"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
2. usual proportion = zwykła proporcja usual proportion
3. unusual proportion = niezwykła proporcja unusual proportion
  • The controversy over Iraq has reached extraordinary proportions.
  • The country became a treasure house of extraordinary proportions, and everything was scrupulously catalogued.
  • To beat it, I would have to win over, break down, or render useless an extraordinary proportion of its ruling class.
  • "If she were not allowed to work in fashion week, there would be a fine of inordinate, extraordinary proportions," he said.
  • To qualify as a blockbuster, an exhibition must be a crowd-pleaser of extraordinary proportions.
  • They described an exodus of extraordinary proportions from their home towns.
  • And Cyrano's main drawback was also physical, although his nose happens to have been of extraordinary proportions.
  • We've got a problem that is really of extraordinary proportions.
  • This has assumed extraordinary proportions as a political matter, and we just have to get it done.
  • "People here have experienced a natural disaster of extraordinary proportions," Governor Celeste said.
5. odd proportion = dziwna proporcja odd proportion
(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
(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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