Sentence examples for proportion have from inspiring English sources

Only a small proportion have formally converted to Judaism.

That line and proportion have a mysterious effect.

Americans, with their deep, vestigial sense of proportion, have reacted.

A good proportion have to do with government corruption, whether it involves money or power.

Three-quarters of the nation's 26 million people cannot read, and an equal proportion have no safe drinking water.

The same proportion have to stand on services out of Birmingham, while 16% have to stand on departures from Leeds.

To make up the difference, seven out of 10 students rely on their parents, and around the same proportion have a part-time job.

In joint work with Arul Shankar and also with Christopher Skinner, Bhargava came to the surprising conclusion that a positive proportion of elliptic curves have only one rational point and a positive proportion have infinitely many.

If so, most people with terminal heart failure would receive assist pumps and a few would have heart transplants, just as most people with kidney failure are on dialysis and a small proportion have transplants.

Analogously, in the case of hyperelliptic curves of degree 4, Bhargava showed that a positive proportion of such curves have no rational points and a positive proportion have infinitely many rational points.

It's not simply a majority of women who believe sexism is common, a very high proportion have first-hand experience of it; 47% of British women have encountered sexism in the street and for 13% this is a weekly occurrence.