Sentence examples for reached the proportion from inspiring English sources

In the central region of the fovea there are cones exclusively; toward its edges, rods also occur, and as successive zones are reached the proportion of rods increases while the absolute density of packing of the receptors tends to decrease.

On Day 40, when the maximum % of strobilation was reached, the proportion of polyps that died without strobilating was 16% ±211%) and 8% (±18%) for 21°C and 23°C, respectively, and zero for the remaining temperatures.

While the swine flu outbreak never reached the proportions that had been feared, scientists now believe the vaccine caused narcolepsy in a small number of patients.

It does not seem, at this point, that alleged misbehavior by officers working for the Brooklyn South narcotics bureau ever reached the proportions of those outsize scandals.

While the swine flu outbreak never reached the proportions that were initially feared, scientists believe that the vaccine, which was given to about 6 million people in Britain, caused narcolepsy in a tiny fraction of patients.

Last weekend's storm, obsessed over like a newborn with a cough by civilians and weathermen alike, never reached the proportions that had been predicted for most of the state.

We live in a consumer culture, and if our appetites have not yet reached the proportions of much of middle America, where everything comes in tubs, buckets and gallons, then we are Olympian in our efforts to catch up.

This mania would never have reached the proportions it did had the Fed and Treasury had a strong-dollar policy.

The recent housing bubble, for instance, could never have reached the proportions it did had it not been for the Greenspan-Bernanke-Paulson policy of cheapening the greenback.

Perhaps if that overly defensive posture had not been taken, problems would not have reached the proportions later found in the September 2010 report, "A Review of the FBI's Investigations of Certain Domestic Advocacy Groups".

These events come as Cubans appear to be increasingly desperate to reach the United States in the wake of thawing bilateral relations that have raised fears that the days are numbered for the special "Wet-Foot, Dry-Foot" immigration policy, though the exodus has not reached the proportions seen in the 1990s when record numbers sought to reach the US by boat.