Sentence examples for respectable proportions from inspiring English sources

The pelmet skirt has disappeared up its own waistband, shorts have assumed more respectable proportions and idiot neck-breaking shoes are, by and large, over.

Some traveled great distances, even beyond the empire: trade with India, for example, reached respectable proportions once the nature of the monsoon was understood, and the Red Sea was opened to Roman shipping.

The institution grew organically to its respectable proportions today, the question now - for him - is to classify the kind of artists we talk about that from this generation, to find a definition for the 'urban artist'.

Over the course of my 10 years in the system, I ended up being diagnosed with a respectable proportion.

Some of these visitors, to be sure, came from the near-by States of Georgia and Alabama in the summer, when Florida is cooler even though it is slightly farther south, but a respectable proportion were winter visitors from the frozen North.

But even among students without any experiences abroad, a respectable proportion (33.0%) was dissatisfied with the supply of learning opportunities in global health at their medical school.

The major finding of our study is the demonstration that the presence of subclinical myocardial necrosis in a respectable proportion of stable patients with diabetes mellitus has heightened long-term adverse cardiovascular event risk.

Repeat the above 2 steps, interchanging between jobs, tasks and wants, soon you'll have completed a respectable proportion of your list.

I doubt the proportion committed by "respectable" folk is different in 2008 from what it was in 1908.

("Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor").

Balance sheets turn respectable.