A record proportion of freshmen said they were interested in pursuing advanced degrees: 58.7 percent, as against 48.3 percent in 1980.

How was he able to woo a record proportion of whites?

As a result, it appears that corporations paid out a record low proportion of their profits to shareholders.

And mothers are in the labor force in record proportion; in 1991, 58 percent of mothers with children under age 6 worked outside the home.

The bleeps over the radios and in car cameras seemed to have reached record proportions.

The salmon runs this year are expected to be of record proportions.

The 2007-08 season was one of record proportions for Shawnee Mission East.

It appeared that the non-Republican turnout reached record proportions for a Republican primary, partly because of local ballot issues in some places.

It was an onslaught of record proportions, in Baltimore franchise history, at least.

Because younger generations of women are going to college in record proportions, the likelihood that they will keep their birth names should, if anything, increase.