The phrase "and take a proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of measuring or calculating a part of a whole in various contexts, such as mathematics, cooking, or statistics.
Example: "To create the recipe, you need to gather all the ingredients and take a proportion of each based on the number of servings."
Alternatives: "and calculate a fraction" or "and determine a ratio".
"They [the MoD] were probably aware that some trainees were not adhering to discipline from an early stage and I wonder why [they had] not at a much earlier stage recognised that and taken a proportion of the trainees out and repatriated them much earlier".
Schools are required to take a proportion of children from "other faiths"; atheism doesn't count.
"There has to be an agreement all across Europe that they all take a proportion of them," he said.
Take a proportion: 2 tablespoons of salt on 1 liter of water.
Retail e-commerce alone (which doesn't include other kinds of transactions that might run through Stripe's system) will be worth nearly $2 trillion globally this year, according to estimates from eMarketer, and over the next two years it will continue to grow at a rate above 20percentt and take an ever-bigger proportion of all commerce (including offline) transactions.
As for the possibility of coalitions in the future, political scientists such as John Curtice have shown that the decline in the number of marginal seats, and the increase of third parties taking a proportion of the total vote, means that hung parliaments are increasingly likely.
Based on a conservative interpretation of this study, we took a proportion of 30% in our study.
Boarding schools tended to be smaller and less academically selective than other direct grant schools, and to take a larger proportion of fee-paying pupils.
Big Brown comes off a Derby win of historic proportions and takes an effective drop in class against a field with very modest credentials.
God doesn't move in such very mysterious ways: research by the Institute for Research in Integrated Strategies is only the latest to find that C of E and Catholic schools take a lower proportion of free-school-meal children than the average for their catchment area.
