Example sentences of "find [conj] the proportion " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that the proportion of over-70s registered for a proxy/postal vote varied from 0.7 per cent to 25 per cent in different parts of the country ; this variation has little or nothing to do with geographical or demographic factors . |
| 2 | He also found that the proportion of school pupils staying on after the minimum school leaving age responded to changes in registered adult unemployment . |
| 3 | The Policy Studies Institute ( PSI ) ( Smith and Gray 1983 ) study of police and people in London found that the proportion stopped by the Metropolitan Police were 63 per cent of Afro-Caribbeans , 44 per cent for whites and 18 per cent for Asians , and that of those arrested 17 per cent were Afro-Caribbean . |
| 4 | She found that the proportion of time taken up by pauses varied considerably between subjects , although there was also considerable variation within subjects depending on the topic of conversation . |
| 5 | In fact , a study by the OECD ( 1982 ) , found that the proportion of GNP absorbed by public expenditure between 1954 and the early 1980s on ‘ merit goods ’ ( education , health and housing ) and ‘ income maintenance ’ ( pensions , sickness , family and unemployment benefits ) had doubled from 14 to 28% , as an average across all the advanced industrialized countries . |
| 6 | ( 1982 ) found that the proportions of bedwetting children were higher when the child showed other behavioural disturbance . |
| 7 | Looking at five sets of data relating to different police areas , the author finds that the proportion of defendants given bail who are found guilty of offences committed while they were on bail is around 10 to 12 per cent. , rising to some 17 per cent . |
| 8 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 9 | In a major study of sexual offences conducted by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology between 1950 and 1954 in which 3000 cases involving sexual offences were investigated , it was found that the proportion of offenders recorded by the police as having committed carnal knowledge of girls aged 13 to 16 who were not brought before the courts was much higher ( 46 per cent. ) than for men charged with other heterosexual offences ( 12 per cent . ) . |
| 10 | It was also found that the proportion of students withdrawing was highest in technology , engineering and science subjects and lowest in vocational subjects . |
| 11 | America 's heavy spending on military R&D accounts for much of this difference , but when military spending is removed from the figures for both countries , Dr Mowery and Dr Treece still find that the proportion of R&D financed by companies is higher in Japan . |
| 12 | Accordingly , the tenant may find that the proportion of rent to profit increases . |