enormous proportion

collocation in English

meaningsofenormousandproportion

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enormous
adjective
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/ɪˈnɔː.məs/us
/əˈnɔːr.məs/
extremely ...
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noun
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/prəˈpɔː.ʃən/us
/prəˈpɔːr.ʃən/
the number or amount of a group or part of something when compared to ...
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Warships take anenormousproportionas compared with merchant ships.
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Another question which is seriously disturbing the country is theenormousproportionof married men who have enlisted.
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I need not emphasise what anenormousproportionof the population go away from home or even abroad for their holidays.
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That means that in order to train 6,501 persons you have engaged 6,201 persons, which seems to be anenormousproportion.
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Further, all this time they have devoted anenormousproportionof their national resources to building up their military capability.
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Here we have anenormousproportionof our population who cannot get enough food.
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But nothing very much has come of it, when one considers theenormousproportionof money handled by bookmakers.
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That subject would create a debate ofenormousproportionand heat.
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The population of the world has increased by 500 million in the last decade, anenormousproportionof them being illiterate.
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Many council tenants in modern accommodation pay anenormousproportionof their rent for bad central heating.
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One has anenormousproportionof offal in the form of internal fat and bone, and the other has a relatively small amount.
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That is anenormousproportionof a work force of 22 million.
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It is not sufficiently remembered what anenormousproportionof detainees has already been released.
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We are the only nation that has ever had such anenormousproportionof officers to control 800 or 900 men in action.
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So anenormousproportionof the overspending is due to those two items, which alone amount to £1,650,000.
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Even with such a broad definition, that is anenormousproportionof the prison population with psychiatric disorders.
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If wheat were adopted as a standard the amount of wheat in circulation would be anenormousproportionof the total amount of wheat.
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That is anenormousproportionof our resources in relation to all the other costs we have to meet as a nation.
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It will repay us if we consider the figures showing theenormousproportionof borrowed money or loan operations as compared with taxation.
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I suggest that such anenormousproportionof the income of individuals cannot be taken away without causing inflation.
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