Sentence examples for proportion you from inspiring English sources

There's a classical proportion; you could be in Rome.

"You earn, you save a proportion, you always have the future in mind.

It is possible to nominate more than one beneficiary, and decide in what proportion you want each person to benefit.

To put that figure in proportion, you are 20 times more likely to get lung cancer if you smoke tobacco than if you don't.

But that's just it – while at the time I could only stand in dismay as the mighty Eagles fell foul to a human error of, in my opinion, cataclysmic proportion, you can hardly blame one or two sets of eyes.

At his side hangs his gargantuan right hand – out of proportion, you suddenly realise, not just in scale but in the mesmerising, exaggerated attention to detail the sculptor lavished on it: those veins throbbing in the marble, those knobbly knuckles and wrinkled skin on the vast thumb.

"Once a suit is proportioned, you can fool the eye other ways".

Cruelty and kindness, said Kingsley Amis, can be mixed in whatever proportions you wish, like coffee and milk.

You can solve all of this, though, by regularly rebalancing, the industry's term for putting your investments back in the proportions you originally set.

But the best anecdotal evidence suggests that this kind of thing isn't happening in nearly the proportions you might expect.

I'd rather consider choux in less authoritarian terms: as long as you stay true to the spirit to the recipe and add the flour, milk, butter and egg in more or less the right proportions, you'll be fine.