"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
(18) overall, rough, approximate
Kolokacji: 3
(20) overwhelming, exaggerated
Kolokacji: 2
(21) monstrous, grotesque
Kolokacji: 2
(24) epidemic, pandemic
Kolokacji: 2
1. epidemic proportion = proporcja epidemii epidemic proportion
2. pandemic proportion = pandemiczna proporcja pandemic proportion
  • Disease had reached pandemic proportions, with 3,000,000 dying of typhus alone in 1920.
  • It has since more than doubled, and the disease that was once termed a random outbreak has reached pandemic proportions.
  • AIDS infection started reaching pandemic proportions around 1995.
  • Overweight and obesity are rising medical problems of pandemic proportions.
  • The epidemic, no, one had to state its true proportions, pandemic, had marked everyone, including those lucky enough not to have contracted it.
  • Total volume crime was at almost pandemic proportions by 1993, when Michael Howard took over at the Home Office.
  • There's a delicate balance between letting this spread just so far and having it reach pandemic proportions.
  • The effects of the illness described in "Speech Sounds" are said by Butler to have reached pandemic proportions:
  • Most public health experts believe that this act prevented the disease from reaching pandemic proportions.
  • A contagion that began as an isolated, early '90s outbreak now threatens pandemic proportions.
(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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