I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of proportion (= the ability to judge how important or unimportant something is )
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It’s important to keep a sense of proportion.
assume...proportions
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The problem is beginning to assume massive proportions .
epidemic proportions
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Violent crime is reaching epidemic proportions in some cities.
high proportion/percentage etc (of sth) (= a very large part of a number )
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A high proportion of women with children under five work full-time.
in inverse proportion to
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Clearly, the amount of money people save increases in inverse proportion to the amount they spend.
lose all sense of time/direction/proportion etc
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When he was writing, he lost all sense of time.
of epic proportions
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He had produced a meal of epic proportions .
sizeable proportion/portion/minority (of sth)
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Part-time students make up a sizeable proportion of the college population.
smaller proportion
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A much smaller proportion of women are employed in senior positions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
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At this juncture it should be noted that a considerable proportion of international lending does take this latter form.
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A considerable proportion of parenting is in the mundane details that women are raised to manage.
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Furthermore diarrhoea or weight loss were absent in a considerable proportion of infected patients.
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That could pose a problem of considerable proportions , especially in three-dimensional space.
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Rural areas supplied not only agricultural products but also a considerable proportion of manufacturing output.
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Nevertheless for the foreseeable future a considerable proportion of elderly people will require care at specific periods of their lives.
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The resulting slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle.
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Thus a considerable proportion both of paintings and drawings has recently been widely seen.
direct
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Could it be that Europeanism is in direct proportion to dissatisfaction with one's own political institutions?
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And as the country got wilder, the population grew thinner and loveliness increased in direct proportion to danger.
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The value of higher education, on this view, is in direct proportion to the critical capacities of its graduates.
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This indicates that ferritin is released into the serum normally in direct proportion to the amount stored in tissues.
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Latin temperaments rose in exasperation in direct proportion to their owners' frustration.
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As one grows the other grows in direct proportion .
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A spinning cylinder generates lift in direct proportion to the acceleration it imparts on the air streaming by.
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Faith's value, some even suggest, grows in direct proportion to its lack of a rational basis.
epic
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The prints in the accompanying exhibition were also of epic proportion - some five feet by four and even larger.
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For a team that ranks in the bottom third in caring for the ball, this was a triumph of epic proportions .
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Their forced retreat, with a rope too short to reach the ground, took on epic proportions .
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Here we have a co-production of mini-series ambitions, but without the necessary budget or pomposity to puff out to epic proportions .
epidemic
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Shoplifting has reached epidemic proportions and this gave rise to a lively discussion.
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The assertion that this has reached epidemic proportions can not be challenged.
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By A.D. 54-5, militant activity had again assumed epidemic proportions .
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Worldwide sin is at epidemic proportions .
great
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By far the greatest proportion of those joining the new congregations were Presbyterians and they were mostly from rural areas.
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Such survivors, after all, form by far the greatest proportion of patients with coronary disease.
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We will continue to extend City Challenge and allocate a greater proportion of resources by competitive bidding.
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The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease, which in this study had a worse prognosis.
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In other words, does the expansion of highly distinctive words result in a greater proportion of useful information?
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It will become increasingly important for farmers to obtain a greater proportion of their income from the market.
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For example, I share a greater proportion of my genes with my sister than I do with my cousin.
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The more the company finances by means of debt, the greater the proportion of future profits which are committed to interest payments.
high
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Administrative changes during the late nineteenth century should have resulted in a higher proportion of cases being reported.
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On the other hand, Mycoplasma infection was found in an abnormally high proportion of people with the syndrome.
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Only Torbay, with its high proportion of elderly and retired persons in owner-occupied accommodation, is more poorly provided.
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Scores approaching 200 therefore represent a high proportion of very non-standard realizations.
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This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents.
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In the first place, there is a higher proportion of owner occupation and private furnished renting.
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Britain has one of the highest proportions of one parent families.
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Certain journals contain abnormally or unexpectedly high proportions of classic references, and hence need longer storage.
increasing
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The financial constraints on wives are also not so serious, as an increasing proportion of married women are in full-time work.
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They merely pave the way for an increasing proportion of those emissions to come from the burning of imported coal.
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An increasing proportion of the early potato crop is grown under polythene sheeting.
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In addition there has been an increasing proportion of companies concerned with distribution, and with larger retail unit operations.
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As a result, families represent an increasing proportion of households with the lowest standards of living.
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In effect, landlords have clawed back for themselves an increasing proportion of rate relief on premises within enterprise zones.
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An increasing proportion of these services will be provided by local communities on a fee-paying basis.
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An increasing proportion of the latter occupations seek to live beyond the cities and to commute back to them.
inverse
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The scope of personal responsibility expands and contracts in inverse proportion to the extent of the protected interests.
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When this is not the case, benefit allocations are in inverse proportion to A's and B's.
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The stridency of their assertions tended to grow in inverse proportion to the extent of their knowledge on costs.
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The proliferation of these diminutive shows will soon be in inverse proportion to the theatres still open to receive them.
large
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The lives of a large proportion of the world's population are nasty, brutish and short.
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Her head was rather large in proportion to the rest of the thin figure.
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A large proportion of the new interest came from young people.
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Moreover, a small number of diseases command a large proportion of the limited resources.
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If one looks to sources other than the canonical scriptures, Thomas's role assumes larger proportions .
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Rotterdam handles by far the largest proportion of that.
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When drawing children, your will find that the head takes up a much larger proportion of the height.
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The second largest proportion comprise married couples with no children, then married couples with independent children.
low
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At lower levels the proportion of wealth belonging to each group was smaller in Coventry.
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The lowest proportion revealed to have the virus in their blood was 44%, the highest 72%.
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Manufacturing industry has declined, whilst service industries, which employ a lower proportion of manual workers, have expanded.
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A lower proportion of their clients receive one of the three main services for which they were referred.
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Salary - a low proportion identified this as a source of dissatisfaction.
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No women voted at all, which mainly accounts for the low proportion .
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The low proportion with an acquittal outcome probably reflects that the vast majority of these cases involve a guilty plea.
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London, Edinburgh and Birmingham have produced the lowest proportions of such under-utilised research.
manageable
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Now you've narrowed the choice down to more manageable proportions , it's time for the specialist retailer and test fitting.
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For its first 900 years Cairo was a city of manageable proportions .
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Again the problem is to winnow these down to manageable proportions .
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In charting development within the group two samples of boys have been used to reduce the task to manageable proportions .
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It is not simply that Spiegelman reduces unimaginable statistics and intolerable realities to concrete and manageable proportions .
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The price of keeping the bonus down to manageable proportions is a somewhat less efficient outcome.
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It was adjacent to Saint Cloud, but it was of manageable proportions and it had great romantic charm.
relative
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The attention paid to physical distribution is related to the relative proportion of distribution costs in total costs.
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The number of working-class children also rose, but the relative proportions remained approximately the same.
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We have some understanding of the relative proportions of the different ecological types.
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One is wet sieved as above, and both the mud and sand fractions dried and weighed to establish their relative proportions .
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They illustrate the principle of allometry; that an animal's relative proportions may change as it increases in size.
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Hence there is less routine manual work to do and the relative proportion of white-collar workers within factories rises.
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A mollusc past the initial stages of growth increases in size without significantly changing the orientation and relative proportions of its organs.
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Their compositions remain constant but the relative proportions of each change.
significant
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They also do receive a significant proportion of their income from the sale of goods and services rather than from taxes.
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Political cultures to refer to those in which there are significant proportions of both the simpler and more complex patterns of orientations.
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It follows that a significant proportion of the annual grass crop must be preserved for winter feeding.
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By failing to provide stories for a significant proportion of the population, are they not digging themselves a grave?
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Nevertheless, it would seem that this was not considered to be a significant proportion .
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Conversely, a significant proportion of the companies operating in this country are off-shoots of enterprises whose head offices are situated abroad.
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A significant proportion of the dolphin's brain is thought to be used in processing the information produced by the echolocation system.
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Even on small contracts, plant costs may account for a significant proportion of total costs.
similar
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These three factors each accounted for similar proportions of combined effect on average pay of around 15 percent.
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Belfast city council reduced rents in Smithfield market by a similar proportion .
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Strikers in the Staffordshire Senior League are currently facing a weighty problem of similar proportions .
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At that, time a similar proportion of Members of Parliament were female.
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Levels of digestion on the teeth from these two samples are similar , but proportions of teeth affected differ slightly.
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Assuming similar proportions even a study of 5000 patients would not have shown a significant difference between the two groups.
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Buckinghamshire would be expected to contribute a similar proportion to the relevant costs of the scheme.
sizeable
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A sizeable proportion of the episcopal appointments recorded by Gregory are quite clearly uncanonical.
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A sizeable proportion of these cases were suspected arson and were related to increased business failure because of high interest rates.
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A sizeable proportion of the population did not even listen to the speech.
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The Cabinet closed ranks behind him and a sizeable proportion of his back-benchers followed suit.
small
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This represents only a small proportion of the structure.
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Lone parents have much smaller proportions of household heads in the labour market than two parent families.
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Even so, as Table 4.1 shows, wholesale funding remains a comparatively small proportion of total liabilities.
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A very small proportion of its whole was active.
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Higher house prices mean lower rental yields because rent becomes a smaller proportion of the purchase price.
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Only a small proportion of those entitled are doing so.
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Although many patients are prescribed psychotropic medication, only a small proportion of these will go on to take an overdose.
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Women hold a very small proportion of other public offices.
substantial
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For example, a substantial proportion of the road tax levied on vehicle owners goes towards paying for road maintenance and improvements.
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The Liberal Democrats and ourselves represent a substantial proportion of public opinion throughout the United Kingdom.
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Relatively few students reach secondary school, with a substantial proportion of these being in the Khartoum and Northern regions.
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The substantial proportion of Cabernet makes for a slightly more elegant wine, with a delicious combination of spice and blackcurrant fruit.
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A substantial proportion of time and effort was devoted to the study of a sample of six Major Project schools.
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A substantial proportion of the population, the refugees, had been dependent on international help since 1949.
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This was because a substantial proportion were very heavily dependent upon the state for their income.
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Unfortunately, a substantial proportion of modern mains transformers have either twin primary windings, or a tapped winding.
■ VERB
contain
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A source of silver much exploited in early times was lead sulphide, most notably galena, containing varying proportions of silver.
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Sandstone, a sedimentary rock and quartzite, a metamorphic rock, both contain a high proportion of quartz.
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Polyphosphates are sometimes referred to as builders and products containing high proportions as built detergents.
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For men the older age groups also contain the highest proportions of ex-regular smokers.
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The women's daily routines contain a far higher proportion of domestic interruptions than do those of the men.
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As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals.
form
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This occurs for non-woody monocotyledons of low biomass, where leaves form a constant high proportion of the total biomass.
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Their short-term assets form a much smaller proportion of the total.
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In contrast, rental payments are likely to form a more constant proportion of current pay over the life cycle.
grow
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Their confidence grew into overwhelming proportions and in the opinion of many observers they swiftly became Manchester's tedious twosome.
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Meanwhile, the system itself had grown to Brobdingnagian proportions .
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On their wisdom the industry grew to undreamed of proportions .
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Karelin's streak and his story had grown to legendary proportions .
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The heap of lumber on my neighbour's veg patch grew to monstrous proportions .
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Everyone is an amateur in this world, except the growing proportion of electronic criminals.
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Representations of him grew more monstrous in proportion to the scale of the struggles he provoked.
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When an extended family is living together at close quarters, even minor irritations can grow out of all proportion .
include
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This group has a high doctor-patient contact rate but also includes a proportion of patients with unstable or brittle asthma.
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These early parties are nearly always found at Thorney Island and include a high proportion of adults in summer plumage.
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In particular it provided flexibility by including a significant proportion of short term placements.
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Membership of the Codex committees includes a high proportion of commercial interests, with little balancing representation from public interest groups.
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Thus the sample included a high proportion of people at the top end of the jobs hierarchy.
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The samples tested in this series may not include a high proportion of health care staff involved in invasive procedures.
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Thus a social security system that includes a significant proportion of means-testing is bound to be age discriminatory in its effects.
increase
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On the harder ADs and Difficiles, and increasing proportion of pitching will be necessary.
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Longer-range follow-ups at 3-8 years reflected increasing proportions of clients becoming total abstainers, and a consistent 10-outcomes.
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Aim to increase the proportion of carbohydrates in your diet rather than the sheer volume.
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The ability to process information increases in proportion to the number of layers in the network.
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As death rates have declined the proportion of elderly classed as married has increased while the proportion widowed has decreased.
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And as the country got wilder, the population grew thinner and loveliness increased in direct proportion to danger.
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But rewards increase out of proportion to price with the wines from named sites.
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For larger values of T -T u the layer thicknesses will increase in proportion .
pay
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Businesses pay a proportion of the rates, heating, lighting and costs.
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If by fair you mean that everyone pays the same proportion of his income in taxes, the flat tax comes closer.
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Most occupational schemes pay a proportion of your earnings when you retire and are called final earnings schemes.
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These students may attend one or more classes at the University, paying an appropriate proportion of the full annual fee.
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Income tax is a progressive tax because higher earners pay a higher proportion of their income in this tax than lower earners.
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Others will have to pay a proportion of the tax, and in London and Aberdeen that proportion could well be high.
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They also paid a substantial proportion of the increasingly heavy taxation the Elizabethan and Stuart campaigns on the Continent demanded.
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You would be paid a proportion of the amount stated in the Benefit Table.
spend
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The poorest Third World countries spend the largest proportions of their incomes on weapons.
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You have to spend some proportion of the fee there on the rock.
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These would spend a larger proportion of their incomes and so net savings would be reduced.
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Poorer households are known to spend a larger proportion of their income on essentials such as food and fuel for heating.
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In cities, poor families spend a much larger proportion on energy-often as much as 12-15 percent of their income.
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What do you spend the greatest proportion on?
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Teacher-pupil interaction Teachers spent a very high proportion of their time in class interacting with pupils.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blow sth (up) out of (all) proportion
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This case has been blown totally out of proportion because of the media attention.
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The issue was blown far out of proportion.
mythic proportions
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a feat of mythic proportions
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By conflating childhood with mythic time - and does not the world possess mythic proportions when we are small?
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This is a feat of mythic proportions, comparable to extracting gold from sea water-or helium-3 from the lunar regolith.
of biblical proportions
on a heroic scale/of heroic proportions
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A high proportion of the products tested were found to contain harmful chemicals.
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a program to increase the proportion of women and black people in the police service
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A significant proportion of the elderly are dependent on the basic state pension.
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Architects must learn about scale and proportion .
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Seventy-five percent of California's immigrants are foreign-born, and that proportion is likely to increase.
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The new jobs would largely be unskilled and a high proportion would be in inner city areas.
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The new law is intended to reduce the proportion of road accidents caused by drunk drivers.
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We get a small proportion of our funding from the government.
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What proportion of your income do you spend on food?
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What is the proportion of men to women in your office?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Already the hyperbole was out of all proportion compared to the evidence.
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It will automatically calculate, for example, what proportion of your income goes on things like the car and household items.
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Ratios between two proportions are not, however, regularly used in analysing contingency tables.
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Severing the umbilical cord between landlords and peasants vastly increased the proportion of the population for which the centre was directly responsible.
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The most desirable proportion of height to length being 9 to 10.
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What proportion have neither one, nor both parents as members of the church?
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Yves Rocher Dynamic Corp Bio-Vegetal range includes gel, tonics and creams all with a high proportion of sea algae.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
perfectly
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She had perfectly proportioned features and perfectly proportioned hands and feet and small even teeth that flashed as she smiled.
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He was a tiny man, my size standing on a log, perfectly proportioned , except for one thing.
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They were so world-weary, scornful of everything that wasn't perfectly proportioned or that they hadn't thought of first.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mythic proportions
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a feat of mythic proportions
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By conflating childhood with mythic time - and does not the world possess mythic proportions when we are small?
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This is a feat of mythic proportions, comparable to extracting gold from sea water-or helium-3 from the lunar regolith.
of biblical proportions
on a heroic scale/of heroic proportions
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All storing is performed in the base port once a week with most meats being proportioned.
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Both are moved along at the same speed and in the same direction by the proportioning pump.
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It provides that such damages can be awarded as are proportioned to the injury resulting from the death to the dependants respectively.
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So long as he was solvent in law, he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts.