equal proportion

collocation in English

meaningsofequalandproportion

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equal
adjective
uk
/ˈiː.kwəl/us
/ˈiː.kwəl/
the same in amount, number, ...
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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 ofequalandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Only a small butequalproportion(four per cent) of men and women were single.
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The average family size was six members comprising anequalproportionof male and female members.
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But he uses a third chord inequalproportion: the diminished seventh.
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Later copper coin and silver were employed inequalproportion.
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The quintiles were defined to ensure that each residual area would contain a roughlyequalproportionof the population.
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Modulation along the third, achromatic, axis changes excitation in all three cone types inequalproportion.
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In order to escape the charge that rewarding supererogation would violate equality, the law would have to reward all forms of supererogation inequalproportionto their worth.
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Along the achromatic axis the excitation of all three types of cones varies inequalproportion.
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I think it is right that both sides should be represented practically inequalproportion.
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We should all make sacrifices inequalproportionin order to feed the starving people.
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In the past there has been a proportion of five to five—anequalproportion.
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It is not that movements in labour and capital reduce inequalities inequalproportion.
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I was not trying to show that each member was spending anequalproportionacross the front.
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That is welcome to women because women can claim to possess anequalproportionof brain to men.
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In this country to-day the incidence of unemployment does not fall inequalproportionon all the towns.
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I have never found that the possession of a certain amount of money necessarily made for anequalproportionof political sense—quite often the other way.
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I should like there to be upper limits on spending so that fairness exists and so that the voice of parties to the arguments can be heard inequalproportion.
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In addition, we carry a share of international expenditure on defence and aid which is not borne in anything likeequalproportionby other advanced industrial countries.
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They are committed to ensuring that there is anequalproportionof men and women and a pro rata number of people from ethnic minority backgrounds.
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