Sentence examples for portion because from inspiring English sources

You bought me fish and chips for lunch, my own adult portion because I asked for it, in Evans's tiled restaurant, the Alhambra of takeaways.

The crew could not bring in the immense concrete tubing for the underwater portion because the bridges around the channel were too low.

The Council authorized the rest of the streetscape plan in August, but it delayed a vote on the kiosks portion because of heavy opposition from the industry.

Mr. Ozawa scaled down his appearances with the Saito Kinen Orchestra during the festival's December portion because of his ailments, which included esophageal cancer and chronic back problems.

Sources said that while Morgan Sindall might be interested in a handful of the contracts, it was not interested in buying a significant portion because it already has a strong presence in all the areas in which Rok operates.

I didn't test the answering machine portion because no one ever calls me.

Suvir Saran, the owner and a co-executive chef of Devi, an Indian restaurant in the Flatiron district, said he was weighing whether to pare down portions, because he did not think he could raise prices.

In fragmentation tests, the fused silica specimen broke into two major portions because of the creation of artificial defects.

I had began to constrict my portions because I equated thinness with greatness.

I stopped eating enormous portions because I was afraid of future deprivation.

"If it's done really well, you don't want big portions because you think, 'That was so fulfilling,'" he says.