Sentence examples for proportionate amount from inspiring English sources

If the index rises, your investment will increase by a proportionate amount.

"Magazines began to calculate how much advertising a designer had paid for and offered a proportionate amount of editorial space.

"There is a proportionate amount of people who work hard and others who just have it handed to them.

It is not known which titles pay more, Lord Black says, but those with a bigger circulation will fund a proportionate amount.

I do, however, spend a proportionate amount of space on the personal, political and artistic history of major novels like "Main Street," and on their cultural impact.

Vitriolic as the attacks are, any successful band is liable to gain a proportionate amount of detractors, and Nickelback have shifted more than 50m records.

President Bush should allocate at least $1 billion to worldwide AIDS prevention in his 2004 budget and should challenge other wealthy countries to contribute proportionate amounts.

In court papers that were filed on Friday and made available yesterday, the lawyers, from the firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, proposed that the buyers and sellers, who say they were victims of a scheme to fix commissions on the part of the two houses, receive proportionate amounts of money based on their purchases and sales.

In the reaction between zinc metal and copper II) ion, standard conditions for zinc and copper metal require simply that both solids be present in contact with the solution; the E° values are not affected by either the total or proportionate amounts of the two metals.

But police forces are supposed to devote "proportionate" amounts of effort to the various cases they're investigating; and given that nobody died or was physically beaten up in the commission of this particular crime, many might argue that no more money should have been spent.

Tanks holding the normal thyroid groups were maintained with proportionate amounts of the respective vehicles (0.05% DMSO and 0.025% ethanol).