Sentence examples for proportion or a from inspiring English sources

Does the word "aggressive" in the last sentence of the paragraph mean a growing proportion or a growing cancer?

The government should be dependent on "the great body of the people," James Madison wrote, and not "an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it".

Currently most coal combustion simulations treat the devolatilization products as a mixture of light gases with a given proportion or a postulate substance, which is obviously different from the reality.

Common types of study designs in medical research are estimation of a proportion or a mean in a defined population; and hypothesis testing for a difference in two qualitative (proportions) or two quantitative outcomes (means).

As I have said before, no one in authority from Doncaster magistrates court to the offices of the director of public prosecutions has shown they possess a sense of proportion or a glimmer of an understanding of how social media work.

We assume that only a 50% reduction in productivity is required to undertake effective stewardship; however any other proportion or a variable proportion could be used.

The size of a sample needed for statistical generalizability depends, among other factors, on how pre-chosen variables are distributed, whether a study aims to estimate a proportion or find a causal relationship, and the total number of pre-selected variables in the model.

Incidence can be measured as a proportion or as a rate.

For example, people would come to me with a current animation figure that needed to be changed somehow: into a different proportion or even a different species!

The proportion getting an A or A* rose by 0.7 percentage points to 8.6%, but the proportion getting an A* was unchanged at 1.4%.

The lyrics to the track No Woman, No Crime and the Wikipedia entry suggest either a spoof of Nathan Barley proportions or a terrible Shoreditch wankfest".