• I'm told that support for setting the cap for benefits for families at two children is around three quarters of the population.

    BBC: The politics of welfare cuts

  • Opening the debate on 26 March 2012, Mr Vaizey said three quarters of the population of England, Wales and Northern Ireland have access to high-speed broadband.

    BBC: Minister: UK is 'top internet economy'

  • Protesters have taken to the streets, complaining that although three quarters of the population have rejected genetically-modified food, the government consistently supports genetic engineering, supports the biotech companies and doesn't take action on their behalf.

    BBC: News | The Economy | Genetically modified decisions

  • Bank of America's U.S. flag-themed logo is apropos, for the company is the lone nationwide bank: It is in 31 states and the District of Columbia, encompassing three-quarters of the population.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The oil revenues of Equatorial Guinea, where three-quarters of the population live below the poverty line, are a state secret.

    ECONOMIST: Africa, oil and the West: Show us the money | The

  • About three-quarters of the population depends on the agricultural sector for its livelihood and the sector provides for about one-fifth of GDP.

    FORBES: Gambia

  • That prospect worries the three-quarters of the population who belong to smaller tribes.

    ECONOMIST: Uganda's biggest tribe calls for federalism and autonomy

  • The new primary schedule will compress the nomination process into about four weeks, with more than half America's states and three-quarters of its population voting in a feverish eight-day spell in March.

    ECONOMIST: The California primaries

  • Some three-quarters of the adult population are now in work, close to a record and some ten percentage points higher than in Europe.

    ECONOMIST: The economy

  • More than three-quarters of the Honduran population's daily calorie consumption comes from maize and beans, and Mitch destroyed an estimated 60% of these crops.

    ECONOMIST: Research from the ground up

  • Worse, President Chandrika Kumaratunga's plan for a more devolved system of government designed to win over the milder sort of Tamils has not only been rejected by the Tigers but has also run into stiff opposition from many Buddhists, who make up nearly three-quarters of the island's population.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

  • The country boasts more than 30 million mobile subscribers out of a population of around 49 million, and more than three quarters of Korean homes enjoy blazingly fast broadband.

    CNN: Future tech and puppy love in South Korea

  • The largest remaining short-wave broadcaster, VOA says it has no plans to junk its transmitters: its short-wave audience has actually grown over the past decade in countries like Myanmar (where it claims a quarter of the adult population listens, and three-quarters in rural areas).

    ECONOMIST: A cold-war stalwart goes out of fashion

  • Meanwhile, that Internet growth rolls on: Even though its online population is more than 338 million, three-quarters of the country has yet to use the Internet.

    FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

  • And Spain's cement mixers were on fire: three-quarters of a million homes were built in 2006, half the number in America, whose population is seven times larger.

    ECONOMIST: Spanish banks

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