Below you will find example sentences with "ethnic minority". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Ethnic Minority in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: minority
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.3 words

Words in this phrase

ethnic minority

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • ethnic can mean: Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins. Frequent word
  • minority can mean: The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

army an ethnic minority army in 1× been one ethnic minority chief constable 1× been one ethnic minority police and 1× black and ethnic minority communities saying 1× bristol s ethnic minority communities and 1× from an ethnic minority are disproportionately 1× from an ethnic minority background 1× from an ethnic minority background and 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a bangladeshi boy 1× a nine year 1× babbassa helps disadvantaged 1× covid 19 is 1× filipino people make 1× for example he 1×

Common sentence endings:

48 were women 1× and the force 1× by covid 19 1× christians generally baptist 1× deep rooted issue 1× education and business 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

people 5× first 4× groups 3× greater 3× background 3× communities 3× police 2× ever 2× covid 2× disproportionately 2× part 2× backgrounds 2×

Related phrases

ethnic groups ethnic group minority leader house minority ethnic cleansing ethnic minorities senate minority minority groups ethnic armenians ethnic conflict

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around minority:

house minority 15× minority groups 10× small minority 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

ethnic minorities ethnic groups ethnic group ethnic conflict ethnic cleansing ethnic armenians

Just after it in the phrase index:

europa league european central european championships european commission european council european countries

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

ethnic groups ethnic group ethnic cleansing ethnic minorities ethnic armenians ethnic conflict

Same ending:

house minority senate minority small minority

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "ethnic minority" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as army an ethnic minority army in, been one ethnic minority chief constable, people, first and groups stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with ethnic groups, ethnic group, minority leader, house minority, minority groups and small minority, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with ethnic minority

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Babbassa helps disadvantaged young people from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds into work, education and business. (17 words)

A nine-year-old girl from Horsham needs a stem cell donor from an ethnic minority background. (17 words)

Covid-19 is hitting ethnic minorities harder: People from an ethnic minority are disproportionately affected by covid-19. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

For example, he said that racial and ethnic minority patients experienced greater hardship not only in terms of worse mobility skills but also in terms of worse emotional well-being, increased stigma, greater pain and insufficient social support. (38 words)

The Tatmadaw has deployed its indiscriminate “four cuts” strategy against the very people it swears to protect; the heinous tactics once used with impunity in ethnic minority areas have now been set loose on the Bamar heartland. (37 words)

The current wave of Asian immigration forms part of a long-term trend, in which the rise of the overall ethnic minority population is to make non-Latino whites a minority in the US by 2045. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

There’s only been one ethnic minority police and crime commissioner and there’s only ever been one ethnic minority chief constable.

More than one million people of religious or ethnic minority groups have been incarcerated, not one million minority ethnic groups.

You pardoned a man who literally established a concentration camp and targeted an ethnic minority specifically because it was an ethnic minority which he could imprison within it.

Covid-19 is hitting ethnic minorities harder: People from an ethnic minority are disproportionately affected by covid-19.

The current wave of Asian immigration forms part of a long-term trend, in which the rise of the overall ethnic minority population is to make non-Latino whites a minority in the US by 2045.

Babbassa helps disadvantaged young people from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds into work, education and business.

For example, he said that racial and ethnic minority patients experienced greater hardship not only in terms of worse mobility skills but also in terms of worse emotional well-being, increased stigma, greater pain and insufficient social support.

He will be the first person from an ethnic minority background to be first minister and the first Muslim to lead the country – as well as the youngest ever first minister.

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However, joining during the year of the St Paul's Riots was a tense time with a lot of distrust between Bristol's ethnic minority communities and the force.

Newly formed pro-democracy insurgent groups have in some areas teamed up with ethnic minority guerrillas who have been campaigning for decades for greater autonomy.

Regularly demonstrating that girls from ethnic minority backgrounds can be firefighters, Shreya has also excelled and taken on additional levels of responsibility.

The Mayor of London defended the controversial use of stop and search, which critics say disproportionately targets black and ethnic minority communities, saying it is “an important part of the police’s armoury”.

The Tatmadaw has deployed its indiscriminate “four cuts” strategy against the very people it swears to protect; the heinous tactics once used with impunity in ethnic minority areas have now been set loose on the Bamar heartland.

This decision sends a distressing message to ethnic minority communities across the country, signalling a lack of urgency in addressing this deep-rooted issue.

A Bangladeshi boy displays a bullet, allegedly shot from Myanmar during fighting between Myanmar security forces and Arakan Army, an ethnic minority army, in Ghumdhum, Bandarban, Bangladesh.

A nine-year-old girl from Horsham needs a stem cell donor from an ethnic minority background.

Filipino people make up the largest ethnic minority group in the district, and many of them say they’re discriminated against for their English-speaking skills and have trouble finding high-paying jobs.

However he said there were 'strong arguments' for fielding a woman or ethnic minority candidate against the former party leader.

Its latest pay gap report shows a quarter of all new joiners in 2022/23 were from an ethnic minority background, and almost 48% were women.

Most of the residents in Khampat town are from the Chin ethnic minority, the vast majority of whom are Christians, generally Baptist.

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