sizeable portion

collocation in English

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sizeable
adjective
uk
/ˈsaɪ.zə.bəl/us
/ˈsaɪ.zə.bəl/
large:
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portion
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɔː.ʃən/us
/ˈpɔːr.ʃən/
a part or share of ...
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(Definition ofsizeableandportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These reversals represent asizeableportionof the major legislation from each chamber and each year.
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This suggests that it is indeed some measurable stance on economic and redistributive issues which accounts for asizeableportionof the initial effect attributed to class position.
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There will always be asizeableportionof leaseholders who have lived in their flats for one, two or just under three years.
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And asizeableportionof its national wealth is dedicated to this purpose.
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Therefore, the ups and downs of the railway industry have a good deal to do with a verysizeableportionof the population.
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The city, however, suffered the loss of asizeableportionof its industrial base after 1980.
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Handloom weavers continued to make up asizeableportionof the workforce in outlying rural areas.
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A protracted moult like the one described above would leave them vulnerable to predators for asizeableportionof the year.
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Asizeableportionof the population who were previously against the handover found themselves living with the adjustments.
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Agriculture, while of shrinking importance to the economy over the past four decades, offers part-time employment to asizeableportionof the populace.
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Asizeableportionof the population that was previously against the handover found itself living with the adjustments.
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Sizeable portions of the readers and audience could not detect any particular leanings at all, and this was especially the case for television.
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To be sure, sizeable portions of partisans discussed politics only with persons of the same political affiliation.
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