tiny proportion
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftinyandproportion
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tiny
adjective
uk/ˈtaɪ.ni/us/ˈtaɪ.ni/
extremely ...
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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 oftinyandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Only atinyproportionresult in an appeal being allowed by the tribunal.
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These highly qualified staff form atinyproportionof the care workforce.
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The steel strike may cost a few million pounds, which is atinyproportionof the immense social security bill.
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But it is clear that the majority of thetinyproportionwho do go to custody re-offend after release.
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Only atinyproportionof daughters received land.
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This conjecture thus leads to the argument that the surviving removal orders are merely atinyproportionof the entire removal orders actually issued.
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Even a superficial accounting of the different climate forcing terms quickly demonstrates that anthropogenic radiative forcing represents only atinyproportionof the natural terms.
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The subset with these closer ties, known as the personal network, may be atinyproportionof the entire social network.
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This unease was all too understandable, since, as the city authorities were well aware, only a 'tinyproportion' of the population was adequately protected.
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The hospital catered for only atinyproportionof the population, and hospital inmates do not appear anywhere in the records of other welfare institutions.
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Clerical justices were atinyproportion, however : forty-nine places on the commissions were held by parish clergy, as against roughly two thousand held by knights and gentlemen.
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But these account for atinyproportionof psychopathological disorders.
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The voluntary movement was the catalyst, the pioneer, the innovator but it could do no more than reach atinyproportionof those in need of help.
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This, of course, is only atinyproportionof the total turnover of the crime business and of its profits.
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That is atinyproportionof the total that was anticipated.
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Happily, inter-union disputes, which were once a source of anxiety, have been diminishing recently and are now atinyproportionof disputes within industry.
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It is purely to exclude atinyproportionof what might be the relevant evidence that is discovered in the premises searched.
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Those cases were atinyproportionof the total number of cases.
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