Sentence examples for bit out of proportion from inspiring English sources

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Some of the stuff may have gotten blown a little bit out of proportion.

I mean that's capitalism isn't it?" Ulf Hartmann, in his 40s, investment banker in global markets "Some of the compensations are a bit out of proportion.

I was sentenced in the court where the Krays were sentenced, which I thought was a bit out of proportion, maybe they wanted to make an example of me, but that's the law".

She did not say there were no concerns at all, certainly her neighbour had some, maybe a bit out of proportion but still – all Ghizlane could say was that she never did.

Scott initially wrote, half in Afrikaans and half in English, on Facebook: "I am dying of laughter, this is a bit out of proportion, well, u know what they say... there's no such thing as bad publicity!

"I think that went a bit out of proportion," Rangel says, referring to the widespread praise he received after it emerged he had driven around Swansea for an hour, on a bitterly cold Friday night in January, with his wife, Nikki, looking for homeless people to give sandwiches to after they had discovered that the coffee shop they were in was going to throw the food away.

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Annoyances: trivial insults that prompt an out-of-proportion reaction.

It was a little bit blown out of proportion, but with our help, too".

"I'd say at times a little bit blown out of proportion.

With that said, it also seems like the importance of Flash to the masses might be getting a bit blown out of proportion.

If, for example, we went into a period of deflation where everything, both earnings and prices, was falling, then putting up pensions by 2.5% is a bit out of all proportion.

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