proportion

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Researchers who sampled the mixture report a pronounced chocolate flavor that varies depending on the proportion of honey to cocoa shells.

From Science Daily

Gwynedd has the highest proportion of Welsh speakers in the country, according to the 2021 Census, which also showed a fall in the proportion of Welsh speakers in Wales.

From BBC

The plain old S&P 500 represents those companies in proportion to their market capitalization.

From The Wall Street Journal

Neville also says that gold is very expensive, whether using valuation metrics such as inflation-adjusted price, multiple of extraction cost, other commodity relatives or proportion of global wealth.

From MarketWatch

As the animal grew from dog sized to horse sized to giraffe sized and eventually to enormous proportions, its place in the ecosystem shifted at each stage.

From Science Daily