So the impact of sheltering the rest would be proportionately smaller.

The gain of the richest fifth would be proportionately smaller: just 1.2 percent.

The pie is still the same size - but it's sliced into more pieces, each piece being proportionately smaller.

Women have proportionately smaller hands, longer legs, and shorter torsos than men, in general.

In addition, their reproduction is limited due to the proportionately small number of male corals.

Their teeth, though proportionately small and few, were almost completely immune from caries.

But the commercial banks are far larger, so their risks in the securities industry are proportionately smaller.

The series checks are proportionately smaller these days.

Proportionately smaller items are available for child competitors.

Most styles also manufacture proportionately smaller saddles for children.