The phrase "disproportionate of" is not grammatically correct or commonly used in English.
A more appropriate phrase to use would be "out of proportion with" or "disproportionate to." Example: The punishment given to the student was disproportionate to his minor offense.
State lawmakers and civil rights groups began to pay attention in the late 1990s when studies showed that millions of convicted felons — a disproportionate of them racial minorities — had been deprived of the vote, often for life.
(To be fair, Patterson recognized "the inhumanity" of his proposal, as "it involves the separation of families, and of the sexes at marriageable ages"; it would have also left "in the South an enormous disproportionate of male slaves under circumstances most of all calculated to dissatisfy and brutalize them").
It accuses Florida of violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because a disproportionate of those targeted, as part of efforts to cull non-citizens from the voter rolls, are Hispanics.
Any discussion of disproportionate rates of incarceration necessarily includes consideration of the "war on drugs".
It has led to the incarceration of a vastly disproportionate number of people of color.
Duration values were natural log-transformed to reduce the possibility of disproportionate impact of extreme values.
Dye-swap experiments were included to exclude effects of disproportionate incorporation of Cy3- or Cy5-dUTP.
There was no evidence of disproportionate partitioning of benzene into oxygenated HbS or into HbA blood forms.
The doctors speak of a disproportionate number of head injuries - specifically of shrapnel lodged in the brain.
Israel, which has suffered 13 dead, 3 of them civilian, is being accused of a disproportionate use of force.
Naturally, some recipients of this disproportionate share of benefit dollars will resist any change.
