Sentence examples for proportions given from inspiring English sources

Sax discovered that it is the proportions given to a column of air vibrating in a sonorous tube, and these alone, that determine the timbre produced.

The critics, including members of Congress and economists and analysts outside of government, said Mr. Greenspan's influence had grown to troubling proportions, given that he does not hold elective office.

Introducing herself as Ms. Astrid (in real life Kate Valentine), she explained to the 200-member audience that Selena Luna, the "Pocket Venus" from Los Angeles, would face off against the East Village's Miss Dirty Martini ("Just call me Dirty — everybody does"), an odalisque of operatic proportions, given name Linda Marraccini.

That, argues Philip K. Verleger Jr., a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, would be "an economic gamble of enormous proportions," given the deplorable state of the Iraqi oil industry, the enormous costs of rebuilding the country, and the uncertainty over the future.

Their spatial distribution is shown in Fig. 4 with proportions given in the key.

Areas with larger proportions given over to aquaculture tended to have lower species richness, abundance and diversity.

By 1999, the proportions giving those responses had changed only slightly.

The event's uneven proportions give the awkward impression of professional tennis players who stumbled upon a tea-set-sized court, shrugged, and said, "Let's do this".

A tangy mixed berry tart, a rich chocolate mousse cake and a yummy tiramisù of gigantic proportions gave it a run for its money.

The law of constant proportions gave a criterion for distinguishing compounds from genuine mixtures.

Obtained results indicate that the model including all input data (slump flow and mixture proportions) gives the best prediction of the compressive strength.