How to use in-sentence of “proportion”:
+ These members are apportioned to the Swiss cantons in proportion to their population.
+ Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion to the number of their shares.
+ Also, the proportion of the light reflected is much less under water.
+ With these very small objects, the surface area is great in proportion to its weight.
+ The proportion of young sparrowhawks which survive to one year old is 34%.
+ This is because relatives share genes in proportion to their relationship.
+ In statistics, a proportion is a number which measures the extent to which a specific characteristic is in a sample or a population.
Example sentences of “proportion”:
+ Its members are the entire "Bundestag" and an equal number of state delegates selected especially for this purpose in proportion to election results for the state parliaments.
+ It had a brain the size of a dog's, but in proportion to its body, the brain was very small.
+ Its members are the entire “Bundestag” and an equal number of state delegates selected especially for this purpose in proportion to election results for the state parliaments.
+ It had a brain the size of a dog’s, but in proportion to its body, the brain was very small.
+ For example, while the proportion of wives working year-round in married couple households with children has increased from 17% in 1967 to 39% in 1996, the proportion of such households among the general population has decreased.
+ I admit that the recent debacle regarding flood flag was blown out of proportion – and that I am partly to blame – and I think now that the guidelines around this tool have been made clearer such an incident won’t happen again.
+ On April 24, 1915, Armenian intellectuals were arrested by Ottoman authorities and, with the Tehcir Law, eventually a large proportion of Armenians living in Anatolia died in what has become known as the Armenian Genocide.
+ Although there are a few benthic species, most are gelatinous zooplankton and form a considerable proportion of the entire planktonic biomass worldwide.
+ The number of volunteers from the remote ports of Montenegro appears very high in proportion to the total number of enrolled in the Italian Army.
+ With 8,474 households, it has an average of 3.3 residents per household, with a proportion of 55.32% of the women responsible for the household, and the value of the nominal monthly family income is 1,892.10.
+ While doing experiments for the textbook, he found that inorganic compounds are made of different Chemical elementelements in proportion by weight.
+ Naval Research Laboratory said that, “although the gas forms only a small proportion of air – around 0.04 per cent – ocean water contains about 140 times that concentration”.
+ There is also a significant proportion of Indian and Malay ancestry.
+ The beams of light and flying figures create an effect “dramatic out of all proportion to the simplicity of the means employed.” The ballet was popular in South America when it was performed there in 1941 by an American company assembled by Lincoln Kirstein.
+ The highest proportion of confirmed sundown towns are in the state of Illinois.
+ Since then, several women have attained the Vice Presidency, and the female proportion after the Cold War has been about 15%.
+ Two 21st centurytwenty-first century Prime Ministers, Tony Blair and David Cameron, were educated at public schools, as were a high proportion of those in previous centuries.
More in-sentence examples of “proportion”:
+ It is a much smaller proportion than a century ago, despite AIDS.
+ Altogether there are several thousand species of kleptoparasites, a large proportion of overall bee diversity.
+ A typical sphere packing problem is to find an arrangement in which the spheres fill as large a proportion of the space as possible.
+ Büsingen has a large proportion of residents who are retired people, many are Swiss, because they pay little or no tax on their pensions.
+ In 2005, refugees from Afghanistan numbered 300 and made a sizeable proportion of Turkey’s registered migrants.
+ But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
+ No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
+ The first two interpretations seem to point to groupthink, and in my view it can be partially attributed to the fact that a large proportion of active editors also happen to be administrators.
+ It has the highest proportion of foreign students out of universities in Germany.
+ A marsh is different from a swamp, which has a greater proportion of open water surface, which is generally deeper than a marsh.
+ The department is still a very rural area, with a large proportion of the land of the department used for farming.
+ Hubble found the degree of Doppler effect from a galaxy increased in proportion to its distance from Earth.
+ Being near the border of the state, a small proportion of people speak Malayalam, Telugu and also Kannada.
+ The flag proportion is 1:2.
+ The proportion of space filled by the spheres is called the density of the arrangement.
+ This may have implications for those countries’ future, for there might be a decrease in the overall labor force and a negative change in the proportion of workers to retirees.
+ The most intense form of inbreeding is the self-fertilisation in an hermaphrodite, in which the proportion of heterozygotes is halved in each generation.
+ The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time.
+ A small proportion of Cepheid variables have been observed to pulsate in two modes at the same time, usually the fundamental and first overtone, occasionally the second overtone.
+ This proportion is known as viscosity.
+ The plants are similar to Valencia types, except that the stems are green to greenish brown, and the pods are rough, irregular, and have a smaller proportion of kernels.
+ To the north-west, however, the proportion of Muslims increases, with Muslims making up a dominant majority in the area around the western town of Poonch District.
+ This nocturnal bird of prey hunts mainly rodents, usually by dropping from a perch to seize its prey, which it swallows whole; in towns its diet includes a higher proportion of birds.
+ Most species are nocturnal, and the eyes and ears are noticeably larger than usual in proportion to the body.
+ Fitness is usually equal to the proportion of the individual’s genes in all the genes of the next generation.
+ Some examples include catastrophising where small problems are blown out of proportion and all-or-nothing thinking which involves thinking in extremes.
+ States are allowed to keep a proportion of the revenue to cover administration.
+ The proportion of the cultivated area in demesne tended to be greater in smaller manors.
+ The general opinion was that, at least for the next seven or eight years, Plug-ins are not going to become the standard in hybrid vehicles and that regular HEVs will have the biggest proportion on the market.
+ The members of the House of Representatives are elected by preferential voting from single-member areas spread among the states and territories roughly in proportion to population.
+ A Newtonian fluid is a fluid, where the ratio between shear stress changes linearly in proportion to the stress it is exposed to.
+ Amazonas has Venezuela’s highest proportion of indigenous peoples of Venezuela.
+ An increase in the proportion of the brain occupied by the cerebrum seems to have occurred in the Coelurosauria and “continued throughout the evolution of maniraptorans and early birds”.
+ It consists of an increase of the proportion of engineering students called “civilians” in opposition to the “officials” engineering students.
+ It is the most densely-populated city in California, and has the highest proportion of Latinos, immigrants, and undocumented immigrants in the county.
+ This changes the proportion of alleles in the population.
+ The proportion of astrocytes in the brain varies.
+ VAT based own resources are taxes on EU citizens as a proportion of Value added tax in each member country.
+ His buildings were the first in Britain to employ VitruviusVitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry.
+ A large proportion of indefinitely blocked proxies are no longer open proxies.
+ Exceptionally tall individuals must be homozygous for increased height mutations on a large proportion of these loci.
+ The most common cause of dwarfism is a defect in bone development called “achondroplasia”, in which the limbs are short in proportion to the body.
+ If the proportion of pensioners to working-age people rises, the contributions needed from working people will also rise proportionately.
+ Breasts are also essential, but in humans they are much larger in proportion to other mammals, and they do serve to attract males.
+ The country with the highest proportion of such Muslims is Kazakhstan at 74%.
+ Human populations have a high proportion of this mutation wherever milk is important to the diet.
+ It is a much smaller proportion than a century ago, despite AIDS.
+ Altogether there are several thousand species of kleptoparasites, a large proportion of overall bee diversity.