The hedge positions usually are of the same size or proportion as the actual positions.
In proportion as the function of a newspaper has developed and its organisation expanded, so have its costs increased.
Leprosy attacks the pygmies in about the same proportion as the natives, but their lack of time sense is a great hindrance to treatment.
Over all, corporations contributed 1.2percentt of their pre-tax profits, the same proportion as the previous year, but down from the highs of the mid-1980's.
But there is still a dimension, expanding in proportion as the future shrinks, in which the ungraspable objects of desire persist.
An outsize column emphasizes the sense of upset proportion as the grand doctors, arranged in an arc, consult their books incredulously or bend to listen to the boy, his face glowing, his back in foreboding shadow.
The whole board and the long piece have to be in exactly the same proportion as the long piece and the short piece".
In the "mousetrap" scene the seemingly mad Hamlet pulls the crown off Claudius's head, prompting a finale of epic proportion, as the Court comments on this act of lèse-majesté.
That is almost exactly the same proportion as the foreign-born share of the labour force, which, say Messrs Davis and Weinstein, reinforces the view that all factor inflows, capital and labour, should be looked at together.
In fact, the rental rate on capital — the amount someone who is trying to lease the use of capital to one of those monopolists receives — actually falls, by the same proportion as the real wage rate.
There were precursors of the cantata in earlier strophic arias (in which the melody for each strophe, or stanza, was varied over a constant bass) and such earlier vocal works of chamber proportion as the late madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi.
