Sentence examples for proportions about from inspiring English sources

Among the ultra-conservative Tea Party set, climate change scepticism reaches epidemic proportions, about 80% of those on the far right, according to the Pew research centre.

A diplomat in Honduras talks of a natural disaster of "catastrophic proportions", about which the government, he says, is doing "damn all".

George worked for a time in the film industry and could trot out a riveting, confidential story of satyric proportions about so many of the celluloid kings (and queens) of those days.

Billed as comedy "of ethnic proportions" about a British Muslim who discovers he'd been adopted, and that his birth parents were Jewish, "The Infidel" did well enough to worry Kip Jones.

Stretch the electorate to two-thirds of those eligible, or three-quarters, or make voting mandatory, and it has long seemed that the votes would be distributed in roughly equivalent proportions: about half the vote for Democrats, half for Republicans, with some variability reserved for the shape of current events.

"My first thought was to paint it gray and fill it with corn," Mr. Romano said glumly of a dining room whose daunting proportions — about 13 by 17 by 21 feet high — were more suggestive of a silo than an elegant multimillion-dollar penthouse with panoramic views of the Hudson and whatever they call that place on the other side.

The proportions are about twice as much chocolate, by weight, as cream.

Indeed, the standard error of a binomial proportion is about 0.05 for 100 simulated datasets.

There is something comically out of proportion about that.

We need a sense of proportion about this".

"There is something so out-of-proportion about having Alice Munro as my mother," she wrote.