Sentence examples for disproportionate quantities from inspiring English sources

Standing beneath the store cupboard's "great wall of soup" (all food banks get disproportionate quantities of tinned soup) Jean Burnside, chief executive of the Key Project in South Tyneside, told them: "In 2008, before the financial crisis we gave out 26 food packets, by 2013 this had increased to 339.

Mountain lions in the study area ingested disproportionate quantities of bone from very young prey.

Although governments may try to cram public debt down the throats of local savers (by using, for example, their rising influence over banks to force them to hold a disproportionate quantity of government paper), they will eventually find themselves having to pay much higher interest rates as well.

The disproportionate quantity of dissolved ions in irrigation water changes the physical and chemical properties of soil for plants and agricultural works consequently tumbling the production efficiency.

The elderly consume a disproportionate quantity of drugs, with those older than 65 taking, on average, two to six prescribed and one to three nonprescription drugs at any one time (Routledge et al. 2004).

They get a disproportionate amount of attention.

The decline in young, dead donors has had a disproportionate effect on quantity as well as quality.

Indeed, counting has become increasingly problematic to the point that a competition seems to be taking place in which the apparent superiority of a newborn screening program or private laboratory is staked on the sole basis of quantity, with disproportionate consideration given to quality.

Shortly above those exposure levels, the model predicts a disproportionate increase in cellular ROS quantity which is consistent with an in vitro EC50 of about 40 μM for CsA in RPTECs.

These are inevitable in a successful economy but exacerbated by the shortage of housing supply, by planning restrictions that limit the quantity of building land, by the disproportionate concentration of investment in the southeast, and by the excessive incomes of top earners.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights criticised the de facto government for "disproportionate" repression of demonstrators and curbs on the media.Argentina's Supreme Court ruled that possession of small quantities of marijuana for personal use should not be treated as a criminal offence.