Collocations withproportion
These are words often used in combination withproportion.
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alarming proportion
That is an alarming proportion, considering that the total number of working divers is about 950.
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astronomical proportions
I fear that the rates will reach astronomical proportions.
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catastrophic proportions
Fires broke out soon after the earthquake at midday, magnifying the disaster to catastrophic proportions and claiming the lives of tens of thousands of people.
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considerable proportion
This reflected the considerable proportion of refugees in the total population.
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corresponding proportion
For the 1850 census the corresponding proportion was 55 per cent and for the 1890 census 40 per cent.
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crisis proportions
There it has more or less reached crisis proportions.
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cumulative proportion
Estimated cumulative proportion of patients remaining in remission at follow-up.
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declining proportion
A trend of a declining proportion of pill users among the clinic patients is currently being observed.
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enormous proportion
Warships take an enormous proportion as compared with merchant ships.
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epic proportions
That is a constitutional change of epic proportions.
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epidemic proportions
Given these epidemic proportions, surprisingly little developmental research has focused on how children understand traumatic experiences.
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equal proportion
Only a small but equal proportion (four per cent) of men and women were single.
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exact proportion
Unfortunately, the exact proportion of right-handed individuals depends on the criteria used to define right- and left-hand use preferences.
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gigantic proportions
That is, the role of the state is simply to boost new bankable and commercially viable investment projects, usually of gigantic proportions.
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great proportion
This led to the increased importance of wage labour for a great proportion of the male textile workers.
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greatest proportion
In particular, the greatest proportion of acceptors of the most reliable methods was found among those reporting no occupation.
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growing proportion
But a growing proportion of individuals from the lower socio-economic groups also acquired new homes.
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high proportion
A high proportion of children's early multiword speech is produced from a developing set of slot-and-frame patterns.
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historic proportion
Indeed, these incongruities were sufficiently extensive to obscure even a pandemic of historic proportion.
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immense proportion
We had to pay for the war with an immense proportion of our foreign investments.
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in direct proportion to
As more and more individuals are brought within its ambit, the number of those who oppose it has grown in direct proportion.
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increased proportion
The increased proportion of female worms suggests that part of the developed immunity affected worm survival in the lungs.
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increasing proportion
An increasing proportion of women enter later life as divorced.
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large proportion
A large proportion of the discussion of models in the philosophy of science concerns the problem that reasoning by analogy is not logically valid.
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manageable proportions
To keep the analysis to manageable proportions, we reduce individual policy items to summary indices.
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massive proportion
Again, on the point of infrastructure, a country can devote a massive proportion of its available capital to roads, transport and so on.
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mean proportion
For each participant, a mean proportion of first syllable versus second syllable responses were computed.
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monumental proportions
The fragility of acid paper has created both a disaster and an opportunity of monumental proportions.
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overwhelming proportion
Once again, this is out of step with the overwhelming proportion of ongoing research in the field.
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proper proportion
Samples were collected using a stratified sampling scheme so that withinrow and between-row areas of the plot comprised the proper proportion of the composite sample.
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proportion of female
The increased proportion of female worms suggests that part of the developed immunity affected worm survival in the lungs.
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proportion of household
The proportion of household discontinuations by female heads was generally higher than it was for males.
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proportion of income
Three families were relieved in 1837 and this relief accounted for a similar proportion of income, at 5.1 per cent.
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proportion of male
They showed that the proportion of male-headed households that adopted improved wheat varieties (0.30) was significantly higher than of female-headed (de jure) households (0.14).
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proportion of output
For example, sharecropping involves advanced credit to the tenant in the form of deferred rent payment and input in exchange for a predetermined proportion of output but also labor.
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proportion of variance
As the figure shows, age contributes a large proportion of variance (2) to vocabulary, letter knowledge and speech discrimination (12, 25, and 11%, respectively).
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relative proportion
This distribution of observations represents well the relative proportion of time children in these classrooms spend each day in each context.
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sense of proportion
A sense of proportion and judgment in their combination and deployment is crucial in the critic or scholar.
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significant proportion
In many samples, a significant proportion of total mitochondrial expression was granted by only a few transcripts.
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similar proportion
Thus, inoculating dose and number of parasitic females are correlated measures and explain a similar proportion of the deviance in models of parasite fecundity.
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sizeable proportion
Most specifically, it will be suggested that such benches drew a sizeable proportion of their undoubted symbolic importance from their location within the church.
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small proportion
Changes such as were observed in this fetus occur in a small proportion of cases.
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staggering proportions
Associated with that is the question of what has been described as the dollar overhang, which is now of staggering proportions.
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substantial proportion
A substantial proportion of these occurrences of highly credible gastrointestinal symptoms may be manifestations of respiratory infections.
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tiny proportion
Only a tiny proportion of daughters received land.
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unprecedented proportions
That counter-insurgency war intensified during the 1980s and reached unprecedented proportions in the 1990s, as guerrilla forces increased their manpower and military capabilities.
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variable proportion
The variable proportion of matrix consists of vitric fragments and crystals similar to those in the overlying welded ignimbrite.
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varying proportion
This saving will be split between the passenger and the ratepayer in varying proportion.
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vast proportion
The vast proportion of my constituents appeared to be strongly opposed to entry.
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