Below you will find example sentences with "highest proportion". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Highest Proportion in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: highest
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "highest proportion" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as for the highest proportion of female, had the highest proportion in absolute, per, cent and income stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with highest estimate, highest peak, highest rate, highest peak, highest rate and third highest, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with highest proportion
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The riding has the city’s highest visible minority population and highest proportion of university graduates. (16 words)
It is the highest proportion of missed appointments since 2017-18, when 6.7% went unattended. (16 words)
Software developers have the highest proportion of remote work vacancies in the IT sector at 56%. (16 words)
Within England, Leicester had the highest proportion of children aged under 16 in relative low income families (41.7 per cent) and the City of London had the highest proportion in absolute low income families (38.9 per cent). (39 words)
Inside the region, Hull has the highest proportion (16.7%) of schools with bad behaviour – the worst in England (Wandsworth and Bristol come joint second) – and York schools have the highest proportion (30%) of schools with outstanding behaviour. (38 words)
As Wigan’s highest proportion of properties (46 per cent) fall under the Band A category, the majority of residents in the borough will see an increase of just over £1 a week in total. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Within England, Leicester had the highest proportion of children aged under 16 in relative low income families (41.7 per cent) and the City of London had the highest proportion in absolute low income families (38.9 per cent).
Inside the region, Hull has the highest proportion (16.7%) of schools with bad behaviour – the worst in England (Wandsworth and Bristol come joint second) – and York schools have the highest proportion (30%) of schools with outstanding behaviour.
London has the lowest proportion of internet non-users (7.0%) while Northern Ireland continues to have the highest proportion (14.2%), followed by the North East of England (12.1%).
The riding has the city’s highest visible minority population and highest proportion of university graduates.
Washington, DC has the highest proportion of college graduates than any metropolitan area, is home to over twenty colleges and universities and has the highest-educated adult population in the country.
Arsenal's 2003/04 side were found to have the highest proportion of goals scored by one player in a title-winning side.
As Wigan’s highest proportion of properties (46 per cent) fall under the Band A category, the majority of residents in the borough will see an increase of just over £1 a week in total.
Brent was also within the top ten local authorities with the highest proportion of its bridge stock deemed to be sub-standard.
If Mongolia were to secure 34 percent of female representatives in the next parliamentary elections, Mongolia could earn the title for the highest proportion of female lawmakers across Asia.
Indeed, Africa has the highest proportion of cyclist and pedestrian fatalities, accounting for 44 per cent of the total number of road deaths.
It is the highest proportion of missed appointments since 2017-18, when 6.7% went unattended.
Lebanon is already one of the countries that is home to the highest proportion of elderly in the region.
Software developers have the highest proportion of remote work vacancies in the IT sector at 56%.
Southampton has the highest proportion of containers moved by rail in the UK, at up to 30 per cent.
The majority of cases (72%) were reported from primary healthcare facilities, while the highest proportion of cases reported from hospitals (approximately 50%) was in children under the age of one.
These two areas were also higher than the national average for the number of children living in relative low income families, with Peterborough having the highest proportion at 25 per cent.
At the other end of the spectrum, Edinburgh residents typically shell out 78 per cent of their monthly income on bills and outgoings, the highest proportion out of all the cities assessed.
Both hospitals are owned by for-profit corporations and happen to serve the highest proportion of Black Californians in the state.
It also heard that the highest proportion of deaths among people of working age in the region were among workers in processing plants and machine operatives.
It’s been dubbed ‘the land of the immortals’ because it has the highest proportion of centenarians anywhere in the world.