Sentence examples for a generous proportion of from inspiring English sources

It has historically paid a generous proportion of its profits to shareholders in the form of dividends.

It was like playing a flesh-covered piano') but also a generous proportion of material which is recycled from earlier books, as if Milligan had decided that his commitment to conservation should be put into practice on the page.

The sense of a guiding hand behind the streetscape, and the generous proportions of its prewar apartments, appeal to design-conscious buyers.

The effect is edgy with a hint of tacky, and the low ceilings make the lobby a touch claustrophobic, but this is all made up for by the generous proportions of the rooms themselves.

The aroma of onions cooking is drool-inducing, as are the generous proportions of the room.

With the help of the touch screens, it is possible to see the same image move among different formats, from the cramped front page of The New York Post to the more generous proportions of PM, which had superb print quality and often treated Weegee himself as part of the news, to the relatively text-free spreads of "Naked City".

Besides the shore home rental, he played a recital of generous proportions at the Trenton War Memorial in 1940: German heavies, Chopin lightweights, some of his own works -- one to be heard Thursday in a recital by Mr. Ohlsson -- and two big Liszt pieces.

The idea of creating a Stalinist-era interior gradually took shape as he knocked down the walls that divided the apartment into small, dark rooms, revealing its original generous proportions, a hallmark of 1930s Russian Art Deco.

But perhaps the most spectacular lot is Lucian Freud's "Benefits Supervisor Resting" (1994), a monumental nude depicting a woman of extremely generous proportions sprawled with Dionysian abandon across a ragged couch.

The architecture of the long gallery is itself a daunting demonstration of spatial majesty – an unfurling of absurdly generous proportions – and the maps mirror its grandeur.

Ives's Third Symphony is a generous work of modest proportions, inclusive in its embrace of hymns, folk music and dances, yet highly idiosyncratic in how they are put together.