proportion

Example Sentences

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Weight cycling—gaining and losing weight repeatedly—may negatively affect the proportion of fat to muscle, doctors say.

From The Wall Street Journal

It said consumers would take the "from £5.99" claim to mean that large cabin bags would be available for that price "across a significant proportion of flight routes and dates".

From BBC

The split in the proportions of consumers who think jobs are “plentiful” and those who think they are “hard to get” worsened considerably, falling to 3.1, from 8.4 a month ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

The proportion of major planning applications decided on time increased.

From BBC

The engines now have a much greater proportion of their total power output provided by the electrical part of the engine - the split is about 50-50.

From BBC