Sentence examples for ratios might from inspiring English sources

A rating system based on objective factors, like debt-to-G.D.P. ratios, might plausibly have the U.S. rated even lower than AA+.

Re "Earnings Are Worse Without the Icing" (Market Watch, July 20), which looked at how companies' price-to-earnings ratios might grow if adjusted for special charges, options accounting and pension assumptions: Cendant should not have been included in the chart that projected such adjustments for estimated 2003 P/E ratios.

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists rejected that proposal.Prabhat Jha, of the University of Toronto, pointed out that skewed sex ratios might be caused by things other than selective abortion, such as higher migration rates of women who are expecting a son.

Similarly, sex ratios might become grossly skewed in countries with a strong preference for male children.

The sulfur tolerance observed for catalysts with certain Ru to Pt ratios might be due to sulfur and hydrogen intra-particle spillover.

However, there are other studies which support our findings [1 3, 10] and there are plausible mechanisms by which increased workload/staffing ratios might decrease survival.

We thus considered whether a threshold value of source amplitude ratios might be useful to discriminate non-seismic pulses and long-period noise from seismic signals.

It is suggested that varying ionic ratios might be an effective and rather simple way of achieving a degree of particle size control.

Though they have alluringly low P/Es, the ratios might just fall still lower as shares are dumped on the market.

For example, by biasing inheritance toward the production of one sex over another, altered sex ratios might eventually cause a population to peter out.

The unemployed become discouraged, and ultimately the employment to population ratio might take a permanent hit".