Sentence examples for a ratio about from inspiring English sources

Spirals, which recur in Mr. Chatterley's work, are a representation of the ancient Greek concept of the golden mean, a ratio, about 1.6 to 1, that is found throughout nature.

The S&P 500 is trading at a stratospheric 28 times its earnings over the last 12 months, a ratio about double the norm for this century.

It is found that OLP affects 0.5% to 2% of the adult population, especially the adults over 40 years old, where OLP tends to affect women rather than men with a ratio about 1.4 : 1 [ 2, 3].

Declining stocks outpaced advancers by a ratio of about 19 to 12 on the New York Stock Exchange and 21 to 12 on Nasdaq, where 1.2 billion shares traded.

In 2010, the country had just 0.02 doctors per 1,000 people, compared with the UK, which has a ratio of about 2.8 per 1,000.

Advancers outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by a ratio of about 4 to 1, while on the Nasdaq about two stocks rose for every one that fell.

Most CD-rewritable drives copy data at a ratio of about eight to one, meaning that they can record about 60 minutes of music (or 545 megabytes of data) onto a compact disc in about 7 1/2 minutes.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones by a ratio of about 12 to 5 on the New York Exchange.

I predict bafflement and enthusiasm in a ratio of about 3 1.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones by a ratio of about nine to seven.

UBS would have needed a ratio of about 20% to have avoided breaching the 4% floor.