"proportion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

proportion sustantivo

sustantivo + proportion
Kolokacji: 18
proportion of one's income • proportion of students • proportion of people • proportion of one's citizens • body proportion • ...
proportion + verbo
Kolokacji: 32
proportion rises • proportion increases • proportion falls • proportion varies • proportion declines • ...
verbo + proportion
Kolokacji: 17
reach proportions • contain a proportion • assume proportions • make up a proportion • blow out of proportion • ...
adjetivo + proportion
Kolokacji: 125
large proportion • high proportion • small proportion • significant proportion • great proportion • direct proportion • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 27
(4) direct, inverse
Kolokacji: 2
(8) certain, definite
Kolokacji: 2
(10) mythic, mythical, legendary
Kolokacji: 3
(11) historic, momentous
Kolokacji: 2
1. historic proportion = historyczna proporcja historic proportion
2. momentous proportion = doniosła proporcja momentous proportion
  • Britain has initially excluded itself from the currency, the inception of which has been cast as an event of momentous proportions for the 290 million people in the countries taking part.
  • And if that much never came to be for herself, at least the rest of the world would be safe from a butcher of momentous proportions.
  • Mr. Patinkin's recent realization that he can pursue a solo recording and concert career in addition to one in the theater and movies has seemed to him a discovery of momentous proportions.
  • She could hear that he had something of momentous proportions to tell her.
  • "But it takes on momentous proportions when you look back and see what moral capital she had at the beginning, and to what extent it is now depleted and not translated into effective reforms."
  • Another Goodbye The Westbury Music Fair holds a farewell of more momentous proportions: the "One More for the Road" tour of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, who insist that this current tour is "our last tour" after more than four decades of star status.
  • The board must now resume a search that has already taken on momentous proportions, with clashing egos and almost operatic drama.
  • For an imagined encounter of momentous proportions, "The Meeting" is, theatrically, a nonevent, more debate than drama, although each man tries to win over the other to his own credo and each admits his own power.
(14) perfect, ideal
Kolokacji: 2
(18) overall, rough, approximate
Kolokacji: 3
(20) overwhelming, exaggerated
Kolokacji: 2
(21) monstrous, grotesque
Kolokacji: 2
(24) epidemic, pandemic
Kolokacji: 2
(25) elegant, graceful, exquisite
Kolokacji: 3
(26) harmonious, balanced
Kolokacji: 2
(27) constant, variable
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + proportion
Kolokacji: 10
of proportions • in proportion • to proportions • out of proportion • for a proportion • ...

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