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

As millions of years passed, these combined effects caused the two types of material to gather in different proportions beyond Jupiter's orbit.

From Science Daily • May 26, 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

Botanists at the Connecticut Arboretum declare that the elimination of beautiful native shrubs and wildflowers has reached the proportions of a “roadside crisis.”

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson