The phrase "kept in proportion" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to maintain or retain a proper relationship or balance between two things. An example of using this phrase in a sentence is: "It is important for businesses to keep their expenses in proportion to their revenue in order to maintain profitability." This means that businesses should ensure that their expenses do not exceed their revenue in order to stay financially stable.
"We agreed that it needed to be kept in proportion," said Mr. Nichols, who had final cut on the movie.
But the slapdown of Nadine Dorries and her incoherent proposals about abortion counselling, while important, needs to be kept in proportion.
As the historians were left licking their wounds the editor of the TLS, Peter Stothard, said the issue of poisonous online reviews needed to be kept in proportion.
Such rentals command a premium of as much as 100 percent more than long-term rentals, with the prices usually kept in proportion to hotel charges.
Google has attracted a great deal of attention for deciding to make its Nexus Q, a new media streamer, in San Jose.The reshoring movement has to be kept in proportion.
March 5 2013 March 16 201313 March 5-10: The Jazz Crusaders date back to 1961, and the group's core members — Joe Sample, on keyboards; Wilton Felder, on saxophone and bass; and Wayne Henderson, on trombone — always make sure that the funk-to-jazz ratio is kept in proportion.
The paper demonstrates the importance of what may be termed the stoichiometric principle of innovation, i.e., optimum financial performance requires the resources devoted to product design, process efficiency, investment in plant and in selling, to be kept in strict proportions to each other.
The downside is this: how to get resources to ensure that it is kept in the same proportion that was made during the implementation of the project".
But keep things in proportion.
Be resolute, but keep it in proportion.
After a routine condemnation of phone hacking, he urged the inquiry to keep matters in proportion.
