sizeable proportion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsizeableandproportion
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sizeable
adjective
uk/ˈsaɪ.zə.bəl/us/ˈsaɪ.zə.bəl/
large:
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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 ofsizeableandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Most specifically, it will be suggested that such benches drew asizeableproportionof their undoubted symbolic importance from their location within the church.
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As in previous studies, children did make the relative clause refer to the main clause subject in asizeableproportionof their responses.
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Asizeableproportionof the sample (44.9%) lived with a single parent, and more than one third received public assistance (36.2%).
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Although statistics on recruits' geographical origins are scanty at the moment, available documents suggest that asizeableproportionof corps members were recruited from the province in which they served.
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Asizeableproportionof the world's population now has access to an almost unlimited quantity and diversity of music, representing thousands of cultures and subcultures and centuries of musical traditions.
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By drawing attention to this, we hoped to secure a positive response from practices that might otherwise have refused, and we guessed that they might constitute asizeableproportion.
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An investigation of the pragmatic function of the first person subject pronouns revealed that asizeableproportionof these subjects did not serve an obvious contrastive pragmatic function.
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This will absorb asizeableproportionof the unemployed skills in the construction industry.
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That concluded that asizeableproportionof people receiving conventional cancer treatments also used complementary therapies, from which they derived psychological benefits.
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Asizeableproportionof environmental pollution is created by small businesses.
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Asizeableproportionof that increase is due to debt relief measures.
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But, taken all together, the goods covered currently by resale price maintenance represent asizeableproportionof the consumer's everyday expenditure.
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Asizeableproportionof the inmate population in police cells is actually sentenced.
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It is asizeableproportionwhich we feel cannot be dismissed as a mere luxury commodity.
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In some cases, we can identify a whole group or asizeableproportion—for example, the over-80s—as needing help.
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Recent censuses confirm that of those who are of working age, asizeableproportionare already in full or part-time work.
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I stressed that the coalition did not simply consist of communities of faith schools although they constitute asizeableproportionof the movement.
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That is asizeableproportion, but not one that is rapidly increasing.
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As he said, he represents asizeableproportionof the population, but no more than sizeable—measurable, let us say, and certainly not a majority attitude.
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