equal portion

collocation in English

meaningsofequalandportion

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equal
adjective
uk
/ˈiː.kwəl/us
/ˈiː.kwəl/
the same in amount, number, ...
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portion
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɔː.ʃən/us
/ˈpɔːr.ʃən/
a part or share of ...
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(Definition ofequalandportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I have no doubt that when the historians come to write about our actions, they will have anequalportionof blame and praise to give.
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The partners in each office share incomes equally and all the partners own anequalportionof the total firm.
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They have a high fat content, with almost anequalportionof saturated fat to protein.
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I shall compile it with anequalportionof what everyone should know.
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The prominences are beset with small tubercles, and are marked off into three more or less equal portions by two shallow furrows.
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In practice, therefore, in most cases it is simplest to divide the data into equal portions.
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The art space and infoshop are run on a donations-only basis, and members pay anequalportionof the costs involved in the property's upkeep each month.
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Suppose that you control the supply of some drug, and two people approach you and request equal portions of it.
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During the first 10 days of each experiment, the diets contained 110% of the maintenance energy requirement and were given in equal portions twice a day.
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Samples of rain and litter percolate were mixed volume-weighted, while equal portions were used for the soil solution samples as no reliable information about the below-ground water fluxes was available.
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The transcribers were allocated equal portions of the corpus, with at least one section of overlap in each text category to be prosodically marked by both of them.
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However, this system of relatively equal portions of the purchase price for every sibling can only have been ' egalitarian ' if the purchase price represented the 'real ' market price.
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More specifically, a half-inferior ovary has nearly equal portions of ovary above and below the insertion point.
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At this point the espagnole is prepared, and when it is finished the brown stock is added in equal portions to the espagnole.
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The bo is held in three equal portions, with the left hand at the hip and the bo pointing at the opponent's throat.
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It divides the academic year into three equal portions of 1011 weeks each.
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They are mixed in more or less equal portions, though some prefer to include more scallions than ginger and garlic.
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In the "uniform" case, the time values are chosen in equal portions, i.e. 0, 1, 2 and 3.
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The estate is divided into as many equal portions as there are surviving children and deceased children who leave descendants.
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Its fruit is schizocarpal, and splits into four equal portions upon reaching maturity.
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