considerable proportion of Senators.

Construction and building industry employs a considerable proportion of population under its varied employment venues.

Relationship violence afflicts a considerable proportion of nonmarital births.

In my opinion, the circumstances of this case called for a head sentence of approximately 5 years imprisonment, of which a considerable proportion should have been served before the respondent became eligible for release.

Using an abbreviated version of the Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Questionnaire (LSDQ; Cassidy and Asher in Child Dev 63:250 — 365, 1992), the majority of children reported friendships, yet a considerable proportion also reported social difficulties.

These findings suggest that a considerable proportion of treatment - seeking problem gamblers report ADHD and that their clinical profile is complicated by the presence of high impulsivity and cluster B personality disorders.

These autoregressive effect models eliminate a considerable proportion of potentially confounding variance and increase the validity of the influence of specific predictors at time 1 on outcomes at time 2 (Schlüter et al. 2006).