Sentences with phrase «large proportion of the population»

In many states, and especially in cities, large proportions of the population live in apartment buildings, condos, or other buildings with multiple tenants.

A very large proportion of the population is affected by serious genetic defects.

«Those who had led the rebellion had under - estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do,» she remembers.

In markets where homeownership has become increasingly unaffordable and unattainable for large proportions of the population, there is a clear market failure to address.

While Sony claims the product is optimized for Xperia devices, it is compatible with all Androids running Jelly Bean 4.3 and above, which comprises a fairly large proportion of the population these days.

«But you have large proportions of the population who don't have access to those services.»

«There is a large proportion of the population that remains concerned with the possibility of oil spills and environmental problems, but the argument about economic benefits has gained traction over the past few months.»

The coffee growing communities in Vietnam make up a large proportion of the population.

I can understand how this kind of story sells papers by the million and I understand that this is how the The Sun and The News of the World and the Daily Mirror operate, hell I even understand that to a very large extent they do so because that is what a large proportion of the population wants to read, sick as it might sound there are people who really get off on this stuff.

Parenting programs have been successful at teaching positive parenting techniques and improving behaviour of children.5 Given that a large proportion of the population needs to be taught, education will need to reach beyond just families with overt problems.

A large proportion of the population believe that the system is rigged and the odds are stacked against them, but their feelings are often fatalistic.

This seems desirable as the chamber will be representing a larger proportion of the population.

To a significant extent, these interests might be considered diametrically opposed from the interests of a large proportion of the population.

In the UK the phrase «middle class» refers to a large proportion of the population who, broadly speaking, earn more money than they need to pay rent and bills, clothe themselves, eat food etc..

We re there any countries (in recent history - say, after 500 AD) that can unambiguously be considered Socialist, but which did NOT have a real or pretend representative elected legislative body (where voting is open to a large proportion of the population)?

When a large proportion of the population is protected — known as herd immunity — the risk of future epidemics may be low.»

«More attention should be paid to the safety of ART offspring as they now account for the large proportion of the population,» says He - Feng Huang, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Affiliated Women's Hospital and Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China.

In many other countries, however, the CVD burden dwarfs that of cancer, and a large proportion of the populations will lose their lives prematurely to heart disease and stroke.»

«Our findings show that the risk of invasive breast cancer is increased in postmenopausal women with normal BMI and higher levels of body fat, meaning that a large proportion of the population has an unrecognized risk of developing cancer.»

These countries have both large proportions of their populations living in absolute poverty and good survey data to ground truth any predictions made by the computer.

«Depression continues to affect a large proportion of the population, many of whom do not respond to conventional treatments,» said Dr. Scott Krakower, a psychiatrist who reviewed the study.

Adrenal fatigue affects a large proportion of the population, so today we will look closely at the 5 essentials for overcoming adrenal fatigue naturally.

For a large proportion of the population, however, the effect of higher - carbohydrate diets, particularly those enriched in refined carbohydrates, coupled with the rising incidence of overweight and obesity, creates a metabolic state that can favor a worsening of the atherogenic dyslipidemia that is characterized by elevated triglycerides, reduced HDL cholesterol, and increased concentrations of small, dense LDL particles (6, 7).

As with the national data, we should be mindful that demographic changes can affect achievement trends, especially as Hispanic students make up an ever - larger proportion of our population.

Since 1970 a larger proportion of the population make much more than the median, which is sufficient to point out that there is likely to be a bigger difference in perception of «a lot» now than back then.

These resources have been obtained with the help of slaves who eventually made up the largest proportion of the population.

In those countries, large proportions of the population are children or teenagers, who could contribute either to a large workforce and economic gains or — in the absence of education and jobs — to instability and conflict.

Because of the obesity crisis, a large proportion of the population has trouble getting themselves on and off a standard 14» high toilet.

«This is a serious concern because a large proportion of the population lives in arid regions to the west of the Andes,» said Antoine Rabatel, the lead author of the study and a scientist with the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France, in an interview with the Guardian.

There is a large proportion of the population living in what we would regard as an alternative reality — Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol

The mineral wealth of the region in particular attracted immigrants from Chile, and Chileans seeking temporary work rather than a fixed domicile now constitute the largest proportion of the population.

Changing the behaviour of a large proportion of the population is not easy and will require the government to adopt coherent and effective strategies with regard to treatment and prevention.

A large proportion of the population base is that of students due to the abundance of higher education facilities in the city.

Because relationship dissolution affects a large proportion of the population, this remains an important public health issue.