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The phrase "hold a proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the relationship between two quantities or when indicating that one quantity is a part of another.
Example: "In this experiment, we need to hold a proportion of 1:3 between the two solutions to achieve the desired reaction."
Alternatives: "maintain a ratio" or "keep a fraction."
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A rule of thumb cited by John Bogle, Vanguard Group's founder, is to hold a proportion of bonds that corresponds to your age.
In this work, we hold a proportion of the elements static, so that the simulated speckle images have both a dynamic and a static component.
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It also scored the second largest opening weekend among films that did not debut at #1. Female audiences accounted for 57% of Frozens total audiences on the first weekend, while family audiences held a proportion of 81%.
Muslims hold a tiny proportion of civil service jobs that are an important route to the middle class here.
That may require it to hold a sizeable proportion of the small company's stock, perhaps 10-20%.
We will also require them to hold a greater proportion of liquid assets, so they can access cash when they find themselves under pressure.
They also need to hold a substantial proportion of assets that are rediscountable at the Bank of England in case of need, and the Bank of England limits their holding of assets other than public sector debt to a maximum of 20 times their capital resources.
If people as a whole decide that they want to hold a larger proportion of their assets in the form of money, and if new money is not created to satisfy this desire, there will be a net desire to sell securities and the price of securities will fall.
Yet firms seem oddly unconfident, choosing to hold a high proportion of assets in an essentially unproductive form rather than investing more assertively in future expansion.Their bosses have been doing the sorts of things that cash-rich firms do: pampering their own shareholders and trying to win over others.
Among various dyes, easily tunable phenothiazine-based dyes hold a large proportion and achieve impressive photovoltaic performances.
Bottom water reservoirs are widely distributed on earth and hold a large proportion of oil reserves (Islam 1993).
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