Meanings of higher percentages in English

In all, 12 polling stations in rural Limerick returned boxes with higher percentages of No votes.

Therefore, it is foreseen that significantly higher percentages of budgets will be spent on palliative care.

Women, and people from Asia, Africa and South America have higher percentages of supertasters in their ranks.

The former show an incidence of less than 1%, while higher percentages are reported in the latter.

In addition, higher ara-CTP levels were found in bone marrows that had higher percentages of cells in S phase.

Women are also being sent to prison in higher percentages than men, though not, of course in actual numbers.

About thirty percent of New Zealanders contracted swine flu in 2009, with some groups like children posting even higher percentages.

Other investigations conducted in American cities give substantially the same results, although certain other investigations in English cities give higher percentages.

It follows, then, that the older ages have the higher percentages of drop-outs when this basis of the computation is employed.

In rats, we also found lower percentages of classical monocytes and higher percentages of nonclassical monocytes in pregnant versus nonpregnant rats.

Households of ART-treated HIV-positive children exhibited lower economic status, lower levels of education, and higher percentages of unmarried caregivers with higher unemployment rates.

With the exception of Slovenia, these breakaway states had higher percentages of ethnic Serbs than the mere 10 per cent that Kosovo has!

The higher percentages of hybrids in both wild populations and progeny than the homozygotes indicated a potential heterosis in the apple snail populations.

During the elimination of syphilis, significantly higher percentages of cases were imported and lower percentages of patients reported cocaine use or female commercial sex.

Additionally, growing worldwide demand for meat could cause some food shortages if higher percentages of corn, wheat and soy are used to feed livestock.

The supported concepts indicate that appropriately sized landscapes should contain ≥ 40% forest cover, although higher percentages are likely needed in the tropics.