proportions

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So, why might there be higher proportions of children with SEN in the schools that are closing?

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Refineries are designed and built around refining crude into certain proportions of products.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

All of these are served in ample proportions in this richly funny if schematic comedy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

“We will tweak the proportions of sections. Some might be bigger, some might be smaller, especially after we open, and kind of see what people are responding to in the neighborhood,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Even today, artists and architects intuitively know that objects that have this ratio of length to width are the most aesthetically pleasing, and the ratio governs the proportions of many works of art and architecture.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife