Sentence examples for size ratio from inspiring English sources

Which they easily could, given the impressive fear induced to size ratio they've got going on.

According to the zoo, bear cubs have the smallest infant-to-mother size ratio of any placental mammals at about 1 to 700.

Even though the two species shared a common ancestor only five million years ago, fossil evidence shows that the male-female size ratio in humans has been the same for the last 1.9 million years, Dr. Wrangham said.

The very things the US News list of top colleges prizes – low average class size, ratio of staff to students – mean that any institution that tries to create a cost-effective education will move down the list.

In the monogamous primate species, males are generally the same size as females, but this 1 to 1 size ratio increases with the degree of polygyny, reaching 1.36 to 1 in chimpanzees and 2 to 1 in gorillas and baboons.

By this index, humans are not a monogamous species, because the male-female size ratio is about 1.15 to 1. "We conclude that human males 'expect' perhaps two or three mates," Dr. Jolly writes.

Earlier researchers used far less orthodox approaches to get close to these highly intelligent creatures, whose brain-to-body-size ratio is second only to humans.

"What you're showing there is small class-size ratio and individual teacher contact with kids," said Lance Melton, executive director of the Montana School Boards Association.

They wanted a good "price-to-size ratio," Mr. Lewin said, which meant $1,400 to $1,500 for a two-bedroom.

Most stores in New York don't bother selling ducklings — they're inefficient birds in that the meat-to-size ratio is low — and if they did such protracted preparation would be unthinkable.

Newark Street, on Facebook The tiny music room at this arts cafe is a renowned crucible of experimental music and, says Clark: "It's got the biggest sound-system to room-size ratio I've ever seen".