"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
(14) perfect, ideal
Kolokacji: 2
1. alarming proportion = niepokojąc proporcję alarming proportion
2. frightening proportion = przerażając proporcję frightening proportion
3. formidable proportion = potężna proporcja formidable proportion
4. terrifying proportion = przerażając proporcję terrifying proportion
  • Puns that would provoke a private wince bring apublic outcry of terrifying proportions.
  • "A brutal massacre of terrifying proportions," the FL-Sixteen freelancer had growled.
  • But now the Governor and the Legislature face fiscal problems of terrifying proportions.
  • The Hindus were much more interested in devising elaborate cosmic cycles of vast and terrifying proportions.
  • But religious fanaticism was a lethal bomb of quite terrifying proportions.
  • Then you'll be on a fire and see something new and unpredictable, a wake-up call of terrifying proportions.
  • The noise and the shaking had reached terrifying proportions.
  • His head qualified as a grotesque caricature of terrifying proportions.
  • Mr President, it has already been said that, after a war which engulfed the country in misery, Mozambique is now facing a natural disaster of terrifying proportions.
  • Once during the night he dreamed, his right hand touching and fondling himself, bringing himself to an erection of terrifying proportions.
(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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