proportion
Example Sentences
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The filmmaker has teased it’s a “brutal, wild comedy of catastrophic proportions,” promising news for fans who wondered why Cruise never made another movie like “Tropic Thunder.”
From Los Angeles Times
It is not clear exactly how many bottles have been sold and what proportion of bottles are affected.
From BBC
And an artificial-intelligence arms race has triggered a capital-spending boom of epic proportions, propelling growth, minting millionaires—and leaving the U.S. stock market even more top-heavy than before.
By analyzing only 40 candidate compositions, the machine learning system identified an alloy design with a much higher proportion of small precipitates than previous attempts.
From Science Daily
Britain built a vast network of wind and solar farms and generates a higher proportion of its power from renewables than most places in the world.
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