proportion
Example Sentences
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Some 58% of loans in December were made at interest rates at or below the official benchmark lending rate of 3%, Mr. Wright notes, and that proportion has risen steadily over the past couple years.
As a proportion of Apple’s total sales, $1 billion is small.
However, only a tiny proportion of patients with HPV will develop cancer.
From BBC
The instant of dismissal we would mob the door of Barracks 8, stepping on each others’ heels in our eagerness to get inside, to shrink the world back to understandable proportions.
From Literature
The largest proportion of home deposits still come from people's savings.
From BBC
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