But the little man's courage, or foolhardiness, seemed to be an inverse proportion to his size.

Usually, the sweeper got on with people in inverse proportion to their local importance, and the reverse was true.

It is effective in inverse proportion to the size of its environs.

He'd always been willing to help when people needed it, but his enthusiasm usually ran in inverse proportion to any degree of personal risk.

And he measures his success in inverse proportion to the number of trees that have had to be cut down.

If you didn't, it got quite high, in inverse proportion to the contents of your bureau.

As he put it: "The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."

It was the only way to deal with the tension that grew in inverse proportion to the distance from their final destination.

If money is the answer to hunger, try the inverse proportion.

But my power was, as it should be, in inverse proportion to their ages.