1. A large proportion of old people live alone.

2. His success bore no proportion to his abilities.

3. This door is narrow in proportion to its height.

4. The proportion of regular smokers increases with age.

5. His features are in proportion.

6. His success is in proportion to his effort.

7. Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface.

8. The proportion of women graduates has increased in recent years.

9. His short legs were not in proportion to his long body.

10. The proportion of the population still speaking the dialect is very small.

11. A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.

12. The tension grew in inverse proportion to the distance from their final destination.

13. A large proportion of the students were sick last week.

14. The company has an unusually high proportion of young people at the top.

15. A higher proportion of Americans go on to higher education than is the case in Britain.

16. The proportion of single parent families varies between different income groups.

17. A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die.

18. Children make up a large proportion of the world's population.

19. A proportion of the land is used for agriculture.

20. The head is out of proportion with the body.

21. Weight increases in direct proportion to mass.

22. A large proportion of their income comes from benefactions.

23. Try to keep a sense of proportion .

24. Her feet are small in proportion to her height.

25. As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes.

26. I like the general style of the building, but the chimneys are out of proportion—they're too big.

27. The most striking feature of those statistics is the high proportion of suicides.

28. It's ridiculous - we have a tiny disagreement and you blow the whole thing out of proportion!

29. Sometimes, the everlasting and vows of eternal love is not in proportion.

30. The long vista is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you----people, thoughts, emotions, pressures---are now fitted into the larger scene. Everything assumes a fairer proportion. And here is the beginning of wisdom.

1. A large proportion of old people live alone.

2. This door is narrow in proportion to its height.

3. The proportion of regular smokers increases with age.

4. His success is in proportion to his effort.

5. Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface.

6. The proportion of women graduates has increased in recent years.

7. A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.

8. As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes.

9. The tension grew in inverse proportion to the distance from their final destination.

10. A large proportion of the students were sick last week.

11. The most striking feature of those statistics is the high proportion of suicides.

12. It's ridiculous - we have a tiny disagreement and you blow the whole thing out of proportion!

13. A higher proportion of Americans go on to higher education than is the case in Britain.

14. The proportion of single parent families varies between different income groups.

15. A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die.

16. Children make up a large proportion of the world's population.

17. The unskilled section of the working class was diminishing as a proportion of the workforce.

31. A high proportion of our staff are female.

32. Always try to keep a sense of proportion .

33. Let's keep things in proportion.

34. The decision affects a significant proportion of the population.

35. Builders must learn about scale and proportion.

36. The two windows are in admirable proportion.

37. Everything just got blown out of proportion.

38. The room is wide in proportion to its height.

39. The problem has been exaggerated out of all proportion.

40. We've got to keep this in proportion.

41. The proportion of Americans living on welfare rose.

42. The issue was blown up out of all proportion.

43. Aren't you getting things rather out of proportion?

44. To my eye, the windows seem out of proportion.

45. The ransom must proportion the losses we have borne.

46. Women comprise a high proportion of part-time workers.

47. A large proportion of occupiers now own their homes.

48. A large proportion of the labour force is unskilled.

49. The test will give a proportion of false negatives.

50. Try to keep your view of the situation in proportion.

51. Women make up only a small proportion of the prison population.

52. A substantial proportion of the population speak a French-based patois.

53. They have undertaken to underwrite a large proportion of the supermarket's deficits.

54. The railways will carry a far higher proportion of freight traffic.

55. A proportion of the rent is met by the city council.

56. The media may be blowing it up out of proportion.

57. Although the majority of offenders are men,(/proportion.html) a small proportion - about 5 percent - are women.

58. The proportion of imports to exports is worrying the government.

59. The punishment was out of all proportion to the crime.

60. Payment will be in proportion to the work done, not to the time spent doing it.

61. What's the proportion of boys to girls in your class?

62. The chart shows government spending expressed as a proportion of national income.

63. They earn salaries out of all proportion to their ability.

64. The proportion of small cars on America's roads is increasing.

65. A fixed proportion of the fund is invested in British firms.

66. Clearly, the amount of money people save increases in inverse proportion to the amount they spend.

67. The fear of violent crime has now risen out of all proportion to the actual risk.

68. His expenditure on pleasure and luxuries is rather high in proportion to his income.

69. Her head is out of proportion to the size of her body.

70. You haven't drawn the figures in the foreground in proportion.

71. The figures of the horses in the foreground are out of proportion.

72. Try to draw the figures in the foreground in proportion.

73. A high proportion of crime is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.

74. Part - time students make up a sizeable proportion of the college population.

75. The proportion of sand to cement used was three to one.

76. Every parent is asked to contribute a proportion of the total cost.

77. Your pension will be based on a proportion of your final salary.

78. Spices had a high value in proportion to their weight.

79. Try to see the problem in proportion -- it could be far worse.

80. A high proportion of the new arrivals are skilled professionals.

81. The cost of insurance increases in proportion to the performance of the car.

82. The proportion of drinkers who abuse alcohol is actually quite small.

83. A high proportion of five-year-olds have teeth in poor condition.

84. The proportion of women to men at my college was about five to one.

85. My head was much nearer the camera than the rest of me so I'm all out of proportion.

86. A higher proportion of women now smoke than used to be the case.

87. These views are held by a significant proportion of the population.

88. The proportion of women in middle management has risen to 40%.

89. The media have blown the incident up out of all proportion.

90. The pressure in the cylinders would go up in proportion to the boiler pressure.

91. A large proportion of the children come to school by bus.

92. In drawing a person, it is difficult to get all the parts of the body in proportion.

93. Income from tourism accounts for a sizeable proportion of the area's total income.

94. '4 is to 8 as 6 is to 12' is a statement of proportion.

95. Women's bodies tend to have a higher proportion of fat to water.

96. The porch is out of proportion with the rest of the house.

97. A large proportion of the defence budget has been re-routed to education.

98. Reduce the drawing so that all the elements stay in proportion.

99. Let's keep a sense of proportion, and not rush to any hasty conclusions.

100. You can protest by all means, but keep a sense of proportion.

101. His head is out of proportion to the size of his body.

102. The proportion of students entering universities and colleges is revving up in recent years.

103. The whole affair has been blown up out of all proportion .

104. The human population in the region is expanding in inverse proportion to the wildlife.

105. What is the proportion of men to women in the population?

106. There was a proportion of research, which I reckoned at not more than 30 percent[], that was basic research.

107. We must keep a sense of proportion about all this.

108. The costs of the plan are out of proportion to the budget available.

109. They receive a proportion of their income from the sale of goods and services.

110. The problem of hooliganism should be kept in proportion. Only a small number of young people act in this way.

111. The whole issue has been blown out of all proportion.

112. His feet seem very small in proportion to his body.

113. The report shows that poor families spend a larger proportion of their income on food.

114. A greater proportion of people with first degrees are now going on to study for higher degrees.

115. The price of this article is out of all proportion to its value.

115. is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.

116. A much smaller proportion of women are employed in senior positions.

117. A man's vanity is actually in proportion to his ignorance.

118. When you're angry you don't always see things in proportion.

119. The rewards you get in this job are in direct proportion to the effort you put in.

120. Of course, when the papers get hold of a story, it's blown out of all proportion.

121. A high proportion of women with children under five work full-time.

122. The puppies' ears should be neat and in proportion to the head.

123. Children tend to have relatively larger heads than adults in proportion to the rest of their body.

124. The 32-year-old actress spent a large proportion of the week playing cat and mouse with the press.

125. A sense of proportion would not come amiss in all of this.

126. The proportion of women in the profession had risen to 17.3%.

127. The whole affair was blown up out of all proportion.

128. The level of crime in an area is almost always in direct proportion to the number of unemployed.

129. The room is very long in proportion to its width.

130. The unskilled section of the working class was diminishing as a proportion of the workforce.

131. Imports of foodstuffs accounted for a small proportion of total imports.

132. A person's wealth is often in inverse proportion to their happiness .

133. Hispanics make up a large proportion of the population of Miami.

134. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin 

135. The issue was blown far out of proportion.

136. Things get blown out of proportion.

137. This occurs for non-woody monocotyledons of low biomass, where leaves form a constant high proportion of the total biomass.

138. A growing proportion of politically active workers were no longer without a country, as the Communist Manifesto had proclaimed.

139. The mass is politically apathetic and impotent, and policy is imposed upon this large proportion of the population.

140. By far the greatest proportion of those joining the new congregations were Presbyterians and they were mostly from rural areas.

141. The proportion of children passing Ordinary and Advanced level examinations is positively correlated with social class.

142. They may be content to put up with a certain proportion of customer complaints for a given volume of business.

143. Yves Rocher Dynamic Corp Bio-Vegetal range includes gel, tonics and creams all with a high proportion of sea algae.

144. He thought the whole incident had been blown up out of proportion.

145. Allies received attention in proportion to their contribution to the Western alliance.

145. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.

146. Athletes are a mirror of society, even if sometimes their images are blown out of proportion.

147. According to the guidelines, only a small proportion of people with drug or alcohol problems have any contact with social services.

148. It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics.

149. In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.

150. The proportion of the population living and employed in rural areas declined sharply.

151. The value of shared facilities or labour must be apportioned strictly in proportion to relative benefits received.

152. Nevertheless for the foreseeable future a considerable proportion of elderly people will require care at specific periods of their lives.

153. An appreciable proportion of these cases was associated with high morbidity and mortality.

154. It was imperative too to keep cool and not allow things to get out of proportion.

155. Buying an airline seemed foolhardy and unnecessarily ostentatious: it affronted his sense of proportion.

156. Gender Unlike many local councils, Basildon has a roughly equal proportion of men and women in its workforce.

157. This case has been blown totally out of proportion because of the media attention.

158. The proportion of the population living in the countryside had been declining throughout the century.

159. These fish have developed remarkably tough gullets due to the high proportion of fresh water crustacean in their diet.

160. The scare has been blown out of proportion, said John Marchello, professor of animal science at the University of Arizona.

161. At this juncture it should be noted that a considerable proportion of international lending does take this latter form.

162. The proportion w is sometimes referred to as the adjustment parameter.

163. Failure to record consultations is probably fairly widespread, and so this proportion is likely to be characteristic of the total.

164. A considerable proportion of parenting is in the mundane details that women are raised to manage.

165. The proportion reaching adulthood, however, does not usually warrant attempting to raise them as larger live food for fish.

166. The proportion of crystalline material in natural cellulose varies a good deal but may be about thirty or forty percent of the whole.

167. They represent only a tiny proportion of the people who get housing assistance from Washington.

168. A large proportion of our researchers are therefore unlikely to make major contributions to the literature of their research area.

169. The most convincing recent estimate records a fall in that proportion from 77 percent in 1905 to 61 percent in 1916.

170. Like the cabalistic use of hints and allusions, it achieves results seemingly out of proportion to the measures employed.

171. This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost.

172. I felt out of proportion with a short bob and, although striking, it was too neat and tidy for me.

173. The proportion not living with a partner as a part of a couple stayed fairly constant at about one in five.

174. At all ages up to 75, a higher proportion of women are likely to face caring responsibilities than their male counterparts.

175. Foreign bodies A small proportion of vaginal discharges are due to foreign bodies.

176. So long as he was solvent in law, he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts.

177. Only a century ago, a fair proportion of us would have died in childbirth, or been dubbed dowagers by 40.

178. Will they have an astute sense of time, space, design, proportion, ratio, and the like?

179. This proportion is likely to fall in the current year as builders move from buying to renting plant.

180. Women worried about the cosmetic effects of insect bites on the face make up a significant proportion of those seeking medical assistance.

181. Let us suppose that the proportion of any additional income absorbed as leakages is 0.6.

182. It is envisaged that a large proportion of the work of the external assessors will be judgmental in nature.

183. An overwhelming proportion of private rented accommodation is to be found in the major cities, notably London and Liverpool.

184. The resulting slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle.

185. Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.

186. The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease, which in this study had a worse prognosis.

187. We will continue to extend City Challenge and allocate a greater proportion of resources by competitive bidding.

188. In the former case, by employing civilian clerical staff a greater proportion of funds can be allocated for direct policing policies.

189. The corollary of that is that a higher proportion of their income is spent on tobacco products.

190. Furthermore diarrhoea or weight loss were absent in a considerable proportion of infected patients.

191. The proportion receiving aspirin within the first 24 h may be substantially lower.

192. To meet its contractual obligations the proportion of the with-profits fund invested in equities will drop.

193. But in the following two years this proportion rose to an average of more than 10 percent.

194. The proportion of fatal and serious casualties to pedestrians fell, from 24 percent to 22 percent.

195. Rural areas supplied not only agricultural products but also a considerable proportion of manufacturing output.

196. Between 1985 and 1994 the proportion of university students who also had completed apprenticeships grew from 21 percent to 30 percent.

197. There were the violent outbursts, way out of proportion to any wrong done, and constant verbal abuse.

198. A detailed study of the Marketing Mix comprises a substantial proportion of the total content of this manual.

199. In that year the proportion of convicted adult males given a custodial sentence had reached a low of 15 percent.

200. Because these would offend canons of justice which find acceptance among a large proportion of the population.

201. They merely pave the way for an increasing proportion of those emissions to come from the burning of imported coal.

202. When the authors looked at the proportion of the community experiencing vulnerability factors, important social class differences emerged.

203. There will also be an increase in the proportion of total energy demand accounted for by coal.

204. The high proportion of adults with cystic fibrosis in non-manual occupations may reflect selection or response bias.

205. Mate fidelity between breeding seasons is relatively low(), so a high proportion of the population re-pair each year.

206. The financial constraints on wives are also not so serious, as an increasing proportion of married women are in full-time work.

207. Belfast city council reduced rents in Smithfield market by a similar proportion.

208. Likewise, the scare associated with the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was blown out of proportion.

209. The number of symptoms was computed for each subject and the groups were compared for the proportion having 1 and 2 symptoms.

210. Apart from farmers, even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force.

211. Intermediate indicator - to reduce the proportion of low income tenants living in substandard accommodation.

212. Many Christians accept the fact that a proportion of people are homosexual through no fault or voluntary choice of their own.

213. At certain times, banks may decide that it is prudent to hold a bigger proportion of liquid assets.

214. The most relevant feature is the high proportion of multinational corporations in Britain.

215. These findings also reflect the higher proportion of elderly patients with colonic disease.

216. This was coupled with an increased faecal bile acid concentration and proportion of secondary faecal bile acids.

217. A richer alternative is a small proportion of ground almonds.

218. She needed a sit down, a cup of strong coffee, and a chance to get the whole thing in proportion.

219. A large proportion of the new money has been spent to improve access for scientists.

220. Even so, as Table 4.1 shows, wholesale funding remains a comparatively small proportion of total liabilities.

221. The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year.

222. The substantial proportion of Cabernet makes for a slightly more elegant wine, with a delicious combination of spice and blackcurrant fruit.

223. Thus a considerable proportion both of paintings and drawings has recently been widely seen.

224. Seats are divided between the parties according to the proportion of the vote they win in the constituency.

225. The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined.

226. The whole thing, of course, is being blown up out of all proportion by the Western media.

227. By the early nineties a significant proportion of young radicals had adopted Marxist ideas.

228. Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance. Osho 

229. A large proportion of meat and poultry food products move in interstate commerce.

230. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. Vince Lombardi 

231. The texture is mainly determined by the proportion of coarse grains-the clastics-as well as their size and shape.

232. Our own recent studies have shown an increased proportion of secondary biliary bile acids in patients with colorectal cancer.

233. Only a proportion of them are successful and the rest must struggle as best they can to obtain mates.

234. Severing the umbilical cord between landlords and peasants vastly increased the proportion of the population for which the centre was directly responsible.

235. Such survivors, after all, form by far the greatest proportion of patients with coronary disease.

235. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

236. This group has a high doctor-patient contact rate but also includes a proportion of patients with unstable or brittle asthma.

237. Otley found that a rising proportion of senior army officers had elite educational backgrounds.

238. The proportion of this energy conversion accounted for by agriculture however, is small, but even this is not exploited.

239. Local authorities are also constrained in the proportion of capital receipts they may use to support capital expenditure.

240. Disputes between natural and adoptive parents are not unusual and a fair proportion of arrangements break down.

241. A large proportion of small claims arise from errors and ambiguities in and omissions from contract documents.

242. Potash shortage is often an induced condition caused by too much nitrogen reducing the potash content to an unbalanced proportion.

243. The proportion of people killed who had blood alcohol concentrations above the limit also fell.

244. Lightning bolts about a hundred miles away are sending out cracks into the sky of awesome proportion.

245. The proportion of discounted seats was adjusted accordingly, down to each flight segment.

246. Female speaker I think it's been blown up out of all proportion.

247. Most animals increase their fuel consumption in proportion to the extra baggage they are carrying, but not the camel.

248. The proportion of women combatants has risen considerably over the last three years.