Sentence examples for proportion some from inspiring English sources

I don't think we should get out of proportion some of these issues.

"Things are definitely taken more seriously by teachers and students, and now things are probably taken out of proportion some of the time," said Jeff Delaney, a 16-year-old senior at Montclair High School.

The reality is that building a successful and sustainable social enterprise will be a slog and it's important to keep a sense of proportion – some days will be better than others, but it's about every step.

PERHAPS it is a search for order, for scale, for the rules of proportion, some impulse to keep track, but human beings seem hard-wired to take measure of the world around them.

In the past few years, several thousand of them have sought asylum in the EU, particularly in Finland and Britain.Though Romania has the largest number of Gypsies (also known as Roma) in Europe, Slovakia has the highest proportion: some say they are nearly a tenth of Slovakia's population of 5m.

Maine and Nebraska are the only two states that proportion some of their electors.

Then it got to epic proportions, some more phallic, some more testicular or ovoid in shape," she said.

The image captures an area of almost indescribable proportions, some sixty-one thousand light-years from end to end, encompassing more than a hundred million stars.

The dilemma is how do you do that without handing Putin a victory of huge proportions?" Some in Moscow are alarmed, too.

As many African Americans had European ancestry in varying proportions, some appeared visibly European.

They're also a cinch to make, and very forgiving when it comes to proportions: some cooks use more quark than potato; some equal weights; some more potato than quark.