increasing proportion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandproportion
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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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 ofincreaseandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofincreasing proportion
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Anincreasingproportionof women enter later life as divorced.
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These levies constitute anincreasingproportionof government income and finance a significant amount of regional and local welfare provision.
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The rapid increase in cloth production per household or per capita implies that domestic weavers devoted anincreasingproportionof their working hours to weaving.
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It has not decreased despite theincreasingproportionof women undergoing procedures as the result of male factor infertility (42).
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The aggradation of the pinnacles, withincreasingproportionof metazoan builders, was followed during the continuous rise and eventual stillstand of sea-level.
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Anincreasingproportionof the oocytes formed a pronucleus as the culture period was prolonged.
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Current trends suggest that anincreasingproportionof divorcing couples will be childless.
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This is important since anincreasingproportionof women are divorced or never formally married.
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In industrialised countries, where anincreasingproportionof the population is over 65 years of age, public health immunisation programmes are progressively targeting the elderly.
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Inevitably, as the various cohorts of property owners age, anincreasingproportionwill be women.
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With each higher level of education anincreasingproportionof women stated that they had delayed the first pregnancy.
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With anincreasingproportionof older people in the population, the frequency of peripheral neuropathy is constantly increasing in the developed world.
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Some of it again, anincreasingproportion, bears the stigmata of postmodernity.
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As anincreasingproportionof first marriages ends in divorce, the sequence of a life-long marriage ending in widowhood decreasingly applies.
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These estimates indicate a dose-response relation between infection in the index children and anincreasingproportionof infected family members.
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This is characterized by a decrease in the average age of infection, with anincreasingproportionof those aged <5 years acquiring infection.
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There is thus anincreasingproportionof single ownerships with the decline in the size of ownership.
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In addition, decreasing nuptiality may explain theincreasingproportionof older people who live alone.
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