Sentence examples for portion has been from inspiring English sources
The wage portion has been stagnant for nearly three years.
Cerberus invested nearly $3 billion in Chrysler and GMAC and a significant portion has been written down.
The northern portion has been modified with canals, dikes, and pumping stations and is Florida's principal zone of sugarcane production.
A Wilmslow correspondent has sent me the remains of a crimson geranium, for from each petal a neat semicircular portion has been removed.
The ultimate cost is estimated at $8 billion, but only a small portion has been spent as Congress has held a tight rein on the project.
In many modern analytical procedures, once the test portion has been dissolved, it is diluted to some fixed volume and measured.
But he said that "a good portion have been valuable".
Particularly in mixed neighborhoods in Baghdad, only a small portion have been hired.
Only a small portion have been accepted into the Iraqi police or Army, and the rift between the tribal forces and the government seems to be intensifying.
The Guardian said verification of the attribution of the fresco would be difficult because its central portion had been damaged by dampness and painted over.
Its Dutch-speaking regions were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while the French-speaking portion had been incorporated into the French Empire.
