Sentences with phrase «huge proportion»

A lot are too scared to say anything, and a huge huge proportion of the population sees it as futile to do anything about it.

As the airport grew in huge proportion, plans were underway to build a bridge connecting the mainland with the airport.

It was a scandal of HUGE proportions at the time.

Huge proportions of young people are also missing from the electoral register.

Likewise, Van Roy and his colleagues note, in past eras several species of fish and sharks have evolved to huge proportions by directly exploiting the vast bounty at the base of the ocean's food chain.

That is to say, these noble persons made criminal accusations, most of which were just about viable, argued without blatant lies and supported by some evidence, with a view to condemning fellow senators and then snatching huge proportions of their doomed colleagues» rich estates.

A small child becomes a giant; meters wide and the funny, often disturbing jokey pranks that take place in his narratives are blown up into huge proportions.

But lost in all the hype is an important message: It's not too late to save a really, really huge proportion of the ice the frozen continent contains — and thus, virtually every coastal city on Earth.

«Huge proportions of the plant and animal species that form the foundation of our food supply are just as endangered [as wildlife] and are getting almost no attention,» said Ann Tutwiler, director general of... Read More

Despite all of these people that desire financial freedom, a huge proportion of them are not able to get there.

Coral reefs are the most biodiverse places on the planet, and a huge proportion of marine life depends on them.

A huge proportion of life depends on them — reefs cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor, yet 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycles in them.

That's a big deal for Disney shareholders as the sports network makes up a huge proportion of the Mouse House's profits.

That appears to be part of the reason why Britain's Sun newspaper took its paywall down recently — because it had lost a huge proportion of its readership, and that meant it could not be as influential.

A huge proportion of international workers joining U.S. tech companies are from India.

While Vanguard founder Jack Bogle is right that U.S. companies have a huge proportion of their business overseas, the fact that performance can vary by so much is evidence that one does not get enough international diversification by owning a total U.S. stock index fund.

A huge proportion of businesses I talk to now have no offline presence and built their business to operate solely online.

«Moving these «holydays» (how the etymology of that word says so much about what they were to our culture) represents a symbolic retreat of huge proportions; conceding the notion that the secular world and the imperative of its ephemeral commitments must now be considered more real than the way in which the divine has entered our history and shaped it.»

And as for Jewish holidays, do nt get me started, a huge proportion of jews do nt practice their faith, and some are religious two days a year.

DNA sequence data shows that closely related but biologically wholly isolated species share a huge proportion of their DNA, often more than 99 percent (humans and chimpanzees share about 99 percent of their genomes).

This is a problem of huge proportions.

Bear in mind that a huge proportion of the early church were slaves.

Not too long ago, a Gallup poll indicated a huge proportion of men — 76 percent — would chose to work out of the home than «stay at home and take care of the house and family» while just 51 percent of women said the same.

A recent Gallup poll indicates a huge proportion of men — 76 percent — would chose to work out of the home than «stay at home and take care of the house and family» while just 51 percent of women said the same.

But it's evidently not OK for a lot more men than women; a just released Gallup poll indicates a huge proportion of men — 76 percent — would chose to work out of the home than «stay at home and take care of the house and family» while just 51 percent of women said the same.

When she convened her first student stress conference six years ago, Stanford lecturer Denise Clark Pope never imagined the annual event would grow to huge proportions.

In aggregate the payroll tax accounts for a huge proportion of federal revenue, as Figure 1 shows.

They dominated the media coverage, and took up a huge proportion of campaigning time.

It's a huge proportion of the time we have on this planet, and it impacts on so much more than just our bank balance: our health, our relationships, our aspirations.

In an area with a huge proportion of the world's oil, political instability is never welcomed.

A huge proportion of the money spent in each general election is simply wasted in a futile struggle by the main parties to be seen to be outspending each other.

It emphasised that large defence equipment projects represent a huge proportion of the costs, citing the cancellation of the Nimrod aircraft and the delay of the Astute submarines as costing the taxpayer # 3.4 billion and # 2 billion respectively.

As the Conservative Party veer to the right in fear of losing votes to UKIP and the Lib Dems remain in a political no - man's land where they are losing a huge proportion of their votes to Labour (I think it may even be almost 50 %), it is now the duty to the Labour Party to grasp the centre ground which is now open territory.

And he was constantly urging that Britain should enter the Eurozone, which would have been another policy disaster of huge proportions.

Many of these people have voted tory in the past, many have never voted tory and still many have never even voted but they are certainly a huge proportion of the country.

In the US and the UK, the richest percentile control a huge proportion of wealth.

«A huge proportion of the factory site is full of very toxic waste,» said Colin Toogood, the report's author.

For many Scientists, a huge proportion of available time is spent on administrative and regulatory tasks that do not increase the quality or safety of research.

While governments argue over energy policy, a huge proportion of the world population is still stuck in energy poverty.

While health officials have no idea how many people might be infected with hand, foot, and mouth disease in Cambodia, Buchy speculates that the population is largely naive to the virus and that «we may have a huge proportion of the child population that is not totally immune.»

A huge proportion of the planet's mass would consist of water.

They have the opportunity to grow to huge proportions, especially if you exercise them correctly.

Sarah and Robin were lucky enough to be able to get married in Sarah's parents» garden, which allowed them to save a huge proportion of their budget, while creating a really DIY friendly day, where... Read more»

Howard doesn't lift music verbatim but it would be hard to argue that a huge proportion of the score isn't substantively a rearrangement of other film music.

Good seating is always limited, as SXSW allows «filmmaker guests» in first not to mention another huge proportion of the seats are reserved for people who clearly are more important than the ones standing in line at the crack of dawn to get these special passes.

It's a post-apocalyptic world where a huge proportion of the population have been infected by a plague turning them into forever wandering, blood thirsty, undead creatures; some still have a little human left inside them, while others (known as Boneys) are skeletal creatures devoted to eating anything and everything with a heartbeat.