"proportion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Crime has increased a bit over the years, but it has never reached alarming proportions here.
- She seemed to have no serious injuries, save for a wrist that was already swelling to alarming proportions.
- So, too, are an alarming proportion of the victims of police misconduct.
- "In Havana it is a scandal taking on more alarming proportions every day."
- Corporate debt in the 1980's has reached alarming proportions.
- But the truck had a limited amount of space, and the list in her head had grown to alarming proportions.
- Since the start of the industrial age, the problems have only worsened to assume alarming proportions.
- The current levels of humanitarian distress in south and central Somalia have reached alarming proportions.
- In the same way, human trafficking in Africa has reached alarming proportions.
- It can only exacerbate the problem, which is already, as you know, of alarming proportions.
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