Example sentences of "be that a [adj] proportion " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our experience at the Royal National Throat , Nose , and Ear Hospital over the past two years in a study of over 200 children aged 3–8 years with chronic ( more than six months ) or recurrent ( more than three episodes ) glue ear is that a high proportion ( over 80% ) have allergic rhinitis and that treatment of this is associated with resolution of the secretory otitis media in most cases . |
| 2 | Another problem with the vast number of previous publications on disturbed gastric function patients with DU is that a high proportion of the so called normal controls will have had disturbed gastric function due to unrecognised H pylori infection . |
| 3 | What appears to have happened in the last week of the campaign is that a large proportion of the ‘ Do n't Knows ’ plumped for the Conservatives , possibly in fear of rumoured Labour tax rises . |
| 4 | One reason why most IPOs are so lacklustre , the study concludes , is that a large proportion of them are ‘ growth ’ stocks : firms whose market price is high compared with its book value . |
| 5 | The result is that a large proportion of the elderly are solely dependent on the basic state pension , with supplementary benefit . |
| 6 | Yet the overwhelming opinion is that a significant proportion of lung cancer deaths in the UK are caused by radon , and that people who are likely to have long exposure to high radon levels are at extreme risk . |
| 7 | On the first issue , the problem with Assumption 1 is that a significant proportion of capital expenditure is not financed from loan . |
| 8 | The only encouraging news for the government contained within the opinion polls was that a sizable proportion of the electorate — up to 50 per cent in some key marginal constituencies — remained undecided on how they would vote . |
| 9 | It was that a significant proportion of the elderly population was an asset to the community if allowed to be economically active , but a burden , both to itself and to society , if forced to retire . |
| 10 | One finding of interest provided by the test with a calendar was that a high proportion of pupils in all attainment bands knew that dates in the following year fell a day later than the previous one . |