Sentence examples for unusual proportion from inspiring English sources

An unusual proportion of crib deaths occur in child care centers, especially those in homes where care givers may not know to put babies to sleep on their backs, a study has found.

Although the predictable big thinkers are represented here -- Paul Wolfowitz, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the editors of US Weekly -- an unusual proportion of this year's crop of ideas comes from lone-wolf thinkers of one stripe or another: basement tinkerers, armchair philosophers, mad scientists.

position, comprising a significant and unusual proportion of the respective marketplace.

An unusual proportion of TCS genes were orphaned or in complex clusters, and a high proportion of predicted soluble HKs compared to other plant-associated bacteria are reported.

These data are reminiscent of a previous report by Soyer et al., [ 30] which noted a potentially significant role for positive selection based on an unusual proportion of non-synonymous substitutions across the genomes of several host-adapted serovars including S. Cholerasuis, S. Typhimurium, and the agent of Typhus, serovar S. Typhi (28).

Strain MAFF303099 shows an unusual proportion of downregulated genes in response to heat shock compared with several other bacteria and archaea that, in general, show a similar number of genes under- and overexpressed following a temperature upshift (though different heat shock conditions are compared).

John Fremer, the president of Caveon, said the findings did not indicate an issue of unusual proportions.

"Ren?oivin's creations were revolutionary by their imposing size, their unusual proportions and their bright colors," Ms. Chassard said.

Inside, the unusual height of the old workshops (high because they painted theatre scenery here) has been exploited to create galleries of unusual proportions.

Sarah Ruhl, among the freshest and most distinctive playwrights to emerge in recent years, mixes whimsy and feeling in unusual proportions, with beguiling results (2 10).

Rayburn, according to one account, wore "a sombrero of unusual proportions, the brim, adorned with small bells that jingled with each motion of the horse's gait.