an increasing proportion continues vs an increasing proportion continue

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'An increasing proportion continues' is correct when referring to a singular proportion that is continuing to do something. 'An increasing proportion continue' is correct when referring to a plural subject, such as 'proportions,' that are continuing to do something.

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an increasing proportion continues

This phrase is correct when referring to a singular proportion that is continuing to do something.

This phrase is used when talking about a singular proportion that is increasing and continuing to do something. The verb 'continues' agrees with the singular subject 'proportion.'

Examples:

An increasing proportion continues to show improvement in test scores.
An increasing proportion continues to invest in renewable energy sources.

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Transactions made by electronic payment instruments account for an increasing proportion of the volume and value of domestic and cross-border payments and this trend is set to accelerate further as markets and e-payment technologies continue to develop.
They should ensure that an increasing proportion of these allowances is auctioned.
This is particularly worrying since these young people form an increasing proportion of the youth population especially in urban areas.
Low birth rates and an increasing proportion of elderly people threaten to greatly increase the support burden for those of working age from around 2010 onwards.
Low birth rates and an increasing proportion of older people threatens to considerably increase the maintenance burden for people of working age from around 2010 onwards.
Consequently, aircraft noise has become a plague to an increasing proportion of the population.
These days, an increasing proportion of refugees in Europe hail from the developing world, and we are less hospitable.
Accordingly, an increasing proportion of Community programmes is managed by the administrations of the Member States' territorial authorities.
The ERA will be possible if an increasing proportion of funding for research can be managed at European level.
The EU is facing a demographic challenge marked by low birth rates and an increasing proportion of elderly people.
I must criticize the rapporteur not only for neglecting these aspects but also for wanting to allocate an increasing proportion of future appropriations to urban areas.
Any such rules should not give incentives to increase emissions and should ensure that an increasing proportion of these allowances is auctioned.
Mrs Harkin raises an issue that is very relevant today with an increasing proportion of our population getting progressively older.
With people living longer, and an increasing proportion of the population over 65, it is also interesting that a lot of medical trials do not include elderly patients, although this matter is beginning to be addressed.
The Russian army is chiefly making attacks on the civilian population, an increasing proportion of whom are being forced to flee to neighbouring regions, only to be packed together in inhuman conditions.
Indeed, Parliament's report merely offers partial suggestions for adapting the labour market, the social systems and healthcare to the supposedly inevitable presence of an increasing proportion of elderly people in the future.
It is also important to note that an increasing proportion of the financial resources of humanitarian NGOs comes from financial institutions, particularly European institutions.
It is therefore especially important that the European Commission's Food and Veterinary Office, the FVO, should conduct an increasing proportion of its on-site inspections in third countries.
Since 2000, an increasing proportion of the salmon fished have been wild salmon, and last year in the Gulf of Bothnia they accounted for more than half.
Already some 40% of natural gas supply for the EU comes from Russia, and an increasing proportion of oil imports now come from the CIS countries, where known reserves are larger than those in the United States and North Sea combined.

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A growing percentage continues
A rising share continues
An expanding fraction continues
A larger segment continues
A higher ratio continues