noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sizeable proportion/portion/minority (of sth)
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Part-time students make up a sizeable proportion of the college population.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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Waterlilies and other deep-water aquatics grow in the deeper central portion of the pool.
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The central portion of the house was two stories high, flanked by two cloistered arcades.
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The disk is often damaged with the central portion of the disk missing.
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Then we lived in all this central portion .
considerable
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However, there are 26,000 empty council houses, a considerable portion of which could be brought back into use.
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Beginning in fourth grade, students are expected to spend a considerable portion of the academic day working independently.
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Stone and brick buildings were initiated of which considerable portions exist.
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A considerable portion of the temple still stands and, even in its ruined condition, presents a most impressive sight.
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A considerable portion of his time is devoted to promoting the study of the foreign language, literature, or culture.
generous
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Lily helped herself to the two smallest slices and a generous portion of the crispy brown bubble and squeak.
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The chicken, a generous quarter portion , is glazed lightly with an orange sauce.
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If you have liver or a generous portion of a soya product at least once a week this will help.
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When available, parts from male fryers provide more generous portions than parts from female fryers.
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The low prices and generous portions account for the ubiquitous lines, which almost always extend out the door.
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It boasts an overly generous portion of violence.
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Spoon a generous portion of salsa on the other side of the plate and place grilled eggplant on top of salsa.
good
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A good portion of yesterday's volumes reflected activity by market makers, getting their trading books just as flat as possible.
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Any combat soldier who lived through a good portion of his tour experienced one or more proper fire-fights.
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Everyone used to fight to get to the front of the queue, as that way you usually got better portions .
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There was nothing so fine as a good meaty portion of best blood sausage.
large
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A large portion of the State's scarce resources was absorbed in upholding the serf-owners' authority and subsidizing their income.
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This covers a large portion of flat land and could take the largest planes available, even by today's standards.
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Man may well have spent large portions of the last several million years living in small kin groups.
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Had her internal regulator failed her and allowed in a larger portion than she could handle?
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Do you serve yourself large portions ?
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For example, Levi Strauss, makers of jeans for the whole world, has networked a large portion of its being.
low
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Details of decorative paintwork were visible on his left side although only the lower portion of the work could be seen clearly.
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Defects of body in ge may be more likely with a stroke centered in the lower portions of the parietal lobe.
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Another important result was that the lower portion of the upper layer was not producing.
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The tailgate opens in two sections: The upper portion is glass and hinges up, the lower portion folds down.
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It has a low fibre content and a low portion weight, so its fibre contribution to the average diet is negligible.
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You refer to a map and monitor your health and energy by viewing two bars on the lower portion of the screen.
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Fifty to 60 crypts from each case were divided into upper and lower portions .
major
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More than 95% of the bile acids are then reabsorbed, the major portion by active uptake in the distal ileum.
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In this chapter we will take up the first two topics, which constitute a major portion of semantics.
significant
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Certain villages were strongholds of cattle thieves and their residents derived a significant portion of their incomes from the cattle trade.
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That represented a significant portion of the $ 11. 95 million net worth he reported at the time.
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Bones are counted as complete if they include significant portions of all three segments.
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That could lead to losses of a significant portion of the 100, 000 tons of city-generated waste handled by county landfills.
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Improving Computational Models A significant portion of neural network research centers on the improvement of computational models.
small
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A small portion of the scene showing the couple with the cart flaked away and broke on the floor.
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A higher P / E ratio means that the shareholders would get a smaller portion .
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But the relatively small civil service portion could sail through, if Republicans sign on to them.
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Tragedy, disaster; they moulded them into small , digestible portions .
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If you include dairy foods, use low-fat versions, and only small portions .
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They normally use a small portion of the stroke intuitively combined with other moves and manoeuvres.
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They represent a small portion of the total plasma lipids and are transported in the plasma by albumin.
substantial
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After Edward II's overthrow in 1326 he was restored and he received back a substantial portion of his estates.
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What the networks are offering, Black said, is a substantial portion of their news programming.
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The substantial portion of £18,000 doubtless reflected interalia the disparity of age: Mary Banks was thirty, John Savile twenty-two.
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Net and who is said to own a substantial portion of the company, will become chairman.
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A finance lease lasts for a substantial portion of the life of an asset.
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They are also privatizing substantial portions of their socialized economies.
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In a partnership a trader was required to keep a substantial portion of his wealth in the firm.
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Parents also pay substantial portions of state and local taxes that support public schools and universities.
tiny
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It has nothing to do with their bodies but simply means that they represent only a tiny portion of the population.
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Yet these represent a relatively tiny portion of the uses for solar power.
upper
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Through its glass upper portion he could see the pale figure lying still in the bed.
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The tailgate opens in two sections: The upper portion is glass and hinges up, the lower portion folds down.
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Fifty to 60 crypts from each case were divided into upper and lower portions .
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These are part of the fascination of the reef; the sunlit upper portions are rich in life.
■ VERB
divide
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Each micro-instruction is divided into two portions , the control bits and the sequencing bits.
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A Dig out the clumps of roots and divide them into smaller portions to replant or pot-up.
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They are divided into five portions .
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Again, this starts from a point of origin and is divided into equal portions .
pay
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Most of the breakers kept a portion for themselves, knowing that the unlucky punter would eventually pay that portion once again.
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Price Pfister is paying the largest portion of the settlement because it has the largest market share.
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The problem is that the patient often has to pay a portion of the cost for the community based services.
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For elderly who live off less than $ 15,000, the government would pay a portion of the drug coverage fees.
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That left her paying her full premium to Partners without her employer paying any portion of it.
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By contrast, traditional indemnity health insurance pays a large portion of the bill for whatever medical care patients seek.
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Parents also pay substantial portions of state and local taxes that support public schools and universities.
receive
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After Edward II's overthrow in 1326 he was restored and he received back a substantial portion of his estates.
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What is more several of the children seem to have inherited her command and confidence, with Eva receiving a double portion .
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For example, they may receive the same diet portion of the experiment but not the exercise portion.
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They would receive a portion of their Social Security benefit depending on how long they were in the system.
represent
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That represented a significant portion of the $ 11. 95 million net worth he reported at the time.
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It has nothing to do with their bodies but simply means that they represent only a tiny portion of the population.
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Yet these represent a relatively tiny portion of the uses for solar power.
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As a result each share represents a smaller portion of the company, and the share price falls.
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They represent a small portion of the total plasma lipids and are transported in the plasma by albumin.
serve
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Do you serve yourself large portions ?
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Papa Cristos Taverna serves huge portions at low prices.
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Jenkins, then 30, already had served portions of two sentences for burglary.
spend
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Who spends his portion will be broke.
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Beginning in fourth grade, students are expected to spend a considerable portion of the academic day working independently.
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Man may well have spent large portions of the last several million years living in small kin groups.
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Members of the Monodactylidae family are marine fish that spend a portion of their lives in fresh or brackish water.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A major portion of the budget is spent on defence.
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Fuel is carried in the lower portion of the rocket.
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Most of the profit goes to the retailer; some goes to the middleman, and the remaining portion goes to the producer.
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My mother always gave the boys bigger portions than she gave me.
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Surgeons have had to remove portions of his stomach and intestine.
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The money should be shared out in equal portions between all members of the family.
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The research suggests we only use a small portion of our brains at any one time.
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Two portions of French fries please.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each such portion may be replaced by another portion which is deemed to be equal to it according to the list.
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In a flood of tears, some my own, she presented me with four frozen chicken portions.
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In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
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It boasts an overly generous portion of violence.
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Of course, a basic corollary of the theory is that deep drilling should uncover a portion of these massive methane resources.
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She is concerned about the size of the portions of food I eat.
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The Central Area pulled all these parts together, as it were, and made them interdependent portions of the whole.
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Thus housekeeping allowances might bear little relation to the portion of the husband's net income devoted to collective expenditure.