high proportion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhighandproportion
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high
adjective
uk/haɪ/us/haɪ/
(especially of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top ...
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proportion
noun
uk/prəˈpɔː.ʃən/us/prəˈpɔːr.ʃən/
the number or amount of a group or part of something when compared to ...
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(Definition ofhighandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhigh proportion
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Ahighproportionof children's early multiword speech is produced from a developing set of slot-and-frame patterns.
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Ahighproportion(91 per cent) of the 205 respondents in this sample who had an additional handrail reported using it.
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Paradoxically the rapid decline of fertility has meant that a rising and nowhighproportionof all sons are only and eldest sons.
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Five local authority areas with ahighproportionof older homeowners (and thus potential self-funding residents) were selected for insights into local perspectives.
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However, if such an effect were to occur, an extremelyhighproportionof birch woodlands would have to be under this management practice.
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The current distribution of property rights shows ahighproportionof land owned by private agents.
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Both presented with ahighproportionof internal state reference and low proportions of assertions of another's internal state and explanations.
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Laterality defects were found in an abnormalhighproportion(11%).
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The mortality is high due to ahighproportionof severe malformations, extracardiac problems and factors associated with prematurity.
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Both of these grasses had high rates of leaf appearance and extension and ahighproportionof cell content in the dry matter.
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The only glimmer of unity among this diversity was thehighproportionof papers relating to women's studies - itself an extremely diverse field of inquiry.
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Such a result was observed even if there was ahighproportionof tied values (zeros).
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It is worth noting that concrete action verbs had a particularlyhighproportionof infinitives reflecting modal use.
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Taken together, throwing away terms of high enough grade and the removal of terms with even l after summation removes ahighproportionof commutators.
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A positive relationship was found between 20% of residential home patients who used ahighproportionof primary care services.
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Moreover, thehighproportionof isolates resistant to kanamycin and nalidixic acid is striking.
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Insider systems have few listed companies, high levels of concentration of ownership, and ahighproportionof crossshareholding between firms.
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These questions cannot be easily tackled in endemic areas with highly diverse parasite populations and ahighproportionof multiply infected individuals.
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It is not surprising that their principal concern was with thehighproportionof destitute pilgrims.
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