Sentence examples for a like proportion from inspiring English sources

We've stampeded ourselves over a cliff into a yearlong primary campaign climaxing next February 5th, when as many as twenty-two states, representing sixty per cent of the nation's population and a like proportion of the two parties' Convention delegates, will hold their primaries all at once.

While most income variables likely reflect the resources available to the families, a variable like proportion of income from government transfers did not take into account the absolute family income levels which may, in part, be contributing to the different patterns for SGA, spontaneous preterm and postneonatal death.

— MICHAEL D. SHEAR — JOSH HANER DES MOINES — It looks like a similar proportion of evangelical voters is turning out for the caucuses this year, as compared to the four years ago.

'... the vapour, which is secreted into the ventricles of a healthy person, is in like proportion absorbed again by the inhaling veins and that if there be any excess it descends through the bottom of the ventricles to the basis of the skull and into the loose cavity of the spinal marrow.' (Haller, 1747; as quoted by [ 28]; see also Figure 2B for review).

"I call him Drew Breesus because he has sort of taken on a God-like proportion".

Those gamers who have taken pains to uncover the encrypted trysts are probably a high-denominator fraction of the millions who have played the gore-fest; a bit like the proportion of professed "movie buffs" who have actually bothered to sit through all three hours of Citizen Kane.

Mid-engined road cars are inherently well balanced physically, but they often suffer from awkward, flounder-like proportions: a plucky but stunted head, backed by a wide, flattened-out body.

As of August 2016, Harambe is widely regarded to be of cosmic significance, his death half an opening of a Pandora's box of 21st-century ills, half a martyrdom of saint-like proportions.

Scoblic objects: But if there is anything that has been discredited by history, it is the argument that every enemy is Hitler, that negotiations constitute appeasement, and that talking will automatically lead to a slaughter of Holocaust-like proportions.

The defiantly odd driving position helps too, and it's best to remember that first gear is on a dog-leg... It's also so cramped inside that I have no idea how Walter Röhrl – a man of giraffe-like proportions – even fit into it.

Had Paul not been kept safe, it could have turned into a scandal of Benghazi-like proportions.