manageable proportions
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manageable
adjective
uk/ˈmæn.ɪ.dʒə.bəl/us/ˈmæn.ə.dʒə.bəl/
easy or possible to ...
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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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If there are other people who are left after those are absorbed, they will be quite amanageableproportion.
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To keep the analysis to manageable proportions, we reduce individual policy items to summary indices.
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These modular faculties automatically (innately and through maturation) parse the flux of human experience into manageable proportions.
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In fact, purported norms are usually summary digests of lone analysts and anthropologists struggling to reduce the flux of observed social experiences into manageable proportions for report.
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The majority of these houses have now been requisitioned and the waiting list for married quarters in this area has fallen to manageable proportions.
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In some miraculous way he was able to bring it all down to lucid and manageable proportions.
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If such a list is to be of use, however, it must be kept to manageable proportions.
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Altogether, therefore, we have reduced the problem of the drain upon the sterling area to more manageable proportions.
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Following the original list of 1,500 substances, consultants were engaged to reduce the list to more manageable proportions.
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You would thus reduce the number of people who have to pass examinations to manageable proportions.
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Only by the latter course can we really hope to bring unemployment in those areas down to any manageable proportions.
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In this way, the task can be kept to manageable proportions.
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Can we not reduce the whole matter to manageable proportions as a matter of internal and domestic concern alone?
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The third policy is to reduce our population to manageable proportions.
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I believe that some more steps are necessary to reduce to manageable proportions the particular problems of differing areas.
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But, of course, we do not want traffic reduced to manageable proportions.
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In some ways their difficulties might be resolved or reduced to manageable proportions by adequate housing.
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We have had to concentrate our attention on violence between partners and ex-partners in order to keep our inquiry within manageable proportions.
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I am now having a second go at trying to cut down the size of the report so that it appears in manageable proportions.
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