Sentence examples for an ratio from inspiring English sources

The phrase "an ratio" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a ratio" because "ratio" begins with a consonant sound.
Example: "The study found that the ratio of students to teachers was 15 to 1."
Alternatives: "a proportion" or "a relationship".

Exact(1)

This is clearly reflected in a 3.2 times PER, although on an ratio of enterprise value to net operating profit after taxes of 10.0 times (which more accurately reflects the balance sheet stresses), it does not look so cheap".

The Guardian - Business

Similar(59)

It's more a ratio than a balance.

Huffington Post

A ratio above 1 indicates an expanding market.

The New York Times

A ratio below 1 indicates a shrinking market.

The New York Times

A ratio above 1 indicates a growing market.

The New York Times

Such a ratio is sometimes called a "Jaccard coefficient".

TechCrunch

JPMorgan (JPM) has a tangible capital ratio of 6.2%, while Goldman Sachs GSS) has a ratio of 8.1% and BB&T (BBT) has a ratio of 11.5%.

Forbes

But Pfizer had a negative leverage ratio of 0.3:1 where Bank of America had a ratio approaching 10 1.

Harvard Business Review

A ratio of 2.5 sounds awful.

The Economist

It reported a ratio of 16.1.

The New York Times

Morgan Stanley has a ratio of only 0.48.

The Economist

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