Sentence Examples with the word proportion



These have yielded upwards of 4000 implements, weapons and ornaments of bronze, among which were a large proportion of moulds and founders' materials.

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Whatever type of bridge is adopted, the engineer has to ascertain the loads to be carried, and to proportion the parts so that the stresses due to the loads do not exceed limits found by experience to be safe.


A large proportion of them derive their origin from tribes who came from the Himalayan ranges, from Burma or from the Chinese frontier.

Anthropologists, indeed, have recently observed a large proportion of individuals of exceptionally small stature, not found in Sardinia only, but elsewhere in south Italy also; though in Sardinia they are distributed over the whole island, and especially in the southern half.


In proportion to their size they are among the most bloodthirsty of animals, though less so than the weasels.
