disproportionate amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdisproportionateandamount
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disproportionate
adjective
uk/ˌdɪs.prəˈpɔː.ʃən.ət/us/ˌdɪs.prəˈpɔːr.ʃən.ət/
too large or too small in comparison to something else, or not deserving its importance ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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In such situations, should physicians engage in defensive violations to ensure that their patients do not bear adisproportionateamountof the burden?
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Adisproportionateamountof these costs are a consequence of unsuccessful asthma control (1).
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Adisproportionateamountof time was, therefore, spent in the vicinity of their nest at this time of the year.
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Certainly in the first and third cases, one constituent body within the courts seems to have exercised a trulydisproportionateamountof power.
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In many developing countries, a small ethnic community owns adisproportionateamountof private enterprise in key sectors.
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Apparently, the more conspecific worms share the same host, the more difficult it gets for a given worm to monopolize adisproportionateamountof host resources.
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Definitions of ' frequent attendance ' vary greatly but one remarkably consistent finding across different settings is that such patients account for adisproportionateamountof the primary care workload.
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In the oil spill and earthquake domains, adisproportionateamountof pro-change testimony is offered when a particular event is mentioned by witnesses, suggesting event-related mobilization.
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Open competitions, being few and far between, have tended to attract enormous numbers of entries, making judging difficult and involving adisproportionateamountof time and effort for all concerned.
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Control over key productive assets can give a landowner a vastlydisproportionateamountof power over both tenants and others to whom she is more indirectly connected economically.
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I regret that detailed figures on a county and acreage basis are not obtainable without adisproportionateamountof work.
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It would require adisproportionateamountof time and labour to produce a realistic average length in words.
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Adisproportionateamountof work would be involved in providing the figures of new borrowings relating to 28 authorities over 12 years.
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Even to provide an incomplete list would involve a whollydisproportionateamountof time and effort.
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Despite that, we continue to attract adisproportionateamountof overseas investment.
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I regret that the information is not readily available and could be answered only at the cost of adisproportionateamountof time and effort.
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It takes adisproportionateamountfrom those on average and lower incomes, and everybody knows it.
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This information is not available and could not be obtained without adisproportionateamountof labour.
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