"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
3. tragic proportion = tragiczna proporcja tragic proportion
4. apocalyptic proportion = apokaliptyczna proporcja apocalyptic proportion
  • It could be attacks of apocalyptic proportions; attacks aimed at obliterating our civilization as we know it-unless we act decisively.
  • Surtur was depicted as an immense and malevolent elemental fire demon whose power was of apocalyptic proportions.
  • The present struggle between Egypt and Syria is assuming in his eyes apocalyptic proportions.
  • If we do go up in a fireball of apocalyptic proportions, at least you'll have the satis-faction of knowing that the universe has been saved.
  • We'll have to have something else - a new cliffhanger, a new personal drama inflated to apocalyptic proportions.
  • The dangers in ozone layer destruction are of apocalyptic proportions.
  • Or," he muttered in a lower voice, "there might be a nuclear fireball of apocalyptic proportions.
  • Murphy takes this phenomenon one step further-by imagining an event of apocalyptic proportions.
  • Soon the terror, already difficult to bear during the last years of Obote's rule, assumed apocalyptic proportions.
  • In a way, Q's intervention only confirmed the ailing scientist's conviction that he was on the verge of a breakthrough of apocalyptic proportions.
(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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