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And last year, the proportion of students getting top A-level results reached a record high, with 28.3% of all grades across England, Wales and Northern Ireland marked at A* or A.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The bottom fifth of local authorities for the average proportion of children able to swim 25m were all urban areas.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The proportion of Americans earning more than their parents has dropped precipitously in the past 50 years and is expected to drop further.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The proportion of auto liability and medical claims auto insurers resolved last year that they didn’t pay out on, according to a Journal analysis of thousands of company regulatory filings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Stamitz’s music is at best agreeable, but he does demonstrate an important first step in the process of creating proportion from basic melodies.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

These proportions may shift in the future because of new caps on borrowing, according to Castellano.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

After about a month and a half, the harassment ended when he was interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR’s Weekend Edition, which expanded his digital presence to national proportions.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

The 2022 Ofcom survey recorded statistics of people who loudcast by ethnicity, and it found higher proportions of people from non-white backgrounds said they watched videos in public without headphones.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Over time, those conditions erase the natural imbalance between the mirror image forms of the molecules, leaving them in equal proportions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

The proportions of the place are all off, and not in a provocative way.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

He’s a ridiculously proportioned savant who dribbles like a point guard, blocks shots like a center and puts up stat lines matched only by Hall-of-Famers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

And then there are the paintings and canvases, too small and oddly proportioned compared to the wall.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

Rick Owens mixed gothic elements with a touch of the bizarre, featuring oversized rubber boots that Owens himself described as outlandishly proportioned.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

The funds would be proportioned based on a voucher system that would let residents choose which outlets should get the most funding.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

An inch shorter than Joe, and more slightly built, he was nevertheless a fine physical specimen and striking to look at, with fine, regular features; gracefully proportioned limbs; and an open, eager face.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

If you were of the Larkin persuasion – that it was all downhill from Charlie Parker onwards – the proportioning might have been music to your ears.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2014

In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament.

From Time Magazine Archive

He devoted his attention simply to taking the enormously dramatic life of his subject, proportioning it justly, and letting it go its own exciting way in the theatre.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reason, by the loss of innocence reduced to its natural nakedness, is just beginning to discover the world; and God is sparing in His demands, proportioning them to human experience .

From Time Magazine Archive

The student must keep to the dimensions marked on the drawings, and where no sizes are given he must use his own judgment in proportioning the parts.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by David Allan Low