disproportionate share

collocation in English

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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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share
noun
uk
/ʃeər/us
/ʃer/
a part of something that has been divided between ...
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(Definition ofdisproportionateandsharefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, to accomplish this goal the central government had to assume adisproportionateshareof the costs.
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In contrast, in the two savannah zones, adult males undertook adisproportionateshareof activities to produce garden crops that were primarily for marketing.
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Although this ratio decreased to about one in four in 1995, it still represented adisproportionateshareof refugees from the region.
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These kinds of reform strategies seem especially feasible in cases where poor, sparsely-populated rural areas command adisproportionateshareof national legislative seats.
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That small percentage of very large firms, however, controls adisproportionateshareof the overall construction billings.
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Horizontal and diagonal households, which because of their size accounted for adisproportionateshareof the population, changed least frequently.
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Because older women, and particularly non-married older women, tend to be more dependent on children, they could constitute adisproportionateshareof those most in need.
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From the genetic point of view of each offspring, however, the self is more important than siblings, and each particular offspring seeks to acquire adisproportionateshareof parental resources.
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That enabled us to get adisproportionateshareof new industry.
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In the light of the results, how can he justify housing taking adisproportionateshareof the cuts?
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It is not uncommon for a business to depend on one department for adisproportionateshareof its profits.
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These restrictions are necessary to ensure that those who happen to have friends overseas are not getting adisproportionateshareof food in short supply.
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A few expensive cases take up adisproportionateshareof the available resources and it is vital that they are particularly closely controlled.
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We should not expect to take adisproportionateshareof military responsibilities.
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We must ensure that local government does not take adisproportionateshareof public expenditure at the expense of other public services.
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Why have we lost adisproportionatesharecompared with similar countries?
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What this means is that our continent is appropriating adisproportionateshareof the world’s natural resources, whether terrestrial or marine.
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Householders who pay rates have to bear adisproportionateshareof the burden of paying for local government services.
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