Sentence examples for approximate proportion from inspiring English sources

"For BAME judges, the quota could reflect the approximate proportion of adults [from ethnic backgrounds] in the population as a whole or in the working population, or by reference to some other appropriate pool".

The non-dimensional coupling parameter is found to scale in approximate proportion to the device's characteristic length, however, and so although miniaturised devices are less efficient, greater efficiency can be obtained with large devices, such as those used to control civil engineering structures.

The origin of these differences is based on three main aspects: Firstly, the processing time tends to maintain an approximate proportion with the number of clients served by the system.

The distributed OPF algorithm presents similar convergence properties, with a rapid, early decrease in error and full convergence taking an increasing number of iterations in approximate proportion to the network size.

To date, researchers have mainly used the hypothesis of reduced energy costs to account for improved isolated high-speed actions [33] through a reduction in aerodynamic resistance in approximate proportion to the square of the velocity (e.g., when cycling, running, or throwing objects) [1, 5, 32].

In the 1990s it was estimated that humans were using 40 50% of the globally available freshwater in the approximate proportion of 70% for agriculture, 22% for industry, and 8% for domestic purposes with total use progressively increasing.

All expected cell types were positively identified within the microtissue and importantly the approximate proportions of each cell type was consistent with the anticipated starting cell ratios of 4 2 1 (cardiomyocytes:fibroblasts:endothelial cells).

Chinese alchemists discovered the recipe for what became known as black powder in the 9th century ad; this was a mixture of finely ground potassium nitrate (also called saltpetre), charcoal, and sulfur in approximate proportions of 75:15:10 by weight.

Specifically, the notes -- which set forth "65percentsoft/35percentent hard" opposite the term "media fund" -- appear to reflect a phrase that may have been used at the meeting to describe the approximate proportions of hard and soft money used by the D.N.C. to purchase television ads during this period.

Four casein phosphoproteins, αS1-, αS2-, β-, and k-casein, in approximate proportions of 4 1 4 1 by weight, respectively, comprised the colloid.

The table shows the expected progenitor for the main types of core collapse supernova, and the approximate proportions of each in the local neighbourhood.