Example sentences of "[that] only a small proportion " in BNC.
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| 1 | She emphasised that only a small proportion of the 30 million eggs eaten daily in the UK would be affected . |
| 2 | Scientists are concerned that their increasing use may be having a damaging effect on river and animal life , although it is acknowledged that only a small proportion of the phosphate in our rivers and lakes comes from domestic sources . |
| 3 | If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage . |
| 4 | The designer , aided by the development process must try to ensure that only a small proportion of teachers fall at each fence — a forbidding challenge . |
| 5 | However , it is widely known that only a small proportion of such qualifying mergers are referred , and further that vertical mergers are a small proportion of the total . |