Example sentences of "has the high [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The increase in the number of elderly people , together with a rise in the proportion living alone , has boosted the number of small households , as too has the higher divorce rate .
2 Statistics also reflect a rise in accidents among children aged up to 16 , and Darlington still has the higher share of accidents involving 17 year olds and over .
3 Component 1 has the higher partition coefficient and thus moves through the column faster .
4 Good gall bladder contraction after breakfast is important because gall bladder bile has the highest cholesterol saturation index and concentration at that time and cholesterol crystals might precipitate easily .
5 The city now has the highest per-head rate of fatal police shootings in the country : double that of New York and nearly triple that of Chicago .
6 Endoscopy has the highest yield for any of the tests performed .
7 South West Water , for instance , has the highest standing charges in the country .
8 Once the correct order of probes has been established it is easy to fit the clones to this probe order , using an algorithm which essentially places each clone on that section of the probe order where it has the highest density of positives .
9 Britain has the highest emissions of sulphur dioxide — a prime cause of acid rain — in the EC .
10 Great Britain with Denmark has the highest proportion of lone parent families in the EC ( 14% ) .
11 Even today , Britain has the highest proportion in Europe of people of working age actually in jobs .
12 Britain has the highest proportion of population over 75 of any country in Europe .
13 The strongest growth of total employment was reported by the USSR , in Scandinavia ( which has the highest proportion of its population at work ) , and in a number of countries in central and eastern Europe such as Austria , Yugoslavia and Romania ( a broadly similar pattern is evident for manufacturing employment ) .
14 Does my hon. Friend the Minister agree that while Britain has the highest proportion of health costs funded by the public purse , the British public have shown their confidence in it by the fact that only 13 per cent .
15 In the European Community , the United Kingdom has the highest proportion of women in work , with the exception of Denmark .
16 At the same time , Wales has the highest proportion of heavy smokers among men with nearly one in five having 20 or more cigarettes a day .
17 The principality has the highest proportion of homes built more than 100 years ago .
18 BRITAIN has the highest proportion of over-60s in the European Community , a population survey reveals .
19 A cat inhibits the desire to chase the bird until it is ready so that it has the highest chance of success .
20 I think the key thing is to listen to that instinct as it 's most probably the thing that has the highest chance of being right .
21 In South Africa the Beef Shorthorn has the highest cow efficiency ratio of all the country 's breeds .
22 This nematode haemoglobin is chemically similar to myoglobin and has the highest affinity for oxygen of any known animal haemoglobin .
23 UK has the highest marriage rate in Europe and a divorce rate of twice the european average
24 Not surprisingly , the UK has the highest divorce rate in the Community .
25 America has the highest consumption per head in the world and 29 per cent of production , whereas China and India use only two per cent .
26 The latest Home Office figures show that Kent has the highest cautioning rate in the country .
27 This is that Basildon only swung 1.3 per cent to Labour ( and so stayed Tory ) because it has the highest Sun readership in the country ( half of all households there take it ) , whereas Hampstead fell to Glenda Jackson because it is top of the Guardian 's league ( 14 per cent of homes ) .
28 After Luxembourg , Denmark currently has the highest standard of living measured by gross domestic product per head .
29 There are several commercial sources , of which Hagaman of Westport , Washington State has the highest reputation .
30 However , Gwynedd still has the highest percentage of active sports-people , despite a drop of more than 6pc over the past two years .
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