"proportion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- With far more whites than minorities among the least affluent families, the proportion of minority students would shrink if affirmative action disappeared.
- Between 2000 and 2006, the proportion of monolingual Dutch families shrank from 9.5% to 7.0%, whereas bilingual families shrank from 9.9% to 8.6%.
- If turnout in other states is any indication, their proportion will probably shrink this year without Mr. Jackson on the ballot.
- But even as the proportion of Puerto Ricans shrank, many of their replacements came from the Dominican Republic.
- Last week that proportion shrank to one-fifth, and 92 percent said peace was impossible if East Jerusalem did not become the Palestinian capital.
- With more competition from other ways of living, the proportion of married couples has been shrinking for decades.
- But the proportion - though not the total - of people out of work five weeks or less shrank to 37.1 percent, contracting for the fourth straight month.
- A major complaint of the Serbs is that their proportion of the Kosovo population is steadily shrinking.
- Furthermore, the proportion of live cattle to total exports has shrunk in recent years from 16 % to about 10 %.
- The proportion of companies paying higher prices, though still a majority, shrank.
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